Scam targeting Metamask wallet user's - page 2.

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Quote from: Nwada001 on June 09, 2023, 02:01:05 PM

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I always received emails like this every time on my email. You have to set your email to throw an email like this on junk. I did it, when I look at junk, about a hundred emails like this (because a long time ago, I used my email for anything registered). But sometimes, if strong, an email is received also in my email inbox. Again, when they ask for a seed and private key, that was pretty sure is a scam, it's the same if a swindler (fake bank support) calls you asking CC number and CVV to deceive the OTP code on a short message.

So just be careful, scammers are lurking victims everywhere, the scammer needs money without working.

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Quote from: Nwada001 on June 09, 2023, 02:01:05 PM

I just got a message from some scammer claiming to be Metamask with the statement that my Metamask wallet needs an upgrade.
Some questions just bomb into my head.

How ??
How can Metamask need an upgrade that requires them to send me a message?

They are not MetaMask but scammers who make it and all they need is your email address and make sure that you have posted your Ethereum address publicly, then the possibility that you have used MetaMask is high, they can collect this information via a social attack while sending this e-mail does not cost them effort or time.

Quote from: Nwada001 on June 09, 2023, 02:01:05 PM

I moved the mail to my Apple device, which I don't use for anything relating to financial transactions. I clicked on the link provided by the scammers for the upgrade process.

This is a big mistake. If you think that is a scam link, clicking on it will not change anything. They can now open your camera, take pictures of you or collect more data such as cookies, including knowing more information about you to use in next social attack.
If you are suspicious of a link, stop with the mouse on it, and the link extension will appear to you, and if that extension is hidden or a redirect link, do not click on it.

Quote from: Nwada001 on June 09, 2023, 02:01:05 PM

But what I saw was an open form for me to use my hand and type in my 12-word phrase, which is handing my wallet access over to the scammer or using the private key option.

If you enter any random words they accept.

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Quote from: Ultegra134 on June 09, 2023, 03:30:18 PM

Quote from: Nwada001 on June 09, 2023, 02:01:05 PM

I just got a message from some scammer claiming to be Metamask with the statement that my Metamask wallet needs an upgrade.
Some questions just bomb into my head.

How ??
How can Metamask need an upgrade that requires them to send me a message?
How does Metamask even get in touch with my email?
Or do the scammers think users need to create an account with Metamask before they can use it? Or maybe Metamask looks like a centralized exchange for them, or they don't actually know how the blockchain system works. I overlooked the message the first time, and I still got it on my second email.

I moved the mail to my Apple device, which I don't use for anything relating to financial transactions. I clicked on the link provided by the scammers for the upgrade process.
I was even expecting some kind of random cloned Metamask auto-download stuff or anything of that nature, or maybe they can just show me a blank window explaining why they are accessing my entire device. But what I saw was an open form for me to use my hand and type in my 12-word phrase, which is handing my wallet access over to the scammer or using the private key option.
Scammer site

Code:

https://new-matamask.com/myimport/

The website you provided seems to be down already. I'm wondering who in their right mind would fall for such a scam. It's so obvious that it's a fake phishing email; why would Metamask ever contact you? How would your account be disabled? It's not a PayPal or eBay account to be disabled. I'm hoping no one falls for this.

To answer the previous poster, email addresses are possibly leaked through database leaks and used to distribute such emails in an attempt to lure potential victims. It's likely that the list of scammers used to be associated with a cryptocurrency-related website in order to have some kind of correlation and have higher chances of luring potential victims.

Still there are newbies will fall with that schemes since mostly they are the one easy to be catch by them since those people who don't inow about the schemes or attempt might believe that the email they receive is true. So since we know that this phising attempt exist they should do their own diligence to verify because if we track back on the first day we create our wallet on metamask the platform didn't require us to provide email address. So if we receive the same like email we can tag it as scam or it create harm so that we can easily delete it before it create damage to us.

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If you received an email like that where there is no email involved in creating an account or wallet then your email is compromised and part of scammers' database and you have to weed out your emails to see what emails are coming out to unknown sources, so you can report it as spam and all emails like this will not go to your main folders.

When it comes to receiving phishing emails common sense is always the key to knowing the basics of securing your funds, so all emails that asked for private keys should go to spam folders for deletion.

When you received spam like that expect many more to come this is why it's important to only use your email to a trusted source and if you're participating in airdrops use a different specifically for that.

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Quote from: Nwada001 on June 09, 2023, 02:01:05 PM

I just got a message from some scammer claiming to be Metamask with the statement that my Metamask wallet needs an upgrade.
Some questions just bomb into my head.

How ??
How can Metamask need an upgrade that requires them to send me a message?
How does Metamask even get in touch with my email?
Or do the scammers think users need to create an account with Metamask before they can use it? Or maybe Metamask looks like a centralized exchange for them, or they don't actually know how the blockchain system works. I overlooked the message the first time, and I still got it on my second email.

I moved the mail to my Apple device, which I don't use for anything relating to financial transactions. I clicked on the link provided by the scammers for the upgrade process.
I was even expecting some kind of random cloned Metamask auto-download stuff or anything of that nature, or maybe they can just show me a blank window explaining why they are accessing my entire device. But what I saw was an open form for me to use my hand and type in my 12-word phrase, which is handing my wallet access over to the scammer or using the private key option.
Scammer site

Code:

https://new-matamask.com/myimport/

The website you provided seems to be down already. I'm wondering who in their right mind would fall for such a scam. It's so obvious that it's a fake phishing email; why would Metamask ever contact you? How would your account be disabled? It's not a PayPal or eBay account to be disabled. I'm hoping no one falls for this.

To answer the previous poster, email addresses are possibly leaked through database leaks and used to distribute such emails in an attempt to lure potential victims. It's likely that the list of scammers used to be associated with a cryptocurrency-related website in order to have some kind of correlation and have higher chances of luring potential victims.

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As far as I know, you don't need to provide your email address or any other personal information to create a wallet with metamask. Therefore, this is without any doubt a phishing email. The real question is: where dud those scammers got your email address from? You said you received the same message on two different addresses, so you need to check what you have done wrong!
Anyway, thank you for the warning.

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I just got a message from some scammer claiming to be Metamask with the statement that my Metamask wallet needs an upgrade.
Some questions just bomb into my head.

How ??
How can Metamask need an upgrade that requires them to send me a message?
How does Metamask even get in touch with my email?
Or do the scammers think users need to create an account with Metamask before they can use it? Or maybe Metamask looks like a centralized exchange for them, or they don't actually know how the blockchain system works. I overlooked the message the first time, and I still got it on my second email.

I moved the mail to my Apple device, which I don't use for anything relating to financial transactions. I clicked on the link provided by the scammers for the upgrade process.
I was even expecting some kind of random cloned Metamask auto-download stuff or anything of that nature, or maybe they can just show me a blank window explaining why they are accessing my entire device. But what I saw was an open form for me to use my hand and type in my 12-word phrase, which is handing my wallet access over to the scammer or using the private key option.
Scammer site

Code:

https://new-matamask.com/myimport/

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