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So PancakeSwap has an Official App? have no knowledge about this since I am not having any connection with PancakeSwap project.

Yeah it increases this year and there are some thread that i come across talking about how promising this but I care nothing but with all of my funds in Folio.

Quote from: chance57 on October 18, 2021, 01:17:35 PM

Just lost 8K on PancakeSwap, i will never use this service again!

Mind explaining how you lose money in Pancake swapping?

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Pancake swap never had an app I guess? Cos if they had their website will bring out download link for app, playstore is what I fear the most cos there are too many fake apps on there, if you need to download an app don't go on playstore to search for it, there is a chance you might got the wrong one

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maybe it has become cryptocurrency law when developers and scammers will look for loopholes to deceive users who are actually new or not careful ... moreover pancakeswap is one of the swap exchanges that is very widely used I myself have never used except from services already provided by the wallet or exchange

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I never use so far pancakeswap using mobile phone that can be download in the play store.
Just using it or opening it through browsing in the chrome or any of the legit browser anyway.
This is too risky and one mistake all your assets can be steal for sure in the end.

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Quote from: chance57 on October 18, 2021, 01:17:35 PM

Just lost 8K on PancakeSwap, i will never use this service again!

How did you lose 8k on Pancakeswap? Did you buy a project token that rugged or what?

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I am yet to see any DEX with a mobile app. Most DEXs are usually web based and the likes of Uniswap, pancakeswap, etc are web 3 allied which makes it possible to access them from a mobile wallet.

A rule of the thumb I follow whenever I want to download any app is to go through their official website. If it's not listed there, then it most likely does not exist. In case I have a doubt, I ask through their official social media handles.

This should help anyone, especially a newbie.

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Just lost 8K on PancakeSwap, i will never use this service again!

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Quote from: Anonylz on October 17, 2021, 12:58:18 PM

Imagine downloading an app from play store is not even safe anymore, am glad I only access pancakeswap through safepal Wallet, I never knew there is a stand alone app or just this fake ones exit in play store, good @op has pointed this out for everyone to know, am sure some innocent people already fall victims to this terrible scam.

Sad to inform you that by checking the info page for the fake app, there are thousands of downloads. It's always (in most of cases) an issue with Google standards which doesn't just allow hackers to list fake apps in Google Play store, but they are also able to promote it in Google Search first page by just paying the fees.
There are no worries with apple store as they have a solid security policy, however we should always check and verify because even we trust app store, we still don't know how the hackers can compromise the system.

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Imagine downloading an app from play store is not even safe anymore, am glad I only access pancakeswap through safepal Wallet, I never knew there is a stand alone app or just this fake ones exit in play store, good @op has pointed this out for everyone to know, am sure some innocent people already fall victims to this terrible scam.

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Quote from: Tanaka-Wun on October 11, 2021, 09:08:05 AM

Thank you I was about to download it lately because I wanted to do swapping on my phone but now I prefer using my laptop because of this post.

i was using my phone all the time whenever i swap tokens in pancakeswap . i use trustwallet and metamask , theres a browser within them and thats how you connect to pcs and trade .

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It is alarming that some apps got millions of downloads, so let's guess how many accounts were compromised. Thanks for bringing to the community's attention about the fake mobile apps for popular Binance Smart Chain decentralized exchange. It's important to note that the DEX doesn't have mobile apps. Already, malicious actors have created the popular DEX-like applications on the Google Play store. Take caution.

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Quote from: Adbitco on October 08, 2021, 04:59:09 PM

This is very bad Wink

there are some certain principles i have set for myself before engaging into any DEX to swap any token listed on it, first i only trade on pancakeswap using my Trustapp to connect to pancakeswap directly, then also if swapping from poocoin i connect to it through trustapp as well.

You could easily make out some bookmarks so that you wouldnt lost up yourself or lost track on the time you do access a certain site specially dealing with DEX exchange.

Having some common sense is something a very common human error on where they do neglect out on checking things because if they are really that sensible towards their actions

then people wouldnt really be ending up on disastrous kind of mistakes which would really cost up them money.If you are really that having that awareness then its most likely
you wont really get victimized.

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if not in this thread i will not find out that Pancakeswap has an APP going lol.

though this pancake project is showing some good increase nowadays and surely scam and hack will follow that way , yet i did not pay attention to this one Grin

anyway thanks for the heads up, in case i come across investing or using pancake for swapping? i will use this advise .

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It's not just about fake applications, it's worth noting that many phishing sites have come without us realizing it all this time, so it's better to use it as safely as possible with a trusted application to swap on pancakeswap and try to see in this thread list about phishing that has been done. a lot is reported in that thread, because I think some may not know in this case. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/list-phishing-cryptocurrency-site-5197078

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Thank you I was about to download it lately because I wanted to do swapping on my phone but now I prefer using my laptop because of this post.

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This is very bad Wink

there are some certain principles i have set for myself before engaging into any DEX to swap any token listed on it, first i only trade on pancakeswap using my Trustapp to connect to pancakeswap directly, then also if swapping from poocoin i connect to it through trustapp as well.

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This is useful information for noob like me. Really thank you so much

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Quote from: Mpamaegbu on October 05, 2021, 11:37:36 AM

Quote from: Kavelj22 on October 03, 2021, 03:31:28 PM

I searched into this case and discovered that there was two domains registered lately in Namecheap as a copied version of the PancakeSwap called pacanakeswap:

Code:

pacanakeswap.me

Code:

pacanakeswap.cc

Those names on the domains won't deceive anyone into thinking it was pancakeswap the way they're written except those who are completely careless. Spellings are totally different.

It's all about the blind trust category you've already mentioned in your reply. I could imagine if one of those two fake domains appears in the top 1st page google search as a mirror for official PancakeSwap platform, how many victims you expect to have in just one or two days?

I don't think that Spellings are totally different like you said & if someone is really considering taking care about spelling and trivial details, he would even check the google domain itself.

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Quote from: Kavelj22 on October 02, 2021, 01:56:31 PM

It's not a stupidity to miss the info that PancakeSwap hasn't yet a mobile app version, but to blindly trust google.

I think the blind trust thing is the bigger issue here. I was in that blind trust category before. Until last year I thought every app on Playstore was screened and found to be genuine. It was on this platform that I was educated it wasn't so and since then I learnt to be skeptical downloading any app. Don't rely on the reviews alone because most of the scam projects pay people to write positive views for them or they do it themselves by opening several accounts to post that.

Quote from: Kavelj22 on October 03, 2021, 03:31:28 PM

I searched into this case and discovered that there was two domains registered lately in Namecheap as a copied version of the PancakeSwap called pacanakeswap:

Code:

pacanakeswap.me

Code:

pacanakeswap.cc

Those names on the domains won't deceive anyone into thinking it was pancakeswap the way they're written except those who are completely careless. Spellings are totally different.

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Quote from: Cornia on October 04, 2021, 02:08:45 PM

There are so many fake app in google play store. We shouldn't download the app directly from play store.

All of the things got faked on the playstore. There are bunch of ronin fake app on the google play store and so many axie players have become victims caused by their axie got stolen by the hacker who have been using this kind of fake app to steal the data. I don't know why how playstore has very low security. Too much fake application created by scammers on playstore.
They were cloning everything. Playstore was a garbage market for sure. The problem was newbies are always feeling so difficult to know which was the real app

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