Trust wallet attempt phishing be careful

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Quote from: Mayor of ogba on November 04, 2024, 09:00:56 AM

Op, if you check the image on your post very well, you will notice that Coinbase is written on the image, which shows that the 0.39083869 BTC was sent to the Coinbase exchange from an external bitcoin account, and it will take up to 3 network confirmations before it can be available to trade on the Coinbase exchange, which indicates that the 0.39083869 is not even in Trust wallet but on a centralized exchange. You were carried away by the amount of bitcoin in that email you received, and you failed to examine the email very well; if not, you would have noticed that the email was a phishing link and the scammer cropped out the image from the email Coinbase exchange sent him to notify him that his 0.39083869 bitcoin has arrived at Coinbase exchange account. Next time you receive an email like this, always examine it very well to see if the link attached to the email is worth linking so that you will not expose yourself to scammers, which will cause you to lose your assets to scammers.

Go back and read the entire message on the thread again, because from the look of things you are entirely off topic with this reply, instead of you to focused on the subject matter, you are busy judging me as if I have accepted this offer of 0.33+BTC, all what this thread is all about is to warn us about a potential phishing attempts, and I already Posted the image of the email and also made my comment about it pointing out everything that is involved.

So why making your statement sounds as if I have already failed victims to this phishing attempts, you may have to go back and read my entire message again, by then you may understand better.

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Quote from: Ojima-ojo on October 30, 2024, 03:58:20 PM

Today I received an email that a deposit of 0.3+BTC deposits is being processed on my trust wallet, immediately my brain Skip to think which large transactions I was expecting, but none at that point I suspected a fawl play and became sceptical about the whole thing, and in the email included a link to view the transaction, and when I clicked on it on my secured browser, it took me to a page that demanded for a wallet key's, at that point it becomes clear that it was a phishing attempt.

Everyone be careful of such an email, most especially newbies, be careful of free money and never input your wallet key anywhere unless you initiate your wallet recovery yourself.

Op, if you check the image on your post very well, you will notice that Coinbase is written on the image, which shows that the 0.39083869 BTC was sent to the Coinbase exchange from an external bitcoin account, and it will take up to 3 network confirmations before it can be available to trade on the Coinbase exchange, which indicates that the 0.39083869 is not even in Trust wallet but on a centralized exchange. You were carried away by the amount of bitcoin in that email you received, and you failed to examine the email very well; if not, you would have noticed that the email was a phishing link and the scammer cropped out the image from the email Coinbase exchange sent him to notify him that his 0.39083869 bitcoin has arrived at Coinbase exchange account. Next time you receive an email like this, always examine it very well to see if the link attached to the email is worth linking so that you will not expose yourself to scammers, which will cause you to lose your assets to scammers.

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Quote from: Ojima-ojo on October 30, 2024, 03:58:20 PM

... and when I clicked on it on my secured browser, it took me to a page that demanded for a wallet key's, at that point it becomes clear that it was a phishing attempt.

You did well by sounding that alarm, though I haven't got that issue with my TW app. Your alertness saved the day for you. I've always maintained that lack of scrutiny and hastiness are the major factors that get people easily scammed. That's why I'm never in a haste while attending to transactions. I take all the time I can get to get it right at once.

Trust me, there are going to be some people who will go pass where you stopped and give out their keys because of their greed that they're about to get that "mirage" of an incoming transaction. It's all false.

Quote from: EL MOHA on October 30, 2024, 04:10:38 PM

Clicking link might have got your device contaminated already, some of the contaminants could be a clipboard malware so I will advice you still put an eye out for that

You're right on that advice. OP should check his device and other wallet apps to see if his funds are still intact after exploring that link like he did. There could be malware somewhere.

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Since when does TrustWallet send emails? This is the most ridiculous thing that scammers can come up with, hoping for the greed of the owners of this wallet. But those who use TrustWallet should not pay attention to such letters, let alone follow the links. I always laugh at those people who expect to receive an inheritance from relatives while being orphans. In the same way, one can metaphorically define the desire of people to follow links from those organizations from which no letters are expected to come at all.

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Anyone can create more harm losing their coin due to ignorance, honestly speaking for the fact you never expected something as such you should know it’s either a mistake or scam practice. Email address is definitely different because at the moment it’s either you’re clueless or you forgot Trust wallet don’t have any detailed information about your address but I’m curious to know how they connected this whole situation attaching Trust wallet, clicking the link is another dangerous move because scammers always look for different ways to steal aside that I don’t think they’ll ever succeed expect a newbie.

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Quote from: knowngunman on November 03, 2024, 04:02:41 AM

I see something like click the link to process the transaction in the mail. Am I too dumb or is there any way a receiver can process a blockchain transaction?

Not you, but surprisingly, some people are so dumb that they would click on that link, and even input everything the scammers are asking for only because they have read the part in the email where it said you have received 0.3 BTC which they assume might be true and they might get that amount if they follow the steps. I know, who would be such a fool? But believe me, there are too many people in this world who would get easily fooled even with things that are way more obvious than this.

Why do you think scammers succeed in so many cases? It's not that what they do is perfect and one cannot suspect it at all, but it's because those who are getting scammed are too naive to understand what is happening and they do everything they are asked to do. The reasons are both, a lack of knowledge and some greed deep inside that make a person get scammed.

Someone who understands that something that sounds too good to be true is not true would never get scammed.

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Quote from: MusaMohamed on October 31, 2024, 02:20:48 AM

It's too good to be true and if you receive 0.3+ BTC from someone sent it to you, by mistake surely mistake in this case, you need to refund the sender.

So only greed people believe in this scam, and are greed enough to ignore a refund to non scammer sender for a mistake sending transaction, so these people deserve to be scammed.

As receiver, they need to know they can not interfere the waiting transaction, if they don't use Child Pay for Parents.
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There's no need to refund the sender if a person truly sent that amount of btc but to just sent it back. Why would you refund the whole amount when it's not your fault that the sender mistakenly sent the BTC (if it's real). CFNP is useless in my opinion since the sender can only interfer the transaction and can't cancel it or even reverse. It's always the greedy people who fall for this type of scam so there's no question about it.

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Quote from: MusaMohamed on October 31, 2024, 02:20:48 AM

It's too good to be true and if you receive 0.3+ BTC from someone sent it to you, by mistake surely mistake in this case, you need to refund the sender.

So only greed people believe in this scam, and are greed enough to ignore a refund to non scammer sender for a mistake sending transaction, so these people deserve to be scammed.

As receiver, they need to know they can not interfere the waiting transaction, if they don't use Child Pay for Parents.
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Is it really necessary to refund such funds? I don't think so because any attempts to interact or entertain such cases is highly risky. The best thing to do is to just ignore the mail or mark it as spam to stop further mail from them coming directly to your inbox. Unless for newbies, there are several errors in that message which shows it did not emanate from the appropriate source. I see something like click the link to process the transaction in the mail. Am I too dumb or is there any way a receiver can process a blockchain transaction? Assuming the mail is genuine, as a receiver you're not suppose to do anything when receiving a fund other than waiting for the transaction to be confirmed in the blockchain.

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Quote from: Ojima-ojo on October 30, 2024, 03:58:20 PM

Today I received an email that a deposit of 0.3+BTC deposits is being processed on my trust wallet, immediately my brain Skip to think which large transactions I was expecting, but none at that point I suspected a fawl play and became sceptical about the whole thing, and in the email included a link to view the transaction, and when I clicked on it on my secured browser, it took me to a page that demanded for a wallet key's, at that point it becomes clear that it was a phishing attempt.

Everyone be careful of such an email, most especially newbies, be careful of free money and never input your wallet key anywhere unless you initiate your wallet recovery yourself.

How on Earth is email address attached to a decentralized wallet? This is crazy and I think we need to be careful because of the same message is sent to novice investors, they could selfishly click on it so they can claimed the BTC that does not exist. As a Bitcoin investors or enthusiastic, we should always ask questions in case we don't understand something that looks fishy to us. I know many people will fall victim to this kind of fishy link just because they are ignorant of the scammer attempts to deceive them and take away their money. There is no email address that is attached to Trust wallet and this should not make us to think like we are expecting a surprise Bitcoin.

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Quote from: cryptoaddictchie on November 02, 2024, 10:11:22 PM

This kind of email I have very special place for this if ever I received some. Automatically in spam or trash bin. Also how the hell it will be deposited on trust which is a non custodial (semi) wallet. Im not sure if trust have notification transaction related to email which means its a 100% scam.

People should not click if its came from an email attempt rewards.

Trust wallet is a non custodial wallet, it's just not open source. It does not require an email address for registration to use the wallet.

Cryptocurrency scam book with note on email phishing scams.
How to Spot and Handle Phishing Emails (official guide from Trust wallet.)

Lastly in my opinion, having transaction notification on email is bad for privacy too.

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Everything about this email tells it is fake. Firstly, trust wallet will never send you an email claiming that you just received some bitcoins. If truly you were sent some bitcoins by an unknown person, it should be reflecting in your wallet and not through an email. Scammers will use this method to lure over excited people into clicking on links and inputting their private details all in the name of verifying the transaction.

Another big red flag in that emage is coinbase image appearing in an email supposedly sent by trust wallet. This scammer must have been in a hurry to scam his victims, reason he didn't work on the email well to at least make it look real Grin

. But the sad truth is, many won't notice this, they will gladly fall for this scam without giving it a second thought.

OP has done well for bringing this scam attempt to our knowledge. Exposing these scammers when we come across them will save lots of people from falling victim.

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This kind of email I have very special place for this if ever I received some. Automatically in spam or trash bin. Also how the hell it will be deposited on trust which is a non custodial (semi) wallet. Im not sure if trust have notification transaction related to email which means its a 100% scam.

People should not click if its came from an email attempt rewards.

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Quote from: Ojima-ojo on October 30, 2024, 03:58:20 PM

Today I received an email that a deposit of 0.3+BTC deposits is being processed on my trust wallet, immediately my brain Skip to think which large transactions I was expecting, but none at that point I suspected a fawl play and became sceptical about the whole thing, and in the email included a link to view the transaction, and when I clicked on it on my secured browser, it took me to a page that demanded for a wallet key's, at that point it becomes clear that it was a phishing attempt.

Everyone be careful of such an email, most especially newbies, be careful of free money and never input your wallet key anywhere unless you initiate your wallet recovery yourself.

Yes I agree with you on that, this is the more reason we keep repeating same issue several times here for people to be awear expecially the newbies. Sometimes an email will pop up telling you about a promotion offer, requesting you login with your personal information or password, and if you eventually do such, your account will be hacked. Those are phishing attacks. they can take you to your online or offline wallet requesting you to input your seed phrase, sometimes your Facebook account or whatsoever sensitive documents and if you eventually click it, all your sensitive information becomes monitored and can be used to hijack fund or steal you social media account. So we need to be very careful to avoid this things by installing anti phishing or malware protection /security on our device to avoid it. Or download a safe browsing software that attack malware or spyware.

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Quote from: Hazink on November 02, 2024, 04:26:45 PM

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Quote from: Perfectbaby on November 02, 2024, 03:02:56 PM

Correct me if I'm wrong for long I've never seen trust wallet asking for email or during wallet creation email address is not included while creating your wallet so how did they get your email to inbox you such message.

Saint-loup already answered this question in his previous reply. Trust wallet doesn’t ask for your email address when creating your wallet. However, it has an option that allows you to back up your wallet with Google Drive. If you choose this option you will see a noification saying that gogle will share your name, email address and even your profile picture with Trust wallet.
But in this case, it’s clear it wasn’t them who sent this phishong email.

Did op accepted that he didn't backup his seed phrase through Google drive?
If no, then we can say it's a site he regularly visit maybe he is mail address has been captured but I wouldn't be surprised it's coming from airdrop because most of tap to earn airdrop mostly request mail address and also signing up their sites.

Even if OP backed up his phrase to Google Drive, that does not still guarantee that the email came from trust wallet themselves, and if the leakage came from the drive, there is also no time that the scammer could have sent the OP the email; instead, they could have extracted the phrase from the driver and made away with whatever's stored in that wallet.

Which only leaves us with the second option: the mail could have been leaked from another third-party website, which the scammers extract mail from, and they can send such content randomly to other users, even non-crypto users, to see who will fall victim to their trap.

If it's a random mail sending none crypto user then it's a waist of energy because such people wouldn't have a seedphrase to import as op made mentioned. Though there could be some uneducated people who are so naive about Bitcoin, because when they received such mail they will think their story has changed. But I as said previously op might have associated his mail to a fake site they back up mails to leash such messages with the aim to achieve a targeted user.

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Quote from: Perfectbaby on November 02, 2024, 03:36:31 PM

Quote from: khaled0111 on November 02, 2024, 03:27:16 PM

Quote from: Perfectbaby on November 02, 2024, 03:02:56 PM

Correct me if I'm wrong for long I've never seen trust wallet asking for email or during wallet creation email address is not included while creating your wallet so how did they get your email to inbox you such message.

Saint-loup already answered this question in his previous reply. Trust wallet doesn’t ask for your email address when creating your wallet. However, it has an option that allows you to back up your wallet with Google Drive. If you choose this option you will see a noification saying that gogle will share your name, email address and even your profile picture with Trust wallet.
But in this case, it’s clear it wasn’t them who sent this phishong email.

Did op accepted that he didn't backup his seed phrase through Google drive?
If no, then we can say it's a site he regularly visit maybe he is mail address has been captured but I wouldn't be surprised it's coming from airdrop because most of tap to earn airdrop mostly request mail address and also signing up their sites.

Even if OP backed up his phrase to Google Drive, that does not still guarantee that the email came from trust wallet themselves, and if the leakage came from the drive, there is also no time that the scammer could have sent the OP the email; instead, they could have extracted the phrase from the driver and made away with whatever's stored in that wallet.

Which only leaves us with the second option: the mail could have been leaked from another third-party website, which the scammers extract mail from, and they can send such content randomly to other users, even non-crypto users, to see who will fall victim to their trap.

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Quote from: khaled0111 on November 02, 2024, 03:27:16 PM

Saint-loup already answered this question in his previous reply. Trust wallet doesn’t ask for your email address when creating your wallet. However, it has an option that allows you to back up your wallet with Google Drive. If you choose this option you will see a noification saying that gogle will share your name, email address and even your profile picture with Trust wallet.
But in this case, it’s clear it wasn’t them who sent this phishong email.

Thank you for detailing and explaining better than me how the process works concretely. For now, we don't know if it's just a randomly and "luckily" sent phishy mail or if it is a targeted one. Leaks from serious organizations happen every day, because of very skilled hackers or because of inside jobs from employees (or former ones). So we can't exclude a leak of his mail address if he did a back-up of his seed into his Google drive account or if he registered to their community forum. I would recommend OP to check his email address with an OSINT service like HIBP https://haveibeenpwned.com

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Quote from: khaled0111 on November 02, 2024, 03:27:16 PM

Quote from: Perfectbaby on November 02, 2024, 03:02:56 PM

Correct me if I'm wrong for long I've never seen trust wallet asking for email or during wallet creation email address is not included while creating your wallet so how did they get your email to inbox you such message.

Saint-loup already answered this question in his previous reply. Trust wallet doesn’t ask for your email address when creating your wallet. However, it has an option that allows you to back up your wallet with Google Drive. If you choose this option you will see a noification saying that gogle will share your name, email address and even your profile picture with Trust wallet.
But in this case, it’s clear it wasn’t them who sent this phishong email.

Did op accepted that he didn't backup his seed phrase through Google drive?
If no, then we can say it's a site he regularly visit maybe he is mail address has been captured but I wouldn't be surprised it's coming from airdrop because most of tap to earn airdrop mostly request mail address and also signing up their sites.

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Quote from: Perfectbaby on November 02, 2024, 03:02:56 PM

Correct me if I'm wrong for long I've never seen trust wallet asking for email or during wallet creation email address is not included while creating your wallet so how did they get your email to inbox you such message.

Saint-loup already answered this question in his previous reply. Trust wallet doesn’t ask for your email address when creating your wallet. However, it has an option that allows you to back up your wallet with Google Drive. If you choose this option you will see a noification saying that gogle will share your name, email address and even your profile picture with Trust wallet.
But in this case, it’s clear it wasn’t them who sent this phishong email.

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Quote from: Ojima-ojo on October 30, 2024, 03:58:20 PM

Everyone be careful of such an email, most especially newbies, be careful of free money and never input your wallet key anywhere unless you initiate your wallet recovery yourself.

Correct me if I'm wrong for long I've never seen trust wallet asking for email or during wallet creation email address is not included while creating your wallet so how did they get your email to inbox you such message. To me I will say that it is scammer that already have your email that created mails that looks like trustwallet to scam those they already had their mail, with this step you would think is from trust wallet and this is another reason why I would never advised anyone to use trust wallet instead electrum wallet can be more preferably.

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Quote from: EL MOHA on October 30, 2024, 04:10:38 PM

One way to easily know that this is a scam phishing attempt already is the fact that a custodial wallet doesn’t have your email address as such it doesn’t gives you email notification for withdrawal or deposit so that should have given you a hint except you got Carried away or that trust wallet does that which I don’t think so, but should they then it is another reason aside many to leave that wallet and go for a better wallet.

I can’t remember Trust Wallet having access to anyone’s email because they claim to be a custodial wallet which means they value your privacy and want to intrigue into that privacy. The message sent to his email was clearly to be a phishing attempt by the scammer because how could they even think that you will have a Trust wallet account and get access to your email. It is very suspicious from this point and newbies should take note of such attempts. If I were him, I won’t even bother to follow the link sent to view my transactions since I know I’m not expecting any huge funds into my account and if ever came in, I can securely view it in my wallet to confirm such deposit. Phishing attempt have been a long time way that scammers steals from their victims and few overtimes now, scammers still try to use that method to scam victims off their coins.

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