All kind of wallet not only trustwallet atually. I received messages the same like that with different wallet like metamask, ledger, exodus, sometimes electrum lmao. I usually found them on spam folder although there are some who got filtered out, some of them have google docs attached and make them not go to spam for some reasons.
I do not make the mistake clicking any of such mail when ever scammers send them. Already they get filtered and sent to my junk box which indicates that those mails are not trusted. There was a period I click on one of them and immediately it dawned on me that the mail was a possible scam mail I stopped it immediately. Guess what? I checked my browser to see the for myself I noticed some strange link with codes on my browser which possibly means it was a possible malware to infiltrate my device as to grant the hackers access to my details. After that I decided not to click on any mail of such nature again. 
Topic: Scammers sending messages of trust wallet verification. (Read 301 times)
All kind of wallet not only trustwallet atually. I received messages the same like that with different wallet like metamask, ledger, exodus, sometimes electrum lmao. I usually found them on spam folder although there are some who got filtered out, some of them have google docs attached and make them not go to spam for some reasons.
There is every tendency that out of 10 users you encounter as a Crypto enthusiast virtual all of them or minimum of 8 of them are using trust wallet. So therefore there is every possibility that they the scammers can send such mails out to possible crypto related mails to see if they could try their luck in gaining access into people's account. This could also happen whenever there is a hack on third parties holding custody of exchanges details and others as well. So I am not surprised seeing such mail in my box and it was sent to the right place where it belongs as to indicate it is a scam.
All I could say is that every one should be careful the links they click on their mail because it can be very porous and dangerous as well as any mistake made would cost them their assets and other vital information that are sensitive to protect.
Trust Wallet, Metamask, and other famous wallets and exchange platforms, and I can say that all cryptocurrency investors in general for all wallets and platforms are targeted. These messages are sent randomly to them, and unlucky and inexperienced is the one who trusts his email messages and clicks on the phishing link and provides them with sensitive access information to his wallet, connects his wallet to their traps, or sends them his own KYC documents "Without knowing that decentralized wallets do not require KYC from their customers" or download any files without checking the sender's email, or by not conducting his research to find out the sincerity of the message, it is better not to trust at all in email messages, whether it is a new email that is not disclosed to the public, because if the person is lazy or unexpert in recognizing the legitimacy and sincerity of the message then he will be hacked and stolen at the push of a button.All I could say is that every one should be careful the links they click on their mail because it can be very porous and dangerous as well as any mistake made would cost them their assets and other vital information that are sensitive to protect.
Your point is very clear sir. Most of such messages are really tricky and in some cases,newbies are trapped in them as they have no knowledge about them. It is generally known that decentralized wallets are self custodial wallets that needs no KYC or otherwise to verify or validate a wallet but for the fact that it is too real to be real, the victims are likely newbies out of their curiosity to know which way forward, they fall in and expose themselves either by responding with their documents or leaking their seed phrase as the novice they are. AS you have said, laziness is another factor that causes most of these hacks. The victims are too lazy to just take some few minutes to do some research or surf the internet to know what is obtainable before attempting whatever they have received via mail.
Self consciousness and alertness plays a good role in being alert and vigilant to protecting your assets. One must take some steps forward to do the needful by taking time to do some research if they are not really clear with whatever comes their way which they feel is not secured enough for them to take decision.
There is every tendency that out of 10 users you encounter as a Crypto enthusiast virtual all of them or minimum of 8 of them are using trust wallet. So therefore there is every possibility that they the scammers can send such mails out to possible crypto related mails to see if they could try their luck in gaining access into people's account. This could also happen whenever there is a hack on third parties holding custody of exchanges details and others as well. So I am not surprised seeing such mail in my box and it was sent to the right place where it belongs as to indicate it is a scam.
All I could say is that every one should be careful the links they click on their mail because it can be very porous and dangerous as well as any mistake made would cost them their assets and other vital information that are sensitive to protect.
Trust Wallet, Metamask, and other famous wallets and exchange platforms, and I can say that all cryptocurrency investors in general for all wallets and platforms are targeted. These messages are sent randomly to them, and unlucky and inexperienced is the one who trusts his email messages and clicks on the phishing link and provides them with sensitive access information to his wallet, connects his wallet to their traps, or sends them his own KYC documents "Without knowing that decentralized wallets do not require KYC from their customers" or download any files without checking the sender's email, or by not conducting his research to find out the sincerity of the message, it is better not to trust at all in email messages, whether it is a new email that is not disclosed to the public, because if the person is lazy or unexpert in recognizing the legitimacy and sincerity of the message then he will be hacked and stolen at the push of a button. All I could say is that every one should be careful the links they click on their mail because it can be very porous and dangerous as well as any mistake made would cost them their assets and other vital information that are sensitive to protect.
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I have been using Trust Wallet for a long time now, but for one day it has not requested that I add my email, so I am even wondering how they managed to get your email, which is still enough reason to believe that it was a scam. Although I did not receive such an email, even if I had seen anything like that, I would just know it was a scam and nothing else. Lately, I have migrated from using Trust Wallet to using BlueWallet because I learned that Trust Wallet is not even rated as one of the best and most secure mobile Bitcoin wallets to use. In the past, I have received countless notifications from the trust wallet app, and they would always ask me to link my wallet somewhere and claim some tokens for airdrop sake, which I usually don't agree to receiving those their free bullshit token.
This scam is obvious to anyone who has experience but we can say trust wallet can record your private keys and steal them at any time they want. It is true that they have not done that yet, but anything is possible. I'm surprised how they got your email address and made sure that you downloaded the trust wallet. In general, your wallet should be in separate devices from the Internet and from anything related to CEXs.
I don't know if the problem was from trust wallet because trust wallet has nothing to do with email but I feel the mail might be from one of this scamners out their, I still wonder what does trust wallet has to do with email. People just need to be careful with their wallet because the level at which scam is going is beyond the imagination of the human reasoning . Scamners are already aware that lots of users are making use of trust wallet , it could be a random mail that was sent to lot of users using the trust wallet for hodling Bitcoin and other crypto.All I could say is that every one should be careful the links they click on their mail because it can be very porous and dangerous as well as any mistake made would cost them their assets and other vital information that are sensitive to protect.
My memory is vague for this matter, but if it is correct [and there is a good --not huge, just good-- chance that it serves me wrong] there are campaigns in the past that required their participants to enroll with their email as PoA. So, even without the forum's address database gotten breached, some emails are accessible for scam attempt.
Not that I'm saying OP got his email breached from that method, just... pointing out a small fact. I think it's more likely OP got "compromised" from database auction.
Edit: verifying that my memory does serve me correctly.
your memory is so sharp and there was some compaigns In past asking for optional mail. One compaign i found is Tori finance where some users used mail in POA. The latest one is Solid trade email is used in POA
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.60821630
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/toriifinance-twitter-campaign-earn-25-a-week-in-btc-ended-5368621
I have checked OP history and OP didn't used email in POA in any compaign. I think OP used mail address for registration in any airdrops projects and data has been leaked. scammers mostly collected data from these source and send mail to all mail using software at once.
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What I'm thinking is that these dipshit scammers got their e-mail list dump from one of the big data breaches in the crypto space, maybe Ledger. Hell, maybe even bitcointalk if e-mail addresses were accessible.
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What I'm thinking is that these dipshit scammers got their e-mail list dump from one of the big data breaches in the crypto space, maybe Ledger. Hell, maybe even bitcointalk if e-mail addresses were accessible.
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My memory is vague for this matter, but if it is correct [and there is a good --not huge, just good-- chance that it serves me wrong] there are campaigns in the past that required their participants to enroll with their email as PoA. So, even without the forum's address database gotten breached, some emails are accessible for scam attempt.
Not that I'm saying OP got his email breached from that method, just... pointing out a small fact. I think it's more likely OP got "compromised" from database auction.
Edit: verifying that my memory does serve me correctly.
Another thing got me curious, how did they get your email address ? From the little time I have operated trust wallet you don’t really require an email to sign up there since it’s a non-custodial wallet so how did they send you an email?
That's the first thing I thought, too, because I've played around with many different wallets (Trust being one of them, and I'm not a fan) and I can't think of a single one that requires an e-mail address--and certainly Trust didn't. What I'm thinking is that these dipshit scammers got their e-mail list dump from one of the big data breaches in the crypto space, maybe Ledger. Hell, maybe even bitcointalk if e-mail addresses were accessible. With so many of them, the chances are that there would be a decent number of recipients who use the Trust wallet, and it would only take a small number of suckers with large balances to make the scheme worthwhile.
But I wonder if anyone did fall for this shit. Sometimes I see various crypto subreddits in which people confess to getting scammed by methods like this one, but they aren't numerous as far as I can tell.
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So far to the best of my knowledge, third party wallets are just service providers and have no right to request for verification purposes otherwise they might be dumped by their users. If any wallet ask you for KYC then it means that they are not serious for business or they are scammers in disguise.
But if you have not passed KYC verification on their partner exchange, then the exchange will ask for your documents and every other required information for the verification, once you submit the requested documents and get verified on the exchanged, your address on the non custodial wallet will also get a verified badge automatically..
The verification is very optional though, its not mandatory at all, i think they implemented solely as a way to discourage fraud in between the wallet users..
This scam is obvious to anyone who has experience but we can say trust wallet can record your private keys and steal them at any time they want. It is true that they have not done that yet, but anything is possible. I'm surprised how they got your email address and made sure that you downloaded the trust wallet. In general, your wallet should be in separate devices from the Internet and from anything related to CEXs.
I don't know if the problem was from trust wallet because trust wallet has nothing to do with email but I feel the mail might be from one of this scamners out their, I still wonder what does trust wallet has to do with email. People just need to be careful with their wallet because the level at which scam is going is beyond the imagination of the human reasoning . Scamners are already aware that lots of users are making use of trust wallet , it could be a random mail that was sent to lot of users using the trust wallet for hodling Bitcoin and other crypto. 
This scam is obvious to anyone who has experience but we can say trust wallet can record your private keys and steal them at any time they want. It is true that they have not done that yet, but anything is possible. I'm surprised how they got your email address and made sure that you downloaded the trust wallet. In general, your wallet should be in separate devices from the Internet and from anything related to CEXs.
If any wallet ask you for KYC then it means that they are not serious for business or they are scammers in disguise.
They are scammer and they received your email from data hack.It's same for Ledger too. I always receive emails where it ask me to verify Ledger live and reinstall it. They give a button / a link to visit and to download it from there. Once you download and install or click the link, you are in danger. Somehow they will get some kind of access from your system to harm you.
Obviously they are scammers because I see no reasons why trust wallet would send such a message and come to talk of it, trust wallet does not require one to install their app by providing details such as email for validation but rather you install and create your wallet address or possibly import an already existing wallet. So I do not think trust wallet could send such a message. Right from the time I first saw the mail I knew it was a Scam attempt and as you have said, it might not be far from the truth as I have been receiving unsolicited messages in various languages all in my junk box including this one I uploaded here for view. It is possible that there is a data hack somewhere which might have revealed information or details of clients registered with such organization.
It is so dissappointing to see such a thing happening and the organizations seems not to care about it by informing their clients of the hack while advising them to be on a high alert if they keep receiving unsolicited messages from scammers or elsewhere. Maybe they are afraid of legal actions for the reasons being that data got hacked as a result of their carelessness.
Same question I am asking myself till this moment. Trust wallet need not my email for me to open a wallet neither do they need any documents or details for me to use. Now I begin to think that possibly details have been traded else where because I barely fill my mail any where only for exchanges and casino and of lately, I have been receiving series of junk mails which this is also amongst them. Although I do not receive mails of such nature in the past but to my greatest surprise I started receiving series of messages back to back from different languages in their thirties and forties straight every day that it is becoming ridiculous and embarrassing. I am just tired of deleting junk mails every day which is beginning to irritate me.
I wish I could just block them all. It's very frustrating.
You need to be very careful and ensure you change your password and carry out other security measures. When you are giving out emails to third-party service providers make sure it is not your primary email or phone number. Having a casual mail or phone number for such registration and transactions will be the best option to avoid attacks on your main accounts. I have seen people lose money because they exposed their main emails to exchanges and their email was hacked when hackers had access to the exchange. I wish I could just block them all. It's very frustrating.
There's something weird happened with me yesterday. I still can't exactly find out what happened with me and how that happened.
I was checking my Trust Wallet after a long time and checking the NFT section as I had an NFT from Binance and some other. Suddenly I found that there were some spammy NFT too. They were like $5000 USDC voucher etc. I checked all of them. Just checked. Nothing else I did.
After that, I sent some ETH from my wallet to my exchange. I noticed a notification on BNB balance too. After checking out, I found a pending tx there. Don't know why but the transaction wasn't confirmed ever either. I had a quick search of the address and it turned out that I know the owner of the address.
Later, after few hours, I decided to move all the fund I had there. When I moved, I found another notification on the BNB balance. One more pending tx was there. Same thing happened, the tx wasn't confirmed. Again I did a google with the address and found he is a bounty hunter.
Can anyone explain what exactly happened with me? I haven't been scammed but it seems there was a scam attempt. Can someone explain this?
I was checking my Trust Wallet after a long time and checking the NFT section as I had an NFT from Binance and some other. Suddenly I found that there were some spammy NFT too. They were like $5000 USDC voucher etc. I checked all of them. Just checked. Nothing else I did.
After that, I sent some ETH from my wallet to my exchange. I noticed a notification on BNB balance too. After checking out, I found a pending tx there. Don't know why but the transaction wasn't confirmed ever either. I had a quick search of the address and it turned out that I know the owner of the address.
Later, after few hours, I decided to move all the fund I had there. When I moved, I found another notification on the BNB balance. One more pending tx was there. Same thing happened, the tx wasn't confirmed. Again I did a google with the address and found he is a bounty hunter.
Can anyone explain what exactly happened with me? I haven't been scammed but it seems there was a scam attempt. Can someone explain this?
A member created a thread about something similar to what you have said and from the looks, it seems what you have said is not different from what was discussed and uploaded on that thread which link I provided below.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.62767612
From your explanations I think there was an attempt on you if not how can there be a triggered transaction waiting for your approval when in the right sense from your explanations you did not do any of such. Possibly, some one must have been monitoring your wallet address or possibly the attack sent in form of nft has a dust effect on wallets that triggers transactions waiting for the wallet owner to approve of it.
I think you moving your assets out from that wallet was the best smart option taken so as to protect your funds from being stolen. If you read that thread, you will find out that the nft is definitely a dust attack on wallets so it will be in a good idea one who received such do the needful gbby transferring away their assets from the corrupted wallet before the unexplainable happens.
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There's something weird happened with me yesterday. I still can't exactly find out what happened with me and how that happened.
I was checking my Trust Wallet after a long time and checking the NFT section as I had an NFT from Binance and some other. Suddenly I found that there were some spammy NFT too. They were like $5000 USDC voucher etc. I checked all of them. Just checked. Nothing else I did.
After that, I sent some ETH from my wallet to my exchange. I noticed a notification on BNB balance too. After checking out, I found a pending tx there. Don't know why but the transaction wasn't confirmed ever either. I had a quick search of the address and it turned out that I know the owner of the address.
Later, after few hours, I decided to move all the fund I had there. When I moved, I found another notification on the BNB balance. One more pending tx was there. Same thing happened, the tx wasn't confirmed. Again I did a google with the address and found he is a bounty hunter.
Can anyone explain what exactly happened with me? I haven't been scammed but it seems there was a scam attempt. Can someone explain this?
I was checking my Trust Wallet after a long time and checking the NFT section as I had an NFT from Binance and some other. Suddenly I found that there were some spammy NFT too. They were like $5000 USDC voucher etc. I checked all of them. Just checked. Nothing else I did.
After that, I sent some ETH from my wallet to my exchange. I noticed a notification on BNB balance too. After checking out, I found a pending tx there. Don't know why but the transaction wasn't confirmed ever either. I had a quick search of the address and it turned out that I know the owner of the address.
Later, after few hours, I decided to move all the fund I had there. When I moved, I found another notification on the BNB balance. One more pending tx was there. Same thing happened, the tx wasn't confirmed. Again I did a google with the address and found he is a bounty hunter.
Can anyone explain what exactly happened with me? I haven't been scammed but it seems there was a scam attempt. Can someone explain this?
Same question I am asking myself till this moment. Trust wallet need not my email for me to open a wallet neither do they need any documents or details for me to use. Now I begin to think that possibly details have been traded else where because I barely fill my mail any where only for exchanges and casino and of lately, I have been receiving series of junk mails which this is also amongst them. Although I do not receive mails of such nature in the past but to my greatest surprise I started receiving series of messages back to back from different languages in their thirties and forties straight every day that it is becoming ridiculous and embarrassing. I am just tired of deleting junk mails every day which is beginning to irritate me.
I wish I could just block them all. It's very frustrating.
I wish I could just block them all. It's very frustrating.
Not trying to be out of topic, but... does one of the casino you use to enroll to happen to be the recent one that's got into the spotlight, betnomi? Because IIRC --and by it, I mean I confirmed my memory by searching the posts and reading them again-- many users of betnomi got nice waves of spam in their inbox. So maybe that's where it came from.
If any wallet ask you for KYC then it means that they are not serious for business or they are scammers in disguise.
They are scammer and they received your email from data hack.It's same for Ledger too. I always receive emails where it ask me to verify Ledger live and reinstall it. They give a button / a link to visit and to download it from there. Once you download and install or click the link, you are in danger. Somehow they will get some kind of access from your system to harm you.
Phising links are easily recognisable but problem is that, as a newbie sometimes we don't much about these scams attempt and we put our paraphrase by thinking as a legit. I remembered when i was newbie I opened phising Metamask website and putted my phrase key then after doing multiple attempt to open wallet i recognize it's that its phising attempt. Scammers doing different tracks to cheat. some tricks are easy recognized like mail, telegram dm while some malware attempt are not easy to recognize and hackers got access to our wallet. These attempts are made through games, software and when we download it from unknown sites , malware leak our personal data.
In online work we have to be smart enough and shouldn't allow scammers to break security. I recieved many mail for Binance fake app update, ATM password change, Metamask update but still i am safe as i have never opened these spamming messages.
In online work we have to be smart enough and shouldn't allow scammers to break security. I recieved many mail for Binance fake app update, ATM password change, Metamask update but still i am safe as i have never opened these spamming messages.
Sometimes, it is possible for the most cautious person receiving the email to lower their guard and click the phishing mail. It is unfortunate but people do get drawn in to scams for one reason or another. If these types of scams were not profitable for the scammers they would probably stop and move on to other ways trying to scam.
I barely click anything that goes to my email anymore. If I can verify the email address that it's sent from, I may open it, but unless I am expecting an email, I usually just let them be.
It's crazy how many people would still be fooled by the type of email you are posting about though.
It's crazy how many people would still be fooled by the type of email you are posting about though.
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