Now that the crypto market is on an up trend, it is easy to assume that there are a lot of new users coming to the crypto market. The activities of scammers are increasing by competing with the market. And by exploiting this state of the market, scammers are looking for ways to trap newcomers to every step.
The most commonly used method by scammers today is to create phishing websites fake giveaway/ airdrop. This allows scammers to easily scam new crypto users. These scams are far more dangerous than the fake giveaway of the rules for sending funds. Because once a victim sent money of a scam, people realize that he has been cheated. And there is no risk to the rest of their wallet funds. So he will not make such a mistake second time. But these Private key theft scams are very risky in this case. Because if a crypto user gives the private key of their hodl fund wallet to join this airdrop, then his entire fund will be taken by the scammers.Then there is nothing left for them to do, they face huge losses due to their own mistakes and greed.
Because there is a misconception among the newcomers that it is possible to make a quick profit from crypto. So they participated in everything in the hope of a quick profit, and the scammers continue to exploit this greed of the newcomers. So our responsibility is to keep newcomers away from such scams, to give them accurate information about crypto. I think the method that scammers are currently using to steal private keys should be discussed in detail. So I am creating this thread.
I'm trying to discuss in detail, using Ocean's fake airdrop website as an example.
The first page contains a detailed discussion of their purpose. This page discusses as many tempting offers as possible, making people more interested in this airdrop of scammers. They put more information on this page about the fund hold in the wallet.
This page is designed to collect information about the wallet address and the number of funds held in that address. The second step is to collect such general information. After providing this information, their real purpose will be understood in the next step.
This page is for the most important scammers as well as crypto users. Because if the crypto users provide the information that the scammers want on this page, they will lose all the funds in their wallet. They will force you differently to send your wallet confidential information to them. Scammers have created this website only for this page.
And here is some information about the wallet. They want the private key of these wallets from you. So you have to be careful at every step in the crypto world.
The private key of your wallet is a very secret thing not to share it with anyone. It is very important to know well about those things before investing in anything. You don't have to provide a private key to get the official airdrop, the main purpose of those who say to provide your private key is to gain access to your wallet. So be smart yourself and fu** the scammers.