Common victims of scam or phishing website over the internet are the beginners in crypto. There's a lot of bad people nowadays are taking advantages to our newbies.
There's a lot of people that first impressions on crypto are scam/fraud or full of scammers, they are wrong, it's on how they use crypto or how they treat it. Even how powerful technology nowadays, we still need to think twice, we need to ask questions if there are any suspected things you saw on the internet.
To avoid these kinds of scam or phishing, we need to learn and explore things. We should know basic securities of surfing into the internet.
Look at this chart by
Google, every year, Phishing sites are increasing. (
This data is for general Phishing sites, not only for crypto)
A very simple tips on how to protect yourself and your funds: Most common uses:
- Linkify Ethereum Addresses
- Block you from malicious domains
- History Checker
- Twitter Trust Badges
There's also "Bookmark your favourite domains" and "Custom RPC node", but I haven't tried that. For more info and detailed descriptions visit their
website. The last three features given above are really helpful,
I can say based on experience.
1.
Block you from malicious domains : They have a record of blacklisted domains and if you visited one, you'll see this:
2.
History Checker : You can check your browser history anytime (last 500 only), this helps in checking if you've visited a site before that has been recently blacklisted. Just go click "More Settings" in your EAL Extension and you'll see all the details there / perform the action.
check the quoted post
3.
Twitter Trust Badges : They are providing 3 types of badges in twitter. I'm seeing this, but I chose to provide the info and images they have provided [source here >
Twitter Badges]
a. Verified/Whitelisted : This means CryptoInfluencers or EtherScamDB have whitelisted your Twitter ID.
b. Blacklisted : This means the account is an imposter or tweeting in way to scam or phish users of their funds.
If you want to report a domain via EAL - you'll be redirected to etherscamdb too.
Also thanks to
riritsurya1202 4.Cryptonite - Online Identity Protection Only 30 Days free trial if you don't want to pay This browser add-on is the most effective security and compliance solution for protecting your personal identity across every channel including the web, email, cloud, team collaboration and social media.
How the visual indicator works:✔️ Green Shield = Safe
✔️ Black Shield = Unknown so proceed with caution
✔️ Warning Page = Dangerous
Thanks to
whotookmycrypto for this.
5.Malwarebytes Browser Extension This kind of extension is more likely the same with Metamask/EtherAddressLookup extensions. Creator of this extension has also software for anti-malware. This extension is also good for preventing to access some websites contains malware, link for mozilla add-ons
add-onsThis is where Malwarebytes Browser Extension can help you:Protection from tech support scammers: Blocks browser hijackers, and browser lockers, which are used by scammers to drive victims to call centers that use scare tactics to sell expensive technical support (that you don’t need).
Read more here:
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/malwarebytes-news/betas/2018/07/introducing-malwarebytes-browser-extension/5.Brave Browser - Mobile and Desktop Here comes one of the best project of crypto, created by the Basic Attention Token(BAT). This is quality browser, not only for desktop but they already have on
Android and
IOS. This kind of browser is also the best for Adblocker, such as different ads about crypto, which some are lead to a phishing website or scam websites. If you hate ads, then this browser is good for you and bonus you can get rewarded for browsing.☺
♦Browse up to 3x faster
♦Block ads & trackers that follow you around
♦Get rewarded for browsing
Read more here:
https://brave.com/features/
How to report suspected phishing website?You can use the Report Phishing Page of Google
Link:
https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/Or if you discovered phishing website about crypto, you can use EtherScamDB
Link:
https://www.etherscamdb.info/report6.Email Phishing (Be aware) As what I experienced before, I get randoms emails from some email address (most are imposter of exchnages).
Be aware of those emails that include a phishing link that includes a link contains phishing site.
Like this:
Image: https://www.hackthissite.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=14605&sid=3141f06f1b909e702c2821d34ec91ebeAnd:
Image: https://media.kasperskydaily.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/92/2015/03/06041121/facebook-phishing-example-en.pngAs you can see, it contains suspicious email as seen by the image.
(most of that kinds of emails can be found on your spam folder of your email)
Just always check every link given to you by e-mail.
Do you have more information or tips about phishing/scam websites? feel free to post it below. Let's help our newbies to be free of scammers/hackers in the cryptoworld..