I mean if you go to a spam email, click that link, it's surely a scam. You do not need to click on any random website to upgrade your Ledger Firmware. It's done by opening the App itself, doesn't require any link clicking. You are actually talking about a phishing scam rather than LEDGER Being a scam itself. You are kind of confused or maybe your native language isn't English.
For others, he/she is referring to a website which is Phishing users by telling them to update their Ledger Firmware.
Topic: Ledger Firmware Update" is a SCAM (Read 96 times)
Usually, these links are sent through emails and the real and actual firm updates happen on the hardware wallet itself. When your email was exposed and taken by these scammers, you'll keep on receiving this type of scam attempt. If you own a Ledger, the firmware update are even posted on their official reddit community ~ https://www.reddit.com/r/ledgerwallet/ and website itself like this ~ https://support.ledger.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002731113-Update-Ledger-Nano-S-firmware?docs=true
That's true, I've edited it as suggested, thanks for the observation, the website itself is a phishing site and has the target of doing the same they are talking about...
Tbh, your post is still confusing and still gives off the impression that your are suggesting Ledger is directly promoting a malware, especially the first paragraph.- Jay -
This is a phishing link and not the real ledger wallet. Your post is a bit confusing because you didn’t mention that this a different scam website to the official website of ledger. Although that Ledger have a controversy before they still didn’t turn into rogue hardware wallet address to scam all their customers blatantly.
Please reconstruct your thread so that newbie will not be mislead by your narrative. This scam “Ledger Firmware Update” is just another scam phishing attempt to impersonate the real Ledger Update. Besides Ledger user can safely update their hardware wallet through ledger live app without going to this kind of shady websites.
Please reconstruct your thread so that newbie will not be mislead by your narrative. This scam “Ledger Firmware Update” is just another scam phishing attempt to impersonate the real Ledger Update. Besides Ledger user can safely update their hardware wallet through ledger live app without going to this kind of shady websites.
That's true, I've edited it as suggested, thanks for the observation, the website itself is a phishing site and has the target of doing the same they are talking about, we have to be more vigilant on websites, downloads and links as well as trying to avoid the use of ledger for privacy sake.
Open Source Hardware Wallets
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/list-open-source-hardware-wallets-5288971
A wallet being open source does nit automatically mean that it is recommended for use. One would still have to assess the different options before choosing one to use. Being open source does not prevent phishing links from being generated and marketed to scam unsuspecting users, which is the case here.https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/list-open-source-hardware-wallets-5288971
- Jay -
You're also right, sometimes we need to have best recommendations from the community like this with their experience in using more than one type of hardware wallets, we can check also the only reviews, not only that, i think its more better to make use of the common and reputable brands of these hardware wallets than the ones we are not used to, its also our responsibility to make research before securing any for personal use.
Such emails are quite common with Ledger. I do recieve such emails from scammers, sometimes they say that my wallet has been compromised and sometimes they send emails to update the firmware. Scammers are intelligent but they are running out of reasons to convince users. All thanks to ledger a lot of email address fell into the hands of scammers after the data breach. To me it is one of the worst hardware wallet and it is better to shift to other hardware wallets that are fully open source.
Open Source Hardware Wallets
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/list-open-source-hardware-wallets-5288971
A wallet being open source does nit automatically mean that it is recommended for use. One would still have to assess the different options before choosing one to use. Being open source does not prevent phishing links from being generated and marketed to scam unsuspecting users, which is the case here.https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/list-open-source-hardware-wallets-5288971
- Jay -
You can see from the URL link of the site which is ledger.critical-updatedotcom which is not the correct URL link for ledge update. That update is not from ledger. Users of other hardware wallets that are common like Trezor are facing the same type of phishing attack. It is people that are using the wallet that should know about phishing scam and avoid it. It can also happen to any other wallet.
I do not recommend ledger wallets also but this should not be the reason.
I do not recommend ledger wallets also but this should not be the reason.
This is a phishing link and not the real ledger wallet. Your post is a bit confusing because you didn’t mention that this a different scam website to the official website of ledger. Although that Ledger have a controversy before they still didn’t turn into rogue hardware wallet address to scam all their customers blatantly.
Please reconstruct your thread so that newbie will not be mislead by your narrative. This scam “Ledger Firmware Update” is just another scam phishing attempt to impersonate the real Ledger Update. Besides Ledger user can safely update their hardware wallet through ledger live app without going to this kind of shady websites.
Please reconstruct your thread so that newbie will not be mislead by your narrative. This scam “Ledger Firmware Update” is just another scam phishing attempt to impersonate the real Ledger Update. Besides Ledger user can safely update their hardware wallet through ledger live app without going to this kind of shady websites.
"Ledger Firmware Update" is a SCAM
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AVOID THE WEBSITE LINK PROVIDED AS WELL BECAUSE ITS ALSO A PHYSHING LINK SITE IN ATTEMPT
If your are into cryptocurrency, then try as much as possible to avoid the use of ledger hardware wallet, if you have been having one before now, then try to avoid being scammed and follow the recent information updates concerning the new threat on scam through the introduction of a Latest Firmware Update with the information below, once you confirmed for this update, It turns a crypto drainer attack on your asset,
You can make a choice from the list of recommendable hardware wallets that are open source while you can see that ledger which is a close source is not included because of their privacy bridge.
Open Source Hardware Wallets
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/list-open-source-hardware-wallets-5288971
Link
AVOID THE WEBSITE LINK PROVIDED AS WELL BECAUSE ITS ALSO A PHYSHING LINK SITE IN ATTEMPT
If your are into cryptocurrency, then try as much as possible to avoid the use of ledger hardware wallet, if you have been having one before now, then try to avoid being scammed and follow the recent information updates concerning the new threat on scam through the introduction of a Latest Firmware Update with the information below, once you confirmed for this update, It turns a crypto drainer attack on your asset,
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After inspecting this "Ledger Firmware Update", we determined that it is a scam. It states that the user's Ledger wallet requires a firmware update. However, once a wallet is exposed to the scam – it begins operating as a cryptocurrency drainer.https://www.pcrisk.com/removal-guides/29137-ledger-firmware-update-scam
You can make a choice from the list of recommendable hardware wallets that are open source while you can see that ledger which is a close source is not included because of their privacy bridge.
Open Source Hardware Wallets
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/list-open-source-hardware-wallets-5288971
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