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.
Topic: Trust wallet attempt phishing be careful - page 2. (Read 791 times)
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.
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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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.
[TUTORIAL] Getting a low-fee transaction unstuck by creating a CPFP with electrum
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.
[TUTORIAL] Getting a low-fee transaction unstuck by creating a CPFP with electrum
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.
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.
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.
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.People should not click if its came from an email attempt rewards.
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.
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
. 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.
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
. 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.
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.
People should not click if its came from an email attempt rewards.
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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 But in this case, it’s clear it wasn’t them who sent this phishong email.
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.
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.
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.
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. 
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.
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.
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.
Let's put the whole phishing and scamming aside, how is it even possible for someone to get an email from trust wallet about a processed transaction?. I've used trust wallet in the past, but there was no such thing as email, or is there now a feature that allows users to connect their wallet to their email?. Quite strange if you ask me, because if actually users can connect their wallet to their email, then it is a bad features IMO. It's not even a cex, so I'm not sure it's ideal to do that.
And, it's good that you shared this information for those that probably uses trust wallet. 0.3Btc looks very tempting especially for newbies that might be looking for free money, or someone that might even be curious to really confirm if actually the tx was valid, and ends up submitting keys.
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.
Thank you for sharing this to the public, it will be a guide for newbies especially the new comers to cryptocurrency that recently joined because of telegram tap to earn games; they can receive and reveal anything just for money because most of them don’t have good knowledge about cryptocurrency, they just joined because they are expecting most of these projects to pay them some money, therefore if any of them have received this mail, they will input anything requested because of the money that is involved.Newbies be wise, no one have free money to give you in crypto space.
We can smell a Phishing email just by the subject. It is too obvious. This is for those that have been long enough into using the internet especially web applications and all and now cryptocurrency. It's stupid for anyone to think that people will fall for it but sadly they are not that stupid because a lot of people still fall for this. There victims though are folks with low knowledge of cyber security. As long as you use the internet you need to read books and articles on how to protect yourself and be safe online.
The whole thing look suspicious from the beginning and for that I was very careful about this email because there was not at anytime when that I did include my email on trust wallet, and also how can Coinbase logo be included in a trust wallet email, all this spark my curiosity and I was sure that this email was a scam.
I just made this thread to warn newbies about the potential attempt by scammer's to deceive them into imputing theirs wallet keys on the page included on the link, in other to steal their log in details.
I just made this thread to warn newbies about the potential attempt by scammer's to deceive them into imputing theirs wallet keys on the page included on the link, in other to steal their log in details.
I am also surprised that you got an email whereas I have never seen anywhere in the wallet where they require email or other personal information. Maybe they got the information from other sources or it's just a random phishing email. The email looks like a scam to you but some newbies might not be able to dictate it and they might end up becoming victims. You did the right thing OP because one needs to consistently be reminded of the activities of these criminals since they will keep seeking new means to steal from people.
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