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jossiel

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Quote from: mk4 on December 18, 2019, 10:45:34 PM

Not sure how your friend mistyped "electrum" for "eklectrum"

I usually have the same experience by typing the wrong letter before and after the correct letter because letter 'k' and 'l' were just close to each other. And his friend probably got it wrong for typing quickly and was confident that he typed the right website.

It might be a simple practice to bookmark the legit websites that you visit but it will save you from any future trouble of landing to the wrong one which is a phishing site.

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Quote from: LTU_btc on December 19, 2019, 03:49:07 PM

Does anyone knows where this website is hosted? I'm on mobile now, so it would be difficult to find this information for me. But it would be good to find it and report this website to hosting provider for abuse to shutdown it.

The "eklectrum" redirection site also shares the same registrar and was also created 3 days ago. You can report them both to the email address above, and you can also report them to Google's Safe Browsing feature. They will get taken down rapidly, but it makes little difference as new ones will have popped up within the hour. It's an endless game of cat-and-mouse. We will never win by chasing them around scam page after scam page. Better just to end the game altogether by teaching everyone to verify their downloads.

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Does anyone knows where this website is hosted? I'm on mobile now, so it would be difficult to find this information for me. But it would be good to find it and report this website to hosting provider for abuse to shutdown it.

Quote from: mk4 on December 18, 2019, 10:45:34 PM

Not sure how your friend mistyped "electrum" for "eklectrum", as he would probably need to be really drunk to mistype it that bad, but yea. Doublecheck what you're typing and copy-pasting people. Especially when were talking about freakin bitcoin, that's hugely hugely targeted by scammers and hackers.

You don't have to be drunk, because it's very easy to make duch mistype. Maybe OP's friend didn't knew how to write name of wallet and intentionally wanted to write Elektrum and he made typing mistake when doing it.

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Quote from: mk4 on December 18, 2019, 10:45:34 PM

Not sure how your friend mistyped "electrum" for "eklectrum", as he would probably need to be really drunk to mistype it that bad, but yea.

On a standard English QWERTY keyboard, a simple slip when pressing the "L" button could quite easily type "KL" instead.

In addition to the advice above about host files and double checking URLs (which is obviously good advice), this is why the Electrum website tells you to verify your downloads, we all go on and on about verifying your downloads, and multiple guides have been created to show you how to verify your downloads. 30 seconds spent to verify your download prior to installing completely negates the risk of visiting fake sites or downloading a malicious copy of Electrum.

Editing your host file is useful for sites like the fake bitcointalk forum which doesn't change its URL, but for sites like fake Electrum sites it is next to useless. By the time you've added one URL to your hosts file, the scammers have already moved on to another URL. You can add these sites to your hosts file for the rest of time and never be completely safe.

Verify your downloads!

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Any website related to cryptocurrency or any kind of money should be double checked. Try to find their social media pages (Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Medium, etc) to confirm you are on the official website. You can find press releases on famous news websites with links to their official websites also.

eklectrum is so obvious phising and your friend was careless...

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Not sure how your friend mistyped "electrum" for "eklectrum", as he would probably need to be really drunk to mistype it that bad, but yea. Doublecheck what you're typing and copy-pasting people. Especially when were talking about freakin bitcoin, that's hugely hugely targeted by scammers and hackers.

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It is a phishing site tries to fake Electrum.org. The kinda phishing site is very common but there are always lots of people fall into traps of phishing sites and lose money.

What to do to avoid phising sites
Host-file to deal with phishing sites
I have some for phishing sites and some external topics in these topics. Hope these ones can help you guys.

The phishing site brought by OP added in the list (at the bottom line).

Code:

0.0.0.0 bitcointalk.to
0.0.0.0 fonstavka.com
0.0.0.0 thebitcointalk.net
0.0.0.0 fonstavka.com
0.0.0.0 lawcommonentrance.com
0.0.0.0 electrum.org.uk
0.0.0.0 electrumclient.org
0.0.0.0 downloadelectrum.org
0.0.0.0 electrumsite.com
0.0.0.0 electrumweb.net
0.0.0.0 electrumupdate.com
0.0.0.0 electrumproject.org
0.0.0.0 mercatox.org
0.0.0.0 bitplace.org
0.0.0.0 coinpalace.org
0.0.0.0 exmo.space
0.0.0.0 poficrypt.com
0.0.0.0 coinsweet.org
0.0.0.0 cryptexcurrency.com
0.0.0.0 crypton-bnb.com
0.0.0.0 cryptexplatform.com
0.0.0.0 crypto-trader24.com
0.0.0.0 24xfast.com
0.0.0.0 24xtransfer.com
0.0.0.0 24xtrade.com
0.0.0.0 24burntrade.com
0.0.0.0 bitusual.com
0.0.0.0 24fastcoin.com
0.0.0.0 social-info.ru
0.0.0.0 margo-event.com
0.0.0.0 www.social-analysis.ru
0.0.0.0 24spacetrade.com
0.0.0.0 24xholding.com
0.0.0.0 ancebit.com
0.0.0.0 24xcointrade.com
0.0.0.0 24bestchanger.com
0.0.0.0 24xhold.com
0.0.0.0 cryptextrade.com
0.0.0.0 tradexblue.com
0.0.0.0 bitmate24.com
0.0.0.0 poficrypt.com
0.0.0.0 evrostyle.net
0.0.0.0 24excoin.com
0.0.0.0 fastchange24.com
0.0.0.0 cryptonplatform.io
0.0.0.0 best-xtrades.com
0.0.0.0 tradexmate.com
0.0.0.0 fixtradecorp.com
0.0.0.0 bitbeaxy.com
0.0.0.0 24bitstamp.com
0.0.0.0 mercatox.org
0.0.0.0 crypto-change24.com
0.0.0.0 bitspace24.com
0.0.0.0 bitbns.org
0.0.0.0 24coindesk.com
0.0.0.0 coinsbank.store
0.0.0.0 xcryptoplatform.com
0.0.0.0 bitshumb.com
0.0.0.0 https://brave-browser.info
0.0.0.0 https://bitblender.eu/
0.0.0.0 https://bounty-brave.info/
0.0.0.0 https://litecoln.org/
0.0.0.0 https://biockcheln.info/
0.0.0.0 http://iocaibitcoins.com/
0.0.0.0 https://iocaibitcoins.com/
0.0.0.0 https://lolibitcoins.net/
0.0.0.0 http://privatemgrgg.pw/vcruntime140.dll
0.0.0.0 https://localbicolns.org/
0.0.0.0 http://localbicolns.org/
0.0.0.0 http://mgsocl.su/api/check.get
0.0.0.0 http://mgsocl.su/api/gate.get
0.0.0.0 http://dress-x.ru/freebl3.dll
0.0.0.0 https://brave-drop.info
0.0.0.0 https://electrum.cash/#home

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Chikito

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We should careful when to write on a box address.

Like my friend, He was bought a new device and wants to download electrum wallet, then prepare to write electrum.org but made 1 mistake wroten eklectrum.org, and what happened next?
perfectly direct to phishing electrum

Code:

https://electrum.cash/#home

Look cash camouflage into Bitcoin wallet and should be fake and scam.

How to avoid it:

1. Always double-check before entering a keyboard button.
2. Bookmark electrum.org
3. Sign up or log in, then Sync. When you have change device, just log in your firefox account and all bookmark will appear.

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