Topic: Beware of Scam Emails like this - page 2. (Read 335 times)

One of my mistakes when I was a newbie and didn't care too much about my privacy is using my main email to register on different platforms. I even used the same password  

Many of those platforms were hacked and their databases were leaked. My credentials became available publicly all over the Internet! Then, I started receiving similar phishing emails on a daily basis.
You can use this website to see if your email has been leaked too:
https://haveibeenpwned.com

Phishing and emails are one of the oldest ways of scamming people and still, there are a lot of people getting victims regarding with this kind of business please it is already in the age of technology all of the people must need to adopt this kind of technology and be aware of this kind of stealing of information.

Most of the time the people getting hacked or cause of stealing of information because of the emails and one of the most popular spamming of emails is the love you virus that someone is sending you an email specifically a love letter of course with the use of your curiosity you will now open this email and free access on your account.

If you don't expect any kind of email on your account don't open any link or message included with that to avoid future problems.

This is very old way to scam people, you shouldn't use your main email for such as suspicious site like ICO, Airdrop and other free money website. When you will receive such as greedy offer via mail, just use unsubscribe button from bottom of mail. So that you will not receive such as suspicious mail unless they add you manually once again. One of the most reason why we are gatting scam is greed, when we see any greedy offer then we fall into it. So try to be realistic, nothing is free in the world. We might avoid such as scam attempt by avoiding our greedy behaviour.

Yes, you are 100% right.. I use different emails now and I have up to 5 emails for different purposes because of this.

This is the reason why you should use different emails when you create an account on an exchange for example and in that way you won't receive scam emails on your primary email. Sites like that are called phishing sites where they will get all the details you submitted. To stay safe from this kind of scam you should also check the sender's email and compare it to the original if you have received one. If you haven't received one yet then you should search first or the best bet is to never open the email sent in the first place.

Proper safety measures have been discussed many times in the past. One of these is using different email accounts for different purposes. Your personal and private email accounts that you have for your banking, financial, and private needs should never be connected to the same email address that you use for ICOs, giveaways, and stuff like that.

You can categorize your needs in different ways and have anywhere between 5-10 email accounts that should never intersect.

Good advice. Email address should be carefully handled, but your someone having access to your email alone can't make them transfer your funds in your wallet they would still need your password or private keys for import of wallet,
When creating a wallet Is better documenting private material down than making a screenshot or saving it as a message in your email or saving it at all on your phone.
Also get 2fa authenticator

Thankyou for sharing this information, I will be careful before clicking any unknown link from someone now. But if you didn't change any password from your wallet, this trick will never work and you will safe

I decided to post this here because its for the newbies and I know this might probably help anyone. So, let me Say, as I've seen so far.

I've known about bitcoin and some other Altcoins since 2016 and since then, I've signed up in several websites because of free BTC or ETH and this have made my previous email address common and shared with different kind of people. Although I stopped now but they already got one of my email. So i received many scam emails from scammers

Many scam mails or emails are being sent by scammers to steal your coins.
Be careful of these kind of email if you are a type whom email address is being shared to people and the same email is being used on several exchanges or any wallet.

These emails include
* you should change your password, follow this link
* follow this link below to change your password
* your password needs to be changed. Click here.
*  you need to change your password to be able to access your account
And so on.
See an example here : https://ibb.co/ygkHQS7

What will happen when you click on the link?
You will be directed to a compromised version of the site and any details you enter and click submit will be revealed to the scammer.
This will give the scammer access to your account and be able to withdraw your funds or steal your funds.

Also, giving out your email address anyhow isn't safe too because thus could give hackers chance to get to any account connected to that email easily.

Beware of all these