Avoid Airdrop Scam on Trust Wallet via Links - page 2.

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Quote from: Jating on August 25, 2023, 07:48:26 AM

Quote from: DapanasFruit on August 25, 2023, 06:08:28 AM

I am expecting that people behind TrustWallet should be one step ahead of possible scam or intrusion into the secured wallet, otherwise this will make people really scared of using the services of the wallet. At any rate, we should always understand that there is no 100% safe platform in the crypto space as there are so many hackers and fraudsters dedicating their lives just to victimize others and get rich in the process. We should always be careful at all time...and take a time to consider whether an airdrop is really what it says it is or a gateway to hell.

In the real word that should happen, but we all know that it's the other way around, hackers or scammers are always one step of the game here. And it seems that they are really doing a good job at casing and taking advantage of not just trust wallet, but any other crypto related things that they can get their hands and scam people of their hard earn money.

So yeah, the moral lesson here is just be careful and not to trust anyone here in this ecosystem. And everyone should know how to practice security hygiene, otherwise you will fell victim to this criminals.

Even if no action has been made by trust wallet owners still its up to the users discretion to avoid getting scam since they should think more before participating on any random airdrops. Newbie is their primary target so newbies should need to be more careful on what they are entering since losing money due to scam is commonly happen to them if they are not so careful picking airdrops posted anywhere.

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Quote from: DapanasFruit on August 25, 2023, 06:08:28 AM

I am expecting that people behind TrustWallet should be one step ahead of possible scam or intrusion into the secured wallet, otherwise this will make people really scared of using the services of the wallet. At any rate, we should always understand that there is no 100% safe platform in the crypto space as there are so many hackers and fraudsters dedicating their lives just to victimize others and get rich in the process. We should always be careful at all time...and take a time to consider whether an airdrop is really what it says it is or a gateway to hell.

In the real word that should happen, but we all know that it's the other way around, hackers or scammers are always one step of the game here. And it seems that they are really doing a good job at casing and taking advantage of not just trust wallet, but any other crypto related things that they can get their hands and scam people of their hard earn money.

So yeah, the moral lesson here is just be careful and not to trust anyone here in this ecosystem. And everyone should know how to practice security hygiene, otherwise you will fell victim to this criminals.

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Quote from: 348Judah on August 24, 2023, 07:49:43 AM

Trust Wallet users should be on alert over this recent way of scam introduced on trust wallet via link address.

NFT are not the bad actors in scam, people make use of them to launch attack on users by introducing infiltrating malwares, phishing sites, malicious links and downloads through the introduction of new NFT to intending and potential investors in cryptocurrency, you can see what appears on the scam alert hinted with the use of trust wallet, user's should be careful.

https://twitter.com/TrustWallet/status/1691044904489865216?t=nXtbSD_aiUuAgjncZ3ZWyw&s=19

Beginners beware of Airdrops that will redirect you to their website through the provided link around the shiny coins you see on your wallet, where you will be required to fill in informations in other to claim the reward, follow the instructions as provided above and avoid their website as it leads to scam if any information is provided.

I have never checked my wallets if I am airdropped with NFTs like that claiming that it is an “ETH voucher” or anything related to it. As a seasoned guy in the crypto and Web3 space especially encountering scams, I always do my due diligence and being very extra careful.

I just do not simply interact with those honeypot tokens as well as these suspicious “voucher” NFTs that appear in my Trust Wallet, etc. I’ll just leave it as it is and not gonna touch it anyways.

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I am expecting that people behind TrustWallet should be one step ahead of possible scam or intrusion into the secured wallet, otherwise this will make people really scared of using the services of the wallet. At any rate, we should always understand that there is no 100% safe platform in the crypto space as there are so many hackers and fraudsters dedicating their lives just to victimize others and get rich in the process. We should always be careful at all time...and take a time to consider whether an airdrop is really what it says it is or a gateway to hell.

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Quote from: goaldigger on August 25, 2023, 03:46:15 AM

Quote from: rhomelmabini on August 24, 2023, 02:12:36 PM

This isn't new and likely these airdrops are done automatically when these malicious actors see if you're have an active wallet being involved on airdrops as well. Good thing crypto wallets these days have that feature to hide these lousy tokens on your wallet so always update it and exercise the necessary procedures to secure your wallet.

Unfortunately many hunters are still falling into this trap despite of old tactics of the scammers.
Scammers are also adopting the trend so if you will not care on clicking links you might become a victim. Hackers and scammers are all over the cryptospace, this is not new to see them hunting the hunters so if you are into airdrop don't be greedy to participate on airdrop, better to do your own research first.

Perhaps they already who's their target and for sure, those greedy people will fall into their traps. Yes, indeed we all are aware of this dirty tactics but some people are still blind not to see behind those sweet promises. That is why we can't rid these scammers out from crypto space because as long as there are people who fall into their trap, they still remain active in here. Now, it was on our part to decide whether we are going to participate airdrops or just leave and ignore them.

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This is one of the efforts that must be avoided to avoid airdrops that spread Malware, therefore I am not very interested in airdrops asking to connect Trustwallet wallets, it is better not to participate in such things. Although there are some who suggest creating a new wallet, I'm still not interested at all

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Quote from: rhomelmabini on August 24, 2023, 02:12:36 PM

This isn't new and likely these airdrops are done automatically when these malicious actors see if you're have an active wallet being involved on airdrops as well. Good thing crypto wallets these days have that feature to hide these lousy tokens on your wallet so always update it and exercise the necessary procedures to secure your wallet.

Unfortunately many hunters are still falling into this trap despite of old tactics of the scammers.
Scammers are also adopting the trend so if you will not care on clicking links you might become a victim. Hackers and scammers are all over the cryptospace, this is not new to see them hunting the hunters so if you are into airdrop don't be greedy to participate on airdrop, better to do your own research first.

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Quote from: 348Judah on August 24, 2023, 07:49:43 AM

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Beginners beware of Airdrops that will redirect you to their website through the provided link around the shiny coins you see on your wallet, where you will be required to fill in informations in other to claim the reward, follow the instructions as provided above and avoid their website as it leads to scam if any information is provided.

It's a very common way of scamming people, but HEY!!! it works because there will be, and will be ignorant investors, and beginners out there who are falling very easily into these kind of traps.
I mean if only, if only they research first before they decide anything that includes their investments, I guess the chances of them getting scammed will be lowered.

I guess it's good that I didn't scammed that much when I was a newbie because I'm very hesitant at that time, and because of being hesitant, I lost many opportunities as well that could've made me a millionaire. Kidding aside, this is a good awareness for those beginners out there that they should think twice or even thrice before joining into these kind of airdrops. I guess it would be better if they will just simply avoid airdrops at all in order for them to prevent getting scammed.

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I'm not so techy when it comes to technicalities of how these digital thieves operate and how they attack users using advanced programming or something along that line, but a basic knowledge what are the phishing websites and how it works, would absolutely save yourself from these troubles in the future.
There are people who really want to participate in airdrops and free tokens/NFTs because there are these legit ones, but it should be done carefully by not using the same wallet and devices where your assets is stored. So, it does not really matter if the hackers will try to access what little information they got from you.

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i think in this time mostly wallet have received a nft type coupon but it's fully scam if anyone want to sell are connected through link definitely there wallet are hack so be careful.
Its a type of attack the side of hackers the majority of wallet is that who are received which is use in different Airdrops hackers send those wallet user see nft they think they win a price..

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Quote from: 348Judah on August 24, 2023, 07:49:43 AM

Beginners beware of Airdrops that will redirect you to their website through the provided link around the shiny coins you see on your wallet, where you will be required to fill in informations in other to claim the reward, follow the instructions as provided above and avoid their website as it leads to scam if any information is provided.

The Trust Wallet team may be late in publishing this warning to their community. I have had NFTs for years, and I did not mint them and found them in my wallet without my intervention, The suspicious thing that made me stay away from them is that one of these NFTs can give me thousands of dollars by staking it on the scam site that appears in this NFT information on Opensea and for sure anyone who opens a scam site and deposits a certain amount of altcoins or stablecoins to get the stake rewards, will lose his funds and may lose all the available NFTs on his wallet, these NFTs are like scam pump and dump tokens that we find in our wallets and lose our money when we exchange or send it, or after purchasing more quantities of it, so any NFT or token that you found dormant in our wallet that we do not know its source, I recommend that ignore them completely without doing anything.

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Quote from: 348Judah on August 24, 2023, 07:49:43 AM

Trust Wallet users should be on alert over this recent way of scam introduced on trust wallet via link address.

NFT are not the bad actors in scam, people make use of them to launch attack on users by introducing infiltrating malwares, phishing sites, malicious links and downloads through the introduction of new NFT to intending and potential investors in cryptocurrency, you can see what appears on the scam alert hinted with the use of trust wallet, user's should be careful.
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Beginners beware of Airdrops that will redirect you to their website through the provided link around the shiny coins you see on your wallet, where you will be required to fill in informations in other to claim the reward, follow the instructions as provided above and avoid their website as it leads to scam if any information is provided.

I have joined some crypto based groups which are specifically airdrop hunters on facebook which they do really share up tons of airdrops and including that minting about those NFTs
which links are given which needs to be approved or be allowed and ending up on some users that stolen up their assets with their Metamask wallet which it is really that truly devastating.

Example is on this one
Someone Lost Millions Trying to Claim $2K Crypto Airdrop
https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/someone-lost-millions-trying-to-claim-2k-crypto-airdrop/

In speaking about airdrops then its literally free, but clicking out random links in the internet is really just that a suicide things if ever you would tend to do so.
Dont make yourself that too careless because this would really be your demise.

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Those that are into these NFTs and airdrops are the targeted people of these scams. It is because they're gullible and think that it's nothing to be aware of. But upon experiencing that, they'll get to learn the importance of being vigilant on matters like this. They shouldn't be easy to connect their wallets whether it is Trust Wallet or Metamask or any other wallets that's being used by these scammers to trick the users that are keeping up with the free money that they are following.
For the sake of the newbies which are most likely the victims of this type of scam, you need to be chill and researchful when you're checking out these airdrops.

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I used to be careless in storing different altcoins in my wallet before regardless of their legitimacy or value. I often joined different airdrops before not knowing that I could get hacked or scammed by clicking different links as part of the requirement to join them. Since I've heard from a friend that he has been a victim of fake altcoin and scam airdrop before, I've been really skeptical and I avoid joining untrusted airdrops as scamming and hacking might happen if we will be reckless.
We better avoid projects that we aren't sure about. We should do deep research to check the legitimacy of each airdrop that we're joining so we will not fall for scammers. We have to be wise or else we will surely fall for their trap.

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It's happening on everyone.

It's based smart-contract, each time you doing transaction on the chain then you will get a random (NFTs) after that. Always, never reaction anything to kind of asset you are not own (or randomly get from somewhere else).

It's just like spam token but the different with NFTs.

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I'd first like to thank the OP for writing this cautionary post. I often receive different types of fake tokens in my trust wallet. If we want to swap these tokens, our wallet is getting hacked. After that, the new trap started again through airdrop. We can't be too greedy and click on any links sent by strangers.

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This is not limited to trust wallets, somehow they find our wallet, but I think the snapshot system in the smart contract can detect the last activity of the wallet and then sends this kind of NFT. For example, every wallet that has ever interacted for mint NFT on Opensea, I think smart contracts can do a snapshot of the transaction. Because, before I had NFT, I didn't have scam NFT as shared by OP, but now I received more than 5 of those scam NFTs. We can't do anything about it, we want to throw it away, we have to get it approved, and I'm worried that if I do that, then the smart contract will drain assets when I have a number of valuable tokens in my wallet. These scam NTF mostly sent from Polygon network.

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Same thing happened in my trust wallet. But I didn't understand one think, that somehow from the verified twitter account with having more followers of trust wallet, bnb etc. posts the fake and scam links. So, mostly people thought that the links are real but It is just a scam.

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This isn't new and likely these airdrops are done automatically when these malicious actors see if you're have an active wallet being involved on airdrops as well. Good thing crypto wallets these days have that feature to hide these lousy tokens on your wallet so always update it and exercise the necessary procedures to secure your wallet.

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Quote from: 348Judah on August 24, 2023, 07:49:43 AM

Trust Wallet users should be on alert over this recent way of scam introduced on trust wallet via link address.
NFT are not the bad actors in scam, people make use of them to launch attack on users by introducing infiltrating malwares, phishing sites, malicious links and downloads through the introduction of new NFT to intending and potential investors in cryptocurrency, you can see what appears on the scam alert hinted with the use of trust wallet, user's should be careful.
Beginners beware of Airdrops that will redirect you to their website through the provided link around the shiny coins you see on your wallet, where you will be required to fill in informations in other to claim the reward, follow the instructions as provided above and avoid their website as it leads to scam if any information is provided.

First of all I would like to thanks to you for bringing this topic, because I think it will gives a notification to many beginners.
Now get into the point, this is not the first time that was happening Because this has been happening before. These types of scammers are increasing day by day as the cryptocurrency world become larger. We have to be careful, initially when going to invest in all these types of investment things, he should first see if there is a beginner on the official website of those projects. As I see that you have taken the screenshot from the official Twitter page of Trust Wallet. In this case, this thing should be noted that you are following the official page of the project. Thus in every case the original sources must be followed, and we must prevent ourselves from being too greedy because in most cases greed pulls us to these things.

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