There have been multiple reported cases over the last month, as can be seen on the following thread for example: Please disable Fake ANNs download links , theymos !.
Basically, scammers are cloning Ann threads, preserving the content of the original OP, but changing the links to their wallet download on (usually) GitHub. The account that do this are of multiple nature: New accounts, ranked accounts that were dormant and have recently woken-up, and hacked accounts with a certain rank (not necessarily higher than Member).
Some of these hacked accounts were silently hacked, meaning by this that they managed to gain control of the account without actually taking over it (no change of password nor email). They then posted the fake Anns on from these accounts and left the legitimate owner to face the problem once someone reported the fake Ann posted from his account.
Topic: BEWARE of links that are NOT what they APPEAR to be (Read 177 times)
I just found about half dozen new ANN threads for projects that are NOT new, but which are being posted to try to deceive you into downloading and running something OTHER than the wallet that is being offered.
Watch your links VERY closely. In fact, I would go so far as to say do NOT download ANYTHING from these ANN threads at all. Find the legitimate website for the project or the legitimate Discord channel and get your downloads from more trustworthy sources.
Three of the scam posts that I just saw led to a download for a wallet for Fydcoin - whatever that is.
Why would a Ravencoin thread link to a fydcoin wallet?
I would stay away from this shit big time.
Watch your links VERY closely. In fact, I would go so far as to say do NOT download ANYTHING from these ANN threads at all. Find the legitimate website for the project or the legitimate Discord channel and get your downloads from more trustworthy sources.
Three of the scam posts that I just saw led to a download for a wallet for Fydcoin - whatever that is.
Why would a Ravencoin thread link to a fydcoin wallet?
I would stay away from this shit big time.
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