I would even say, get your information here, but seek out the community around the project for getting links. It is easy for one rogue anal sphincter to post a fake ANN thread. It is another thing altogether for such a lazy person to create a Discord channel and populate it with dozens of accounts to fake a community.
And, in the case of a WALLET, I would put more trust in anti-virus alerts. Had I not ignored my alert I would still have my RVN all nice and cozy in their nest.
Topic: Do NOT be scammed here... (Read 182 times)
I was almost download, but I saw several messages, which were alerting viruses, being deleted and I decided not to download.
Hi jimboscott, thank you for alert
After i create this topic https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.47185569
hilariousandco ban him and lock threads
After i create this topic https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.47185569
hilariousandco ban him and lock threads
Ssdd right
Please take EXTREME caution when diving into new crypto ANN threads.
There is one poster who is posting what APPEAR to be NEW projects, but what he is doing is taking legitimate EXISTING projects and using his own new thread to entice people to download his malicious code that could cost you dearly.
The poster goes by HardZix.
He has new thread after new thread that LOOK like the real deal - except for one detail...
The link to the wallets or miners are changed to his own malicious code. How do I know this?
On October 15 I downloaded and tried to run a wallet for Nektarcoin in one of his threads. The wallet did not run... at least not as a wallet. I figured it was just broken. Then people started to report it as a virus. We all know that crypto miners are always setting off false alerts so I did not think that much about it.
On October 16, I opened my RVN wallet and to my utter dismay, all of my Ravencoin was GONE. 250,000 coins. Gone. The transfers were made on the morning of 10/16 and the only way that could have happened would have been through remote access to my computer. Scary stuff. This person also tried to change online accounts to his own - but all that did was allow me to know one of his email addresses...
I then read 2 more reports about people who had downloaded from his posts and they said they experienced loss of coins as well in the same manner.
I have reported this guy to the moderators and NOTHING has been done to stop him. I have warned people in his bogus threads and... my warnings have been deleted.
Do NOT DOWNLOAD ANYTHING FROM THIS GUY'S THREADS.
There is one poster who is posting what APPEAR to be NEW projects, but what he is doing is taking legitimate EXISTING projects and using his own new thread to entice people to download his malicious code that could cost you dearly.
The poster goes by HardZix.
He has new thread after new thread that LOOK like the real deal - except for one detail...
The link to the wallets or miners are changed to his own malicious code. How do I know this?
On October 15 I downloaded and tried to run a wallet for Nektarcoin in one of his threads. The wallet did not run... at least not as a wallet. I figured it was just broken. Then people started to report it as a virus. We all know that crypto miners are always setting off false alerts so I did not think that much about it.
On October 16, I opened my RVN wallet and to my utter dismay, all of my Ravencoin was GONE. 250,000 coins. Gone. The transfers were made on the morning of 10/16 and the only way that could have happened would have been through remote access to my computer. Scary stuff. This person also tried to change online accounts to his own - but all that did was allow me to know one of his email addresses...
I then read 2 more reports about people who had downloaded from his posts and they said they experienced loss of coins as well in the same manner.
I have reported this guy to the moderators and NOTHING has been done to stop him. I have warned people in his bogus threads and... my warnings have been deleted.
Do NOT DOWNLOAD ANYTHING FROM THIS GUY'S THREADS.
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