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legendary
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November 01, 2024, 10:10:32 AM
#33
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.
 
legendary
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October 31, 2024, 05:57:15 PM
#32
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/
sr. member
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October 31, 2024, 05:26:53 PM
#31
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.
hero member
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October 31, 2024, 04:58:39 PM
#30
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.


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.
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October 31, 2024, 04:43:22 PM
#29
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.
hero member
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October 31, 2024, 03:37:37 PM
#28
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.
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October 31, 2024, 03:23:42 PM
#27
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.
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October 31, 2024, 02:56:56 PM
#26
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.
hero member
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October 31, 2024, 01:49:42 PM
#25
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.
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October 31, 2024, 01:43:34 PM
#24
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.
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October 31, 2024, 01:33:12 PM
#23
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.


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.
hero member
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October 31, 2024, 10:07:58 AM
#22
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.
sr. member
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October 31, 2024, 09:49:45 AM
#21
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.
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October 31, 2024, 09:17:23 AM
#20
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.
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October 31, 2024, 06:17:49 AM
#19
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.

Can't count how many times I receive an email like this but didn't get bothered to check it.

Because I know I didn't do anything to receive something from them and people also need to realize or at least be doubtful especially if they receive to good to be true in their sight.

Those hackers or scammers just want to take the greed of people and caught them. That's why its really best for people not to use their main email upon exploring on any sites on crypto and use dummy mails to avoid any problems related on unwanted situation that they can't afford to happen.
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October 31, 2024, 03:42:18 AM
#18
Wallets don't really require email address at all, so with that, upon receiving such emails they're already suspicious. Also, based on that picture shared by OP, there's also a coinbase image that make things more complicated. Other than that, don't be too greedy and no one is ever going to click these emails that tells we've received such tremendous BTCs.

Note: this attempt also happens in other popular wallets that these scammers use aside from Trust Wallet.
hero member
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October 31, 2024, 03:35:06 AM
#17
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.
They change from Youtube scams to email and wallet phishing scams but basically they target greed, naive and careless people.

Collection of comprehensive guides on identify and avoid scam projects. You can see years ago, they tried to scam with 1, 2 ETH giveaway on Youtube and convinced greed people to make 1 ETH sending first, to claim 2 ETH later.

This Trust wallet phishing scam is similarly.

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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.
I don't know how scammers knew your email to send the phishing scam but you can check your email, whether it was pwned.
https://haveibeenpwned.com/
legendary
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October 31, 2024, 03:07:29 AM
#16
Am surprised that even after Trust wallet celebrated an anniversary to mark its 7years in business, it still hasn't ensured that hackers do not use their site to phish wallet addresses that belong to consistent and even inconsistent users of the wallet.
Am sure that with more warnings and exposure of phishing attacks like this, the newbies and oldies would remember to be security conscious and take precautions when handling their wallets mostly for those wallets that have funds in them or are used to receive funds for transactions that has been concluded.
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.
sr. member
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October 31, 2024, 02:59:02 AM
#15
It is good to had brought this up here atleast even if some of us here claim it is an obvious scam scheme, there would had been a lot especially beginners or ignorant users who might have fallen into it victim.

Originally, that was malicious information sent to you OP because it is not convinceable of how Trust Wallet got your email contact address knowing that you did not include such when creating your wallet account in regards that the wallet is a  highily decentralized platform.

You can also ask yourself if you did made demands that you wanted to trade the coin as they may have portrayed "guiding you on 3 steps in trading the coin".
legendary
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October 31, 2024, 02:39:58 AM
#14
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.
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I wonder what would happen if you inserted a full 12-word seed phrase, but there's nothing in it. Like you just created that wallet just for the sake of that phishing attempt.

Anyway, these kinds of threads really are a big help towards the newbies out there. I always say that reminders like these helps those newbies out there that doesn't have any experience on phishing scams, and with these, they will already know what to do just in case it happens to them. There's a famous quote that states "If it's too good to be true, then it isn't true at all." Always remember that don't get attracted with those huge amounts of money that's being flashed on your screen. Always be vigilant, always think realistically and if you know that you didn't make a transaction with that kind of amount, ignore it at all costs.

No one will ask for a private key unless you will try to transfer your wallet into another device. Always, always research, and to prevent falling from these phishing links, bookmark their official websites.
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