Topic: Beware of fake Coinmarketcap! (Read 400 times)

That means that our reporting is helping to remove these phishing links so, if we've got little of time and it's just a spare, we can help in that little way that we can through reporting them to google. Although there won't be a full stop for them but, we're able to do some actions that might save a lot of newbies then.

If it's with the search results, always be vigilant typically with the first show results. Because those are the ads and one should take a look at that label of being an ad to have a clue together with the correct characters of the website name.

So far I haven't seen those two sites, it seems that Google has taken it down. And thanks to those who reported it. But we still need to be very vigilant with this kind of sites because it's really dangerous.

Or better yet, just bookmarked https://coinmarketcap.com/. Or if we are going to search every crypto related thing in Google, just double check everything.

Actually, this is the sad truth. Even if how we manage to report all of it and make everyone aware of them, they will keep coming and unstoppable because it's easy for them to make a new one and another one if they get reported. I guess the best thing that we can do is to educate everyone on how to figure it out and how to avoid them.

Can you explain the ones that I've bold? You're thinking of keeping your private keys or seeds on your email? Or I have understood it wrongly.

With all of the other posts on this thread about the fake coinmarketcap websites, it's sad that out of the many, there will be a few that might fall for this tactic. I just hope that most newbies will be suspicious when they're asked to connect these wallets as they may misclick these phishing and fake links.

That's really it, they pay for these ads so they will appear at the first search of whatever metrics they set but usually for related crypto keywords and searches. It's been years of problem that this has been addressed to Google but they did nothing even in their playstore, a lot of fake apps are existing there waiting for their prey to come.

True, they're doing it at a right timing whenever the market seems to be up, a lot of it are existing. And it's likely with all of the same links that they have advertised, the same people might be behind on this. They seemed to be planned very well and anticipating that if one gets reported, they'll just have to reproduce it again.

Let's keep on reporting them and keep this thread posted, I'll merge all of these cmc phishing links on this thread or prolly with a new one.

probably most people will not know this. or not affected by this fake site. the reason is that maybe more people are accessing the site from the mobile app.

but today, I tried to search on google again with the keyword "coinmarketcap" there was 2 ad from a fake website that had a scheme like the one the OP got.
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when accessing the fake site. on the display that can be accessed only for wallet connections. while the rest of the menu will not work.

Yes, saw this a couple of days ago, but forgot to remind the community, as least someone though has step up and give us a heads up.

And the timing of this scammers/cyber criminals is perfect, when we breach $20k and when everyone wanted to see the price at cmc, they created this fake coinmarketcap and you can fall for it if you are not that careful. And there are at least 2 sites that is still in front of the Big G right now, so again, just heed this warning.

I'll make the educated guess and say that Google is filled with similar phising ads, because I'm also seeing two sponsored ads regarding a fake Coinmarketcap website, different from those you and OP posted. Honestly, I don't see why you'd connect to CMC in the first place but I'm guessing that it's fairly easy to get carried away.

Here's the two websites being shown. Both already reported to Google and hoping they're taken down. It's kind of frustrating that no background check is being conducted when Google is listing such advertisements.

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Yeah, I agree but it still can help to take down that phishing site from the SERP. I know those people who make phishing sites they know that it will happen that their phishing sites will be reported right away but since all of the hacker's sites is open they are still collecting users' data like IPs and what device visitors used those data they can use it to improve their new phishing site to avoid people who reported them and exclude them on AdWords so that people like me won't be able to see the new phishing site they've created in Google SERP.

This is a known strategy from CPA/affiliate marketing and they also apply it to phishing.

I don't know what Google's advertising algorithm looks like so that sites like this continue to grow. Maybe because they pay and google gives priority without first seeing the website is phishing or not. Obviously this would be dangerous if ordinary people found it. They will think every one that is on top with google ads is a trusted website. Need to get some feedback for google to eradicate phishing websites like this.

What a hell 

This purely bad to those with little experience about CMC and they might thought is the right site.
Well my advice to newbies is to bookmark the original website on their mobile browser or web browser, maybe whenever they want to visit the site they could get the knowledge of fake and original site.
Scammer are active devising a means to hack and steal people's funds, i wonder how many people that have fall prey into this false site.

I don't store password on my email because that is very risky to do. I may deciding keep private keys or seed there but password is not going down there. You need both seed and password to completely access a wallet so I keep one away from reach incase the email is hacked. We need to be smart and play save to our asset because once you lose it, hackers don't return stolen coins.

You can try, but those reports are no longer as effective as before - and is the reason that Google has significantly reduced the number of people who were involved in this, or has the number of people who report such sites decreased.

I just know that of all the phishing sites I've personally reported, not one has been blocked in the last 6+ months. Even if you manage to block everything mentioned in this thread, new phishing sites will appear at such a speed that you won't even be able to detect them all.

Yes, they're doing the same scam and could be the same people behind these phishing links. Let's just report them so that Google will remove them with our help.

I'll use that but for the meantime, I think that I'll stay on the typical usage without them so that I can report those phishing links that would appear as I search. And for bookmarking, it's a lowkey advise but definitely works.

That's right, there's no other thing that we can do but to unite and voluntarily report all of those suspicious and obvious websites that would appear on google's ad appearance on its top search.

It's always like this, Google should have been more aware with all of these phishing links as they accept them to advertise with them and then eventually, they're being reported. They should increase their way of filtering these scam ads and the standards before accepting such.

We can just hope for the best that Google would be thoughtful of the newbies in the crypto and they'll eliminate these type of ads. That's what they can do to give back to community by protecting everyone by not allowing to pass these scam sites to advertise on them.

There might be some targeting based on these ads and you're not part of it, but some folks really are seeing these ads for real.

I didn't know that they've got such feature before but it's better be gone because scammers/hackers will take advantage of this feature.

Damn, too many of them and it seems unstoppable. We really have just to volunteer on our own if we see such appear everytime we search with those few clicks and report it, there's also the other way of reporting it on OP.

If he's also careless and there's some ads appeared at the top search, basically, these phishing links are the ones that shall appear. If someone is not keen on really checking the spelling of the URL and has got his Metamask and the other mentioned wallet ready, he'll voluntarily going to fall for this scam.

I have reported all of those links that have been on this thread and hopefully the others would also do the same thing. These scammers a.k.a hackers too knows how to really use and maximize the use of Google.

It didn't show to me but today I tried and now there is a new phishing site using this keyword "coinmarketcap" and here is another fake one below


The owner seems too desperate to get some victims and abuse the free $100 credits on AdWords.
Why not report it together again before anyone falls into this trap?

It seems they have few strategies having multiple domain and set them to target different countries and new users only.

If the person searching for coinmarketcap without checking the url would surely fall with this phishing site. This is clearly a phishing site and it is not an exchange so why would you connect any wallet. This is the reason why we should be careful enough with what we do especially when you want to import a wallet since phishing sites are still around just like this one. Phishing sites have been discussed many times and there are tips how to avoid it or never see it again which is to block the fake site.

It seems that in the past Coinmarketcap had provided a SWAP feature which was directly integrated with several Dapps websites such as Uniswap, Pancakeswap and ran on the BNB and ETH networks. But when I check now the feature is gone. For some reason I also don't know, maybe there are some bugs or there will be more development.

About Coinmarketcap phishing website, I found 3 phishing websites and all of them were advertised by Google. Scammers deliberately make this and advertise it so that it can be clicked by unscrupulous victims.
To report it, click report so that phishing websites like this are immediately removed. and make sure the original website to be bookmarked.

You are right, I tried it and the results will match the keywords and no ads appear. But I feel the need to ask, is this extension really safe to use over some other ad blocking extensions?

Here are some search results based on common keywords such as coinmarketcap and bscscan.

I would rename the subject to "Beware of any fake website!". unfortunately, phishing is so common, it is very difficult to fight against it.
it certainly doesn't help when Google accepts such dubious sites, in addition to their fake fight and crypto ban in their ad space


I don't see any similar ads either.
Although the Chrome SEO plugin helps me, gives me certain metrics for sites, so all my results are numbered. I rarely even see sponsored search results at all.

I have never seen CoinMarketCap ask to connect Metamask, so I am not gonna connect it anyway. But the problem would happen with newbies and that's for sharing with us. Hope newbies will take the lesson from here. Google doesn't filter phishing sites at all. So always need to be very careful connecting your wallet to Google search. We shouldn't be greedy and have to share with the community when we find something suspicious like this. So we can save our funds and help others as well.

This can be classified into the category of one of the more sophisticated scams, where the scammers  actually spend money to promote their make-believe schemes. You would be surprised and wonder why these money they spend on running ads for dubious means cannot be redirected to investment in legitimate things.

 If we can really commit to reporting these dubious ads whenever we come across them as people who know better, we actually will be doing the cryptocurrency community a favour helping to reduce the number of fraudulent ads and people who fall victim to them.

I'm not sure if an ad block extension will help, but I think Ublock Origin has filtered out a lot of ads when I googled. Maybe you should consider an ad blocker, it will at least help you get search results without ads.

This suggestion may have been talked about a lot, but I think bookmarking the original site will also prevent you from entering phishing sites. So always being alert is important.