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defoman

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Quote from: johstacy on March 07, 2018, 02:17:35 PM

Just want to remind everyone and the beginner and experienced traders / users about the danger of phishing sites. Before entering your passwords and personal keys, look carefully what is written in the address bar. Learn by heart the sites of exchanges.
If there is one extra letter in the address bar or a dot or a double letter, this is a cloned site (scammers). It looks the same, everything is like on original site, only in the address bar an extra letter, a digit.
Today I switched over the link to watch the course and got on a cloned site. Be careful always.

To protect yourself from phishing, it is enough to follow the basic safety rules on the Internet. 1. Save sites to bookmarks. 2. Invent complex passwords and do not use the same password on different sites. 3. Always enable two-factor authentication if possible. 4. Enter authentication data using the on-screen keyboard. These steps will be enough to protect your account from intruders.

iAMawi123

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Thank you for this reminder! this will surely help us become more aware of the websites that we are entering to. Let's help each other not destroy each other. Let's be reminded that we should take extra caution. Let's try to bookmark the website to really make sure.

jomvill

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based on my opinion The phishing emails usually appears from a known organization and ask for your personal information — such as credit card number, social security number, account number or password. Often times the attempts of phishing seems to be originated from the sites, services and the companies with which you do not even have accounts.

sirenmoon

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Quote from: thepo1m on March 07, 2018, 03:32:04 PM

Thanks for this information metamask help alot to avoid sites like this. Most of the things they do is to change L to capital letter I, which most of the time is difficult to detect. The best thing to do is to bookmark most of the frequently visted site to avoid this phishing websites

I agree that the metamask is truly wonderful in the terms of the security. Even if the people bookmark sites or are being careful there can be just one mistake to get on the phishing and scammy site. The moment the searcher gets there he is vulnerable to hacks or he is already losing his portfolio without his knowing. Safety is on my first place and I hope that I will stay secured in the future. Thank you for the information! Many of the newbies can be reckless and lose their information because of the nonthinking.

Manc89

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Quote from: herurist on March 07, 2018, 02:28:21 PM

Quote from: johstacy on March 07, 2018, 02:17:35 PM

Just want to remind everyone and the beginner and experienced traders / users about the danger of phishing sites. Before entering your passwords and personal keys, look carefully what is written in the address bar. Learn by heart the sites of exchanges.
If there is one extra letter in the address bar or a dot or a double letter, this is a cloned site (scammers). It looks the same, everything is like on original site, only in the address bar an extra letter, a digit.
Today I switched over the link to watch the course and got on a cloned site. Be careful always.

Already do that and my account still safe. Double check the address, never open account in public network and keep our device far a way from other person. Protect our account in many ways use only from transactions activity not for show off. Thank you.

Thanks for remind us. We need to remind each other not to get scam from unresponsible people who want easy money from our hard earn money.
In addition, bookmark the site you normally visit and go through that link everytime you want visit the same site.

rey.fudz15

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Quote from: Igorpap2 on March 07, 2018, 03:38:02 PM

Quote from: johstacy on March 07, 2018, 02:17:35 PM

Just want to remind everyone and the beginner and experienced traders / users about the danger of phishing sites. Before entering your passwords and personal keys, look carefully what is written in the address bar. Learn by heart the sites of exchanges.
If there is one extra letter in the address bar or a dot or a double letter, this is a cloned site (scammers). It looks the same, everything is like on original site, only in the address bar an extra letter, a digit.
Today I switched over the link to watch the course and got on a cloned site. Be careful always.

In order not to fall for FISHINGS sites, I advise you to add all your main sites, wallets and exchanges in the bookmarks bar of your browser...
I once almost fell for a phishing site www.myetherwaliet.com

agreed, i think this is the most safest way of accessing sites especially wallet sites and exchange sites. And also check if there is a secured mark besides the URL.

cryptopusa

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Quote from: johstacy on March 07, 2018, 02:17:35 PM

Just want to remind everyone and the beginner and experienced traders / users about the danger of phishing sites. Before entering your passwords and personal keys, look carefully what is written in the address bar. Learn by heart the sites of exchanges.
If there is one extra letter in the address bar or a dot or a double letter, this is a cloned site (scammers). It looks the same, everything is like on original site, only in the address bar an extra letter, a digit.
Today I switched over the link to watch the course and got on a cloned site. Be careful always.

Metamask could do the job,browsers should be protected to because most of the hackers are taking advantages to the holes from these browsers,normally these phishing sites are identical to the orignal ones only the urls will be different so you better install the metamask extension because it will protect your private keys from these phishing sites,also you will get notified when you are entering potential phishing sites.

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Quote from: johstacy on March 07, 2018, 02:17:35 PM

Just want to remind everyone and the beginner and experienced traders / users about the danger of phishing sites. Before entering your passwords and personal keys, look carefully what is written in the address bar. Learn by heart the sites of exchanges.
If there is one extra letter in the address bar or a dot or a double letter, this is a cloned site (scammers). It looks the same, everything is like on original site, only in the address bar an extra letter, a digit.
Today I switched over the link to watch the course and got on a cloned site. Be careful always.

Which is why it is recommended that we should bookmark sites that we frequently use especially in our tradings. Never click on links in our Email that will take us to the sites of our accounts because this will give access to hackers. A common mistake by many now a days.

dobolspeed3

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I personally also experienced the same thing. When exposed to a phishing link all my coins are lost in the take by the irresponsible person. The phishing links are very similar to the original ones. You will not believe it is a phishing link and when you get exposed maybe your coins will not go away instantly. because they need a process for the transaction. I am exposed to a phishing link for my MEW wallet. It was very uncomfortable and very disappointing.

rachman mahesa

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I personally just experienced it that made me lose my assets. Probably not too much but it is a very nasty theft. Phishing sites are very dangerous. therefore we are always careful.

LodisMcguire

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Yes,you must take extra caution when login in website.Always look for the web address and check if it's a correct one.Also,don't make account with same email and password with your another account,because it's if you register in some shady sites,it's more likely to get your account hacked.

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Quote from: seizetehday5 on March 07, 2018, 03:27:52 PM

Quote from: cryptomorphines on March 07, 2018, 03:17:44 PM

Use hardwallets and metamask extension so that these sites wont have any chance to steal your private keys.Do not trust any extension except metamask that is being recommended by the mew or myetherwallet.com these two are enough even those infected computers with malwares and viruses wont have any chance to the security of these hardwallets.

While you can do that for coins you own, what about exchanges? If you have 2FA on then you are good, but if you don't I have heard of people getting scammed this way. Always put 2FA on wherever possible people!

Well if you are using centralized exchanges you shouldnt be putting all of your money in any exchanges because they are more prone from hacking attacks,just like what fishermans do,they are putting those nets to where most of the fishes swam? so exchanges has a lot of users so they are the primarily targets of these attackers.

Geleve

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yeah there are so many of them nowadays really. they make so good tricks to steal from people. i saw a few example that they just added to points under a letter. not only newbies but also experienced people can easily clck and join without seeing it...

cryptonero

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Phishing sites wont be a big problem when you have installed metamask extension,good antivirus and malwarebytes could easily protect your private keys when you are trading using those decentralized exchanges,further more hardwallets like ledger and trezor could add some more security with your wallet so these are the basic things that you should have if you dont want your funds be stolen by these hackers.

Aura

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Also install HTTPS everywhere browser plugin, it's widely available on most browsers. Before logging in on a web-wallet, look at your address bar if you see "HTTPS" it means that you're using a secure HTTP connection. It doesn't necessary mean that the website is legit, but it can give you a better indication. As SSL certificates are pretty expensive and not worth it for phishing websites. Also some certificates require a high level of inspection before they're distributed to a website, meaning that phishing websites could never get one.

DanWalker

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Quote from: Bttzed03 on March 07, 2018, 02:25:00 PM

Yes. Be extra careful. Better to bookmark the sites you usually such as trading sites, mew and other online wallets. Never open sites from email also that asks personal information.

I agree with you. You have to be very cautious in crypto. There are a lot of cunning cheaters. Make bookmarks in the browser in order not to get on the fraudulent site. And always check the website address.

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Quote from: johstacy on March 07, 2018, 02:17:35 PM

Just want to remind everyone and the beginner and experienced traders / users about the danger of phishing sites. Before entering your passwords and personal keys, look carefully what is written in the address bar. Learn by heart the sites of exchanges.
If there is one extra letter in the address bar or a dot or a double letter, this is a cloned site (scammers). It looks the same, everything is like on original site, only in the address bar an extra letter, a digit.
Today I switched over the link to watch the course and got on a cloned site. Be careful always.

In order not to fall for FISHINGS sites, I advise you to add all your main sites, wallets and exchanges in the bookmarks bar of your browser...
I once almost fell for a phishing site www.myetherwaliet.com

kryptolizak

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I remember airdop of OmiseGO a year ago. I got a message from slack channel that cointained url to website. On this website I could checked how many OmiseGO I would get. There was a small problem. I just needed to enter my address with password! Many users lost their money that time.

So keep your keys in safe! and never ever send them to untrusted websites, applications or just... people.

thepo1m

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Thanks for this information metamask help alot to avoid sites like this. Most of the things they do is to change L to capital letter I, which most of the time is difficult to detect. The best thing to do is to bookmark most of the frenquently visted site to avoid this phishing websites

seizetehday5

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Quote from: cryptomorphines on March 07, 2018, 03:17:44 PM

Use hardwallets and metamask extension so that these sites wont have any chance to steal your private keys.Do not trust any extension except metamask that is being recommended by the mew or myetherwallet.com these two are enough even those infected computers with malwares and viruses wont have any chance to the security of these hardwallets.

While you can do that for coins you own, what about exchanges? If you have 2FA on then you are good, but if you don't I have heard of people getting scammed this way. Always put 2FA on wherever possible people!

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