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Quote from: Gladitorcomeback on November 11, 2024, 04:40:25 AM

Using official sources is one of the basic safety measures; however, people also need to ensure they don't store a lot of funds in web wallets or online wallets because they are usually vulnerable to risks, especially the ones that don't give you access to your keys. You might have a seed phrase, but having your keys means you own your coins, which are in your custody and not with a third party. Newbies often use such wallets to store all their assets, which is a mistake.

Some people also use exchanges to keep all their assets, which is another mistake because exchanges are also vulnerable to attacks and exploits, and one might lose their money if their account gets compromised because exchanges might only compensate you if the exchange gets hacked, but if individual accounts are compromised, you will barely get anything back.

So it's better to use non-custodial wallets to keep your funds and make sure you store your keys and phrases somewhere very safe.

For safety use official websites and apps that is most important. But do not keep a lot of money in online wallets. They are not secure. Online wallets can be hacked and you might lose money. This is especially true if you do not have control over your account. Many people new to cryptocurrency make mistake they store all their money in online wallets or exchanges. This is risky. If exchange or online wallet is hacked you might not get your money back. To stay safe use wallets that only you control and keep your secret codes and keys secure and also store them in safe place. Keeping your cryptocurrency safe requires attention and responsible management.

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Quote from: Cryptmuster on November 10, 2024, 05:14:25 AM

They’ve become big enough to attract the attention of scammers who want to come up with new scams, so you should only use official, trusted sources when it comes to your funds, and carefully check where you go, or where a link redirects you.

Using official sources is one of the basic safety measures; however, people also need to ensure they don't store a lot of funds in web wallets or online wallets because they are usually vulnerable to risks, especially the ones that don't give you access to your keys. You might have a seed phrase, but having your keys means you own your coins, which are in your custody and not with a third party. Newbies often use such wallets to store all their assets, which is a mistake.

Some people also use exchanges to keep all their assets, which is another mistake because exchanges are also vulnerable to attacks and exploits, and one might lose their money if their account gets compromised because exchanges might only compensate you if the exchange gets hacked, but if individual accounts are compromised, you will barely get anything back.

So it's better to use non-custodial wallets to keep your funds and make sure you store your keys and phrases somewhere very safe.

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Quote from: DPHOR on November 08, 2024, 07:30:19 PM

Everyone should know this is a scam message and shouldn't rush to make any attempt to this mail because if you look at the mail you would see that is fake and scam mail, just to let people fall into trapped. But come to think of this how did your mail connection from coinbase to trustwallet related? Or do you by any means links your mail from coinbase to trustwallet if i may know?
Because judging on how things works, there is no way trustwallet would have to send you mail even if they do they don't have your mail so this is likely a suspicious mail per say.

His mail may have leaked on the net, one way the malicious team scraped the mail address. The mail template is appealing, including the money. Greedy people will be at a disadvantage.

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Quote from: Franctoshi on November 09, 2024, 07:36:52 AM

I have received this kind of email before, but I used to delete them ASAP, because I know is a trap, and the very tricky one that I received lately, was sent directly to my phone number, with a link saying that a withdrawal has been made on my account with a particular exchange which I use, and if I didn't make such withdrawal, I should click and follow the link to stop the transaction, and funny enough this particular platform I don't have funds in their and hasn't been using it for a while.

Now I was imagining someone that has funds and aren't aware of such scamming tricks, will immediately want to use the link, and that's where people gets screwed.

You are absolutely right to be careful. Those emails and texts are attempts to trick you. They want you to share private information or download harmful software. Message you got saying money was taken from your account is common trick. Scammers try to make you worried and click link quickly without thinking. But you knew better and deleted message. That is smart decision. It is very important to warn others about these scams especially those who do not know about them. You can help keep others safe by spreading word. Like OP has already done.

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Quote from: Wiwo on November 09, 2024, 04:39:19 PM

At no time will trust wallet contact a customer about a deposit notification like the one in the screenshot shared by the ops, this email is a clear phising emails and should be discarded, but still it good that the ops shared this here at least this will help other newbie who may not be so much knowledgeable about trustwallet and how their operates.

Clicking any attached link is also a higher risk again because any link will be a mirror to look into some personal details of the victims, so be careful with such links

Trust Wallet recently mentioned in X, a scam website that looks exactly like theirs:

🚨 Scam Alert 🚨
We’ve spotted a fake website impersonating Trust Wallet. On mobile, it copies our site; on desktop, it sneaks you to a photography page.

Don’t fall for it! Always double-check URLs and only download Trust Wallet from official sources.
https://x.com/TrustWallet/status/1854969833286517225

They’ve become big enough to attract the attention of scammers who want to come up with new scams, so you should only use official, trusted sources when it comes to your funds, and carefully check where you go, or where a link redirects you.

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Quote from: tranthidung on November 08, 2024, 10:43:43 PM

Quote from: Rockstarguy on November 05, 2024, 03:49:18 PM

Trust wallet will never send any email to you because it is a non custodial wallet which email is not needed to create a wallet.

It is not always like you said. It is only true if you don't contact Trust wallet support via support ticket, and you received email claims to be from Trust wallet team, it is very likely phishing scam attack.

How to spot and handling phishing emails.

You can read their full guides, but here is the short quote at the top of their guideline.

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The principle is straightforward: if you receive an unsolicited email, especially when you haven't contacted support and the email isn't a response from our ticketing system, then it's likely a scam. Should you need help, our support can be reached at support.trustwallet.com

At no time will trust wallet contact a customer about a deposit notification like the one in the screenshot shared by the ops, this email is a clear phising emails and should be discarded, but still it good that the ops shared this here at least this will help other newbie who may not be so much knowledgeable about trustwallet and how their operates.

Clicking any attached link is also a higher risk again because any link will be a mirror to look into some personal details of the victims, so be careful with such links

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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.

I have received this kind of email before, but I used to delete them ASAP, because I know is a trap, and the very tricky one that I received lately, was sent directly to my phone number, with a link saying that a withdrawal has been made on my account with a particular exchange which I use, and if I didn't make such withdrawal, I should click and follow the link to stop the transaction, and funny enough this particular platform I don't have funds in their and hasn't been using it for a while.

Now I was imagining someone that has funds and aren't aware of such scamming tricks, will immediately want to use the link, and that's where people gets screwed.

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Quote from: DPHOR on November 08, 2024, 07:30:19 PM

Everyone should know this is a scam message and shouldn't rush to make any attempt to this mail because if you look at the mail you would see that is fake and scam mail, just to let people fall into trapped.

It is a trap and usually with this email that I receive, I have no second thoughts putting them into trash.

Quote from: DPHOR on November 08, 2024, 07:30:19 PM

But come to think of this how did your mail connection from coinbase to trustwallet related? Or do you by any means links your mail from coinbase to trustwallet if i may know?
Because judging on how things works, there is no way trustwallet would have to send you mail even if they do they don't have your mail so this is likely a suspicious mail per say.

Tran did explained that if you sent them a ticket and you have attached your mail, that's how they're going to respond as well. But if you haven't done anything or in anyway you never contacted them and you have received an email from trustwallet, that's already dubious.

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Quote from: Rockstarguy on November 05, 2024, 03:49:18 PM

Trust wallet will never send any email to you because it is a non custodial wallet which email is not needed to create a wallet.

It is not always like you said. It is only true if you don't contact Trust wallet support via support ticket, and you received email claims to be from Trust wallet team, it is very likely phishing scam attack.

How to spot and handling phishing emails.

You can read their full guides, but here is the short quote at the top of their guideline.

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The principle is straightforward: if you receive an unsolicited email, especially when you haven't contacted support and the email isn't a response from our ticketing system, then it's likely a scam. Should you need help, our support can be reached at support.trustwallet.com

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Quote from: Rockstarguy on November 05, 2024, 03:49:18 PM

Quote from: Alpha Marine on October 30, 2024, 04:33:06 PM

First of all, you should know that Trust Wallet doesn't have your email. You created your wallet without any emails or passwords so how come they're sending you an email? Every update and notification they want to send gets sent in the app.
I think you shouldn't have even bordered to click the link because it might be a malicious link that might pass virus onto your device.
When you receive emails like that, after reading and confirming that it's a scam, just block the sender and report it as a scam so the email gets blocked.

Trust wallet will never send any email to you because it is a non custodial wallet which email is not needed to create a wallet. OP should have known that was a scam message sent to his email. I think people really needs to be careful with how they click to strange messages. Login in to the wallet to see if there is any deposit of money is even the best, just to avoid the tricks of these scammers. Bitcoin investors should understand the essence of non custodial wallet, this is something no one can have access to if only private keys are kept properly, so their is no need to get worried when a strange email is sent to email.

Yes you are right when using wallets like Trust Wallet we should remember that they do not ask for personal info or send unexpected emails. If we are getting suspicious message it is probably scam trying to trick so be careful. Never click on links or share sensitive info. Always check your wallet directly to confirm transactions. These wallets are secure because only you have control with your private keys as long as you keep them safe. If we want to protect your money so we should make sure to verify info through official websites and keep our keys and phrases secure. This way we will stay safe and secure and our investments will be protected.

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Everyone should know this is a scam message and shouldn't rush to make any attempt to this mail because if you look at the mail you would see that is fake and scam mail, just to let people fall into trapped. But come to think of this how did your mail connection from coinbase to trustwallet related? Or do you by any means links your mail from coinbase to trustwallet if i may know?
Because judging on how things works, there is no way trustwallet would have to send you mail even if they do they don't have your mail so this is likely a suspicious mail per say.

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Quote from: Rockstarguy on November 05, 2024, 03:49:18 PM

Quote from: Alpha Marine on October 30, 2024, 04:33:06 PM

First of all, you should know that Trust Wallet doesn't have your email. You created your wallet without any emails or passwords so how come they're sending you an email? Every update and notification they want to send gets sent in the app.
I think you shouldn't have even bordered to click the link because it might be a malicious link that might pass virus onto your device.
When you receive emails like that, after reading and confirming that it's a scam, just block the sender and report it as a scam so the email gets blocked.

Trust wallet will never send any email to you because it is a non custodial wallet which email is not needed to create a wallet. OP should have known that was a scam message sent to his email. I think people really needs to be careful with how they click to strange messages. Login in to the wallet to see if there is any deposit of money is even the best, just to avoid the tricks of these scammers. Bitcoin investors should understand the essence of non custodial wallet, this is something no one can have access to if only private keys are kept properly, so their is no need to get worried when a strange email is sent to email.

I was aware of the risk installs in that email right from the moment I received the email, and for sure I applied all the caution that I could in other to avoid every possible way that the hacker's could gain access to me, and also to keep others informed and warned about such similar e-mail that the reason for creating this thread to warn others from possibility of such attempts.

Trust wallet have nothing directly to do with this email since their never hard my email in the first place, this kind of cheap scamming tactic, doesn't work for someone like myself.

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Quote from: Alpha Marine on October 30, 2024, 04:33:06 PM

First of all, you should know that Trust Wallet doesn't have your email. You created your wallet without any emails or passwords so how come they're sending you an email? Every update and notification they want to send gets sent in the app.
I think you shouldn't have even bordered to click the link because it might be a malicious link that might pass virus onto your device.
When you receive emails like that, after reading and confirming that it's a scam, just block the sender and report it as a scam so the email gets blocked.

Trust wallet will never send any email to you because it is a non custodial wallet which email is not needed to create a wallet. OP should have known that was a scam message sent to his email. I think people really needs to be careful with how they click to strange messages. Login in to the wallet to see if there is any deposit of money is even the best, just to avoid the tricks of these scammers. Bitcoin investors should understand the essence of non custodial wallet, this is something no one can have access to if only private keys are kept properly, so their is no need to get worried when a strange email is sent to email.

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Quote from: Ojima-ojo on November 05, 2024, 01:35:19 AM

Quote from: Mayor of ogba on November 04, 2024, 09:30:56 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.

I already did that before I posted my comment to your post. I'm not in any way against you for bringing this to our notice because it is a useful post, and it will mostly help newbies who are not aware of this type of scam to stay vigilant and guide themselves anytime they receive such a message in their email, but I was just surprised that someone like you who is exposed and knows how scammers are sending random messages to people's emails click the phishing link on that email when you know too well you didn't initiate any transaction on your Trust Wallet. If you read my comment again, you understand that I didn't say you accepted the 0.39083869 BTC that was in the email you received; I only said you were carried away by the 0.39083869 BTC in that email, and that was the reason why you clicked the phishing link to know if it is real or not.

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Quote from: Cryptmuster on November 05, 2024, 05:12:40 AM

Trust wallet even warned on their Twitter that they do not do any mailings by email, official announcements are possible only in their application (wallet), or in their social networks, and any mailings by email should be immediately perceived as a scam.

If it's their official announcement for upgrade or anything important, they will announce it officially on many channels they have. Like their website, blog, email notification, social media.

It's not good if you only rely on one channel like email notification or one social media channel, and react immediately for upgrade. Checking different channels like mentioning: website, email, different social media channels, all official ones, to confirm that it is official announcement for upgrade. If in checking around channels, you see different information, upgrade and no upgrade announcement, you have to be careful.

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Trust wallet even warned on their Twitter that they do not do any mailings by email, official announcements are possible only in their application (wallet), or in their social networks, and any mailings by email should be immediately perceived as a scam.

I would not even risk following the link as you did, because for some fraudulent schemes it is enough to just follow the link to give permission to access your PC. Perhaps these are some rare cases, but if such a possibility exists, then it is better not to risk it.

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Quote from: Mayor of ogba on November 04, 2024, 09:30:56 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, 04:32:41 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, 10:41:22 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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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, 03:32:56 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, 03:57:16 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: Perfectbaby on November 02, 2024, 03:32:56 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, 03:32:56 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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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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Quote from: Ojima-ojo on October 31, 2024, 04:58:39 PM

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 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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Quote from: Orpichukwu on October 31, 2024, 05:26:53 PM

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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.

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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/

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Quote from: hugeblack on October 31, 2024, 03:07:29 AM

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.

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Quote from: Findingnemo on October 31, 2024, 01:43:34 PM

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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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.

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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.

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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Quote from: Salahmu on October 31, 2024, 01:49:42 PM

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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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.

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.

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Quote from: nakamura12 on October 30, 2024, 04:55:22 PM

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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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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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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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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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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.

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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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.

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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.

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/

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Quote from: Cryptomultiplier on October 31, 2024, 02:31:32 AM

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.

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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".

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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.
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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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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.

I have not experienced such yet, but the little experience I had with trust wallet when I couldn't recover my lost wallet on a new device, made me part ways with the wallet company and even if I still at most adhere to these security tips and recognize phishing attacks, it isn't still sufficient and all these wallet companies should do well to upgrade their systems to ensure that such attacks reduce and not become a major concern for the cryptocurrency world.

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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

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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Quote from: robelneo on October 30, 2024, 06:50:52 PM

There's a possibility that your email was leaked so you're receiving this kind of spam, this is not targeted for you alone, its more likely a bulk email sent to try to scam people who do not know that Trustwallet do not ask for your email.
The basic rule always applies: if a link asks for your private key, it's a 100% scam. This has been an ongoing warning to everyone not to entertain emails that ask for private keys.

Yes you are right OP should be careful because his email might have been hacked which is why he is getting spam. These scams are usually sent to many people trying to trick those who do not know better about how Trustwallet works. Platform never asks for email verification so beware of fake emails. Important rule to remember is that any link asking for your private key is definitely scam. It is crucial to stay alert and ignore suspicious emails to avoid getting caught by these scams which experts have warned about many times.

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There's a possibility that your email was leaked so you're receiving this kind of spam, this is not targeted for you alone, its more likely a bulk email sent to try to scam people who do not know that Trustwallet do not ask for your email.
The basic rule always applies: if a link asks for your private key, it's a 100% scam. This has been an ongoing warning to everyone not to entertain emails that ask for private keys.

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We should find such emails usually all the time, especially as Bitcoin's value trends upward; these emails often appear in the inbox rather than spam, making them even more dangerous. These messages play on the temptation to lure recipients into clicking the phishing link. However, I believe that even if you open them in a secure browser, it’s safer to ignore any links altogether. You never know what deceptive method they might use, which could pose a risk to the device you used to open the link.

It is worth noting that TrustWallet has indicated in their article [this] about these phishing messages, and they have a clear principle that whoever receives unsolicited messages without previously contacting support ^{[support.trustwallet.com]}, and it’s not from their ticketing system or if the person receives messages about deposits in his wallet, it's a red flag. Because all transactions on the Trust wallet operate on the blockchain and don’t require users' email for transaction notifications. Knowing this can make it nearly impossible for a user to fall for such easy scams.

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I will add in a reminder for all those airdrops and bounties hunters, who think they could easily get something out of a thin air for them to hold on, trust wallet has been the center for performing scams of this kind and they were aware that most of the users will have trust wallet to use in claiming for their airdrops or reward, after which almost everything will eventually turned a dust, or one being scammed.

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Only a greedy or naïve individual will fall for this scam, which will still be a few among them since this is among the most obvious scam of our current age now, they're more sophisticated phishing scam but most times if we're cautious and well informed, we can often times avoid them not be victimize.

Quote from: Cantsay on October 30, 2024, 04:17:22 PM

Unless the whole TrustWallet system has changed (since it’s been a long time I last created an account there) receiving any sort of mail from them ranging from software updates to free giveaways should instantly be a red flag to you - don’t bother to explore it more.

They have their own official website except you register at the site, I doubt they will have any need of users email aside this, though these account mail are not directly link to their wallet address.

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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.

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Just look at that there statement 3 confirmation needed before you will be able to trade the coin; those are just phrases the scanners copy from mail sent by exchanges each time they make a deposit.

Some people, after seeing such an amount, get tempted to rush and follow whatever step they are asked to, forgetting that they never used email to create a wallet in the first place. Ignorance and greed make lots of people victims of scams.

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First of all, you should know that Trust Wallet doesn't have your email. You created your wallet without any emails or passwords so how come they're sending you an email? Every update and notification they want to send gets sent in the app.
I think you shouldn't have even bordered to click the link because it might be a malicious link that might pass virus onto your device.
When you receive emails like that, after reading and confirming that it's a scam, just block the sender and report it as a scam so the email gets blocked.

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This is not new, and I keep asking the same question - “how did they get your email address?” Remember, when you create a trust wallet account you don’t input your email there so receiving an email from TrustWallet should already tell you that this is a phishing email and you don’t even have to click on it.

Unless the whole TrustWallet system has changed (since it’s been a long time I last created an account there) receiving any sort of mail from them ranging from software updates to free giveaways should instantly be a red flag to you - don’t bother to explore it more.

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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.

Also it is a bad culture to actually click on links you’re curious about, the best thing to do at this kind of situations is to go straight to the wallet and check if there is an incoming transaction some wallets do show it, or simply use the address and check on bitcoin explorer.

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

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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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