Do you own a Ledger? Because chances are, that's where your email got leaked lol. Also — use custom email address aliases bros, makes preventing phishing/spam emails a lot easier.
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Topic: Trust wallet KYC verification Phishing mail. Beware! - page 2. (Read 262 times)
If Trust wallet requires KYC on users, they will pin that super important announcement at their X account. https://twitter.com/TrustWallet
There is no announcement like that on Trust wallet's X account.
Trust wallet is non-custodial but it is close source and it was acquire by Binance years ago. If you are a fan of non-custodial wallets but must be open-source, you will look for other wallets with open-source.
This scam attempt was reported at Trust wallet community https://community.trustwallet.com/t/probable-scam-relating-to-kyc/832975
Because you received that scam email, check your email address with https://haveibeenpwned.com/
There is no announcement like that on Trust wallet's X account.
Trust wallet is non-custodial but it is close source and it was acquire by Binance years ago. If you are a fan of non-custodial wallets but must be open-source, you will look for other wallets with open-source.
This scam attempt was reported at Trust wallet community https://community.trustwallet.com/t/probable-scam-relating-to-kyc/832975
Because you received that scam email, check your email address with https://haveibeenpwned.com/
Thanks for bringing this to public notice. There's been a data breach, and your email must have been stolen from one of the platforms you signed up. I must say that it's a poorly hatched phishing attempt because non custodial wallet will never ask you to submit your personal information for verification, this is only possible on custodial wallets. Also, you don't need an email address when creating a trust wallet or any other non custodial wallets. It's clearly a scam and newbies should be warned.
That's a trap they will ask for a KYC verification and seed phrase and actually you can just move to other wallets with your seed phrase without KYC.
Deleting emails is not a good idea you will still receive emails from them if you just deleted them.
If I were you block who emails you and report it as spam to make sure you won't receive any suspicious email again from that email.
Deleting emails is not a good idea you will still receive emails from them if you just deleted them.
If I were you block who emails you and report it as spam to make sure you won't receive any suspicious email again from that email.
I always get any fake email from scammer with lots of tricks to try scam.
This is my small tips to check phising email.
- Check email address sender first (most scammer use free emails)
- If you don't know official email from any project, you can check in their social media and website.
This is my small tips to check phising email.
- Check email address sender first (most scammer use free emails)
- If you don't know official email from any project, you can check in their social media and website.
Thanks for sharing this information as some of us might want to rush and verify their KYC with the intention that by so doing that the security of their wallets will be more assured and guaranteed not knowing that they may be exposing the wallets to some kind of random access by some hackers and scam sites and if information like this doesn't come to us on time it might lead to lots of people being scammed before it will be noticed that's the more reason why any information concerning the security of one's wallets shouldn't be taken for granted as negligence can sometimes lead to untold consequences. The security of your wallets should be taken of utmost priority so it is important we run security checks on our wallets from time to time.
Even now we don’t know who and who might have fallen into this phishing attempt attack by the hackers but this is a warning at the right time. Going forward one of the keys way to avoid attacks like this is to verify by checking there social media (which can also be compromised) or login to your account if it is true you might see it there
Now to a realistic thing no Non custodial wallet will ask for KYC because even if they do they can’t confiscate your holdings without the seed phrase or keys, but for case like TrustWallet which is closed source you wouldn’t know how the keys are even be generated or what they do with them. So ditch closed wallets and move over to open source wallets
Thanks for sharing this information as some of us might want to rush and verify their KYC with the intention that by so doing that the security of their wallets will be more assured and guaranteed not knowing that they may be exposing the wallets to some kind of random access by some hackers and scam sites and if information like this doesn't come to us on time it might lead to lots of people being scammed before it will be noticed that's the more reason why any information concerning the security of one's wallets shouldn't be taken for granted as negligence can sometimes lead to untold consequences. The security of your wallets should be taken of utmost priority so it is important we run security checks on our wallets from time to time.
I have been receiving couple of mail daily to verify KYC for trust wallet. Though occasionally I have been using trust wallet but not as an main wallet. This is absolutely hacking attack. They provide some links even I haven't bothered to click. I just deleted message instantly. Non-custodial wallet won't ask you verify KYC anyway. There are no options to input your mail during creating trust wallet. So no question to receiving KYC verification mail from Trust wallet. It might a result of data breach from various crypto sites. So don't click any links if you receive smialr mail.
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