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. 
Topic: Trust wallet attempt phishing be careful - page 2. (Read 557 times)
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.
True, but such attacks do not cost hackers much and since there is a 1% chance of success, they will continue with such messages. The solution to phishing messages should be provided by service providers, they should provide better filters and make such messages require more effort.
Most of the time, if the reports on such mail are too much without putting much effort, they are being moved to the spam folder, and if these spammers realise this, it will only cost them a little, which is changing the content of the mail, and it will bypass the automatic blacklist again for some time. The best thing is just for the receiver to avoid opening such mail as long as it obviously appears as a scam looking at the appearance.
They always find ways to make their spamming became more attractive that's why the best thing we could able to do is totally ignore those emails we get. Also once we receive a lot of same like attempts and any unwanted emails came out of nowhere then that means that email we have has already been compromised and been in the target list of those scammers. So much better if we should abandon it already since there's nothing good if we continue to use that and provably we could receive more scam emails like that or worse they can totally penetrate on that emails we have.
Better use fresh emails and make sure that this is away from any potential tracking of those scammers then don't use it to sign up on any random sites to avoid same situation to happen again. Being curious on what we see on our emails is so bad and we should ignore those potential phising and hacking attempts so that we make sure that those criminals cannot get something from us.
Unfortunately you don't give much informations about this phishing mail because you don't disclose the mail address of the sender, neither the url included in the mail where the attacker wanted to take you, and you seem to not even try to visit it in order to tell what was the next step of the scam.
AFAIK Trust Wallet doesn't ask your email address for any feature but it offers to use your google account in order to save your seed there(encrypted ofc). You need to give an email address in order to register to their community forum though https://community.trustwallet.com/
AFAIK Trust Wallet doesn't ask your email address for any feature but it offers to use your google account in order to save your seed there(encrypted ofc). You need to give an email address in order to register to their community forum though https://community.trustwallet.com/
True, but such attacks do not cost hackers much and since there is a 1% chance of success, they will continue with such messages. The solution to phishing messages should be provided by service providers, they should provide better filters and make such messages require more effort.
Most of the time, if the reports on such mail are too much without putting much effort, they are being moved to the spam folder, and if these spammers realise this, it will only cost them a little, which is changing the content of the mail, and it will bypass the automatic blacklist again for some time. The best thing is just for the receiver to avoid opening such mail as long as it obviously appears as a scam looking at the appearance.
Just a question, do we need to use to create a wallet in Trust wallet?
AFAIK, even though it's closed source it still offers recovery seed not done via email so the attempt itself is flawed so anyone with little knowledge can identity with no issues.
But yeah, when we see a message that says such a huge amount deposited we might not think straight in desperation.
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.AFAIK, even though it's closed source it still offers recovery seed not done via email so the attempt itself is flawed so anyone with little knowledge can identity with no issues.
But yeah, when we see a message that says such a huge amount deposited we might not think straight in desperation.
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.
Trust wallet does not require your email to sign up so when you see email from Trust wallet, the first thing that should come to mind is scam. This is actually an odd tricks and have different forms with some promising Trust wallet airdrops and many other things too good to be true. The moment I see any email with free money attached or claim of free money, I don't bother reading it because the caption always say everything so what I do is to delete and block the sender if my email is unable to filter the email as spam.
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.
Emails like this are always from scammers, and they do make it look like you are receiving a free bitcoin. Since the amount is kind of large, most people will rush to view it. Most people are always looking for free money, and they don’t know that scammers are always targeting most of the people that are always after free money. I'm sure people like that are the once’s that will easily fall for this. Immediately they requested for keys, you should know they are scammers. Seriously, things like this are where newbies always get scammed. Why do you have to input your key before you will be able to view the transaction? If you are in the crypto space, you are supposed to know that there is nothing like free money. If you are after free money, then don’t be surprised that you will end up being scammed at the end. Always make sure you are careful with the links you click, and don’t input your sensitive information on anyhow website.
I actually commend on the Op for not being lured with that fake offer and as someone who knows a lot about wallets especially Trust wallet will no that the message he got from the email is from scammers because from the first place during creating of Trust wallet account there no option like email sign up or add because the only thing is either the private key or the secret phrase, so I wonder how dumb the scammers think the person is to fall for their trick.
They really did put their time and effort into scamming people that even their creation is kinda dumb. Well in my opinion, it's better that scammers who sent that email created a dumb scheme so that people who are not greedy won't fall for this kind of trick and not many people will fall for this. This is the first time I know about scammers emailing someone else's pretending to be from trustwallet as it is always different wallet or a different platform. The image posted by OP means that scammers tend to find different ways to fool people. 
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.
Again, the topic is Trust Wallet. For some reason, my level of trust in the wallet is decreasing even though fraud attempts like this are nothing new for some people who have assets and store them in wallets.
What is the relationship between the wallet and the user's personal email? Is it possible that Trust Wallet requires its users to click on a link that aims to process the transaction amount.
It is true that fraud attempts must be known before deciding to click on the link provided because the perpetrators have many ways to trick users.
If you installed trustwallet on your mobile device then you would have seen that you really did receive some btc. I never received an email from trustwallet whatsoever so I thought right away that it is a phishing attempt or to steal your crypto if you follow the instructions said on the email. One more thing, trustwallet app doesn't have a feature where you add your email tk received news or notification so that's clearly an attempt to steal your seed phrase.
I actually commend on the Op for not being lured with that fake offer and as someone who knows a lot about wallets especially Trust wallet will no that the message he got from the email is from scammers because from the first place during creating of Trust wallet account there no option like email sign up or add because the only thing is either the private key or the secret phrase, so I wonder how dumb the scammers think the person is to fall for their trick. Imagine if OP does not no anything about phishing he would have just given them access to his Trust wallet account thinking that he is receiving a free Bitcoin, however I even wonder how they got his mail and also how they managed to no that he has some funds on his Trust wallet, actually since those scammers knows that a lot of people are using Trust wallet it has always been their targets to look for other means since they cannot decode any private key or phrase, if Trust wallet had enable the use of email so many people would have become a victim because with how easy those scammers are getting the emails of people that's how it would have been easy to get people's account.
Just a question, do we need to use to create a wallet in Trust wallet?
AFAIK, even though it's closed source it still offers recovery seed not done via email so the attempt itself is flawed so anyone with little knowledge can identity with no issues.
But yeah, when we see a message that says such a huge amount deposited we might not think straight in desperation.
AFAIK, even though it's closed source it still offers recovery seed not done via email so the attempt itself is flawed so anyone with little knowledge can identity with no issues.
But yeah, when we see a message that says such a huge amount deposited we might not think straight in desperation.
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.
Don't want to judge you or dishearten you but I am going to use your example of how effective phishing is I mean you are pro person in crypto knows you can't just receive 0.3 BTC (Maybe they become $20k) without any reason as you are not participating in any bonus, or trading competition or any airdrop with that wallet so you can't just receive that much money with no reason and in order to see if you receive the funds then you must have the wallet addresses kept separate and look into explorer like if you really received any.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.
If it is processed on explorer then real otherwise opening the mail and clicking on the link is the big mistake you even did like what if the mail was so contagious that it put some kind of virus in your device nothing much but a simple clipboard virus is enough to make things hard for you in future.
So that's how phishing scams like this can make a pro crypto person react unsafe ways think of what newbies be going through.
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.
when we have never done any work or transaction with someone and suddenly there is a large transaction coming in via email notification, of course, we have to be vigilant. not only beginners, but those who are quite familiar with wallets and crypto must also be vigilant, this is because the temptation of large transactions can make our minds unclear.I have experienced this, but not from a trust wallet, but from an exchange platform. after that, I never used the email again for any purpose. this must be watched out for especially for those who like to register for airdrop campaigns. lots of spam emails will come in.
That means your email has been leaked so that the scammers already know and your email becomes a target for fraud... Even I myself have experienced this kind of thing but somehow they know my email, maybe because it was leaked from another platform so that the data was traded?
With an email where the content of the message you received a large amount of BTC it doesn't make sense... Moreover, I have never made a transaction of this size before... and from an airdrop it is impossible to get a gift like this... Therefore this is a classic scam that we often encounter.
With an email where the content of the message you received a large amount of BTC it doesn't make sense... Moreover, I have never made a transaction of this size before... and from an airdrop it is impossible to get a gift like this... Therefore this is a classic scam that we often encounter.
This is just one of the few scam attacks on the trust wallet app we should be careful. There are scams that they do by exchanging your wallet address when you want to send a coin to another address. If you delay in doing it the receiving address will be exchanged to another address and if you don't check the transaction for the second time before sending it you will end up sending it to the scammers address. Now, one way they do this is if you try swapping coins using fake pancakes was phishing website instead of the official pancakeswap website.
Trust wallet should increase security in these areas, especially their Dapps because that is the fastest way they use to scam their customers. Should they remove the Dapp function form the app? I dont think so, but they should filter phising scams from their dapp.
Trust wallet should increase security in these areas, especially their Dapps because that is the fastest way they use to scam their customers. Should they remove the Dapp function form the app? I dont think so, but they should filter phising scams from their dapp.
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