[Warning]: Impersonation and spoofing of crypto related companies on Twitter - page 2.

tech30338

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Quote from: Dave1 on November 16, 2023, 03:48:15 AM

There were reports of another scam attack thru impersonation, but this time it's different, they uses blockchain analytics or crypto fraud investigation firms and researchers, like CertiK, ZachXBT, and Scam Sniffer to fabricate that there was such breaches on Uniswap and OpenSea.

So to impersonate, this cyber criminals a Twitter name that resembles the legit ones. For example,

ZachXBT has the account @zachxbt, while the criminals created and tweeted from @zacheryxbt.

And after you click, you will be redirected to two websites:

Code:

http://revoketokens.io/

Code:

http://revokea.sh/

Good that this website has been taken down and offline, but the criminals was able to run off initially with $50,000. And I felt sorry for those victims. So in any case that this kind of attacks resurfaces again, just be cautious though and check everything first before you go and click any link.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fraudsters-make-50-000-a-day-by-spoofing-crypto-researchers/

why do we still fall for these kinds of schemes, this thing has happened before and is not new in the internet space, before email spoofing where they send a message saying they have to pay a certain SI or sales invoice, and since the email name looks legit they process the transaction, without looking at the email header
See the example:

The green and the red should be the same if they are not the same you should not process anything or don't even click a link
so we are better aware of this, clearly, they have evolved how they are going to trick people, so we better also evolve for our protection by being vigilant and careful, double check everything or checking it multiple times like how we transfer funds, before processing or clicking something to avoid this kind of thing from happening.

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Quote from: Lida93 on November 16, 2023, 04:07:32 AM

Quote from: Dave1 on November 16, 2023, 03:48:15 AM

Good that this website has been taken down and offline, but the criminals was able to run off initially with $50,000. And I felt sorry for those victims. So in any case that this kind of attacks resurfaces again, just be cautious though and check everything first before you go and click any link.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fraudsters-make-50-000-a-day-by-spoofing-crypto-researchers/

This is a simple example of "don't be in a hurry when surfing the internet", Many times people fall into this impersonated sites similarity scam is mainly when they are in a hurry, not frugally paying attention to what they are clicking. They just assume since the site has the letters they are familiar with so therefore it should be exact site they are clicking.

It's a pity a woofing $50k was lost by individuals to this scam before it was discovered , however, better late than never. For sure this action will continually surface which is why the caveat should be on us that targeted users be cautious, attentive, never get tired/bored of cross checking a site eaxh time you are to use/click on it if it's the actual site you intend to use.

Don't let laziness cause you your fortune.

People need to consider that this impersonation exist and they need to do extra effort to make their self safe by researching the real companies or person that they want to deal so that they would not be scammed by those people who use this technique to scam people. Researching will not cost a lot of time so much better for newbies to exert some little efforts to locate those legit and directly send a message to them. They also need to remember that a legit corporation will not pm them first but rather you will be the one who would approach them. Since if someone will send you a private message then tag it as scam and avoid so that we will not fall on their scams.

Being lazy will give us a huge benefit but rather it will just give us a headache and financial loss that's why to avoid it better if we could just do a research on everything we do since its important if we know how this people work so that we are away for any type of scamming.

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$50,000 wow but it's dissappointing how we humans will just put high hopes on someone and never ever try to consider anything they say again if it's false, like if these individuals are gods themselves or being cautious of impersonation online on those they follow. It's dissappointing but this will continue but if anyone in this Forum falls victim then they should really be ashamed because one thing I have learnt from this forum is that the Internet is not always a safe place.

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Quote from: Dave1 on November 16, 2023, 03:48:15 AM

Good that this website has been taken down and offline, but the criminals was able to run off initially with $50,000. And I felt sorry for those victims. So in any case that this kind of attacks resurfaces again, just be cautious though and check everything first before you go and click any link.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fraudsters-make-50-000-a-day-by-spoofing-crypto-researchers/

This is a simple example of "don't be in a hurry when surfing the internet", Many times people fall into this impersonated sites similarity scam is mainly when they are in a hurry, not frugally paying attention to what they are clicking. They just assume since the site has the letters they are familiar with so therefore it should be exact site they are clicking.

It's a pity a woofing $50k was lost by individuals to this scam before it was discovered , however, better late than never. For sure this action will continually surface which is why the caveat should be on us that targeted users be cautious, attentive, never get tired/bored of cross checking a site eaxh time you are to use/click on it if it's the actual site you intend to use.

Don't let laziness cause you your fortune.

Yamane_Keto

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I did not imagine that Twitter links could convince people to click on them, especially after the possibility of purchasing verification, which in my opinion would make all accounts suspicious.
How did scammers steal money? Did they link the wallet or did they ask users to enter the seeds because simply clicking on a phishing link is not enough to steal your money?

Dave1

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There were reports of another scam attack thru impersonation, but this time it's different, they uses blockchain analytics or crypto fraud investigation firms and researchers, like CertiK, ZachXBT, and Scam Sniffer to fabricate that there was such breaches on Uniswap and OpenSea.

So to impersonate, this cyber criminals a Twitter name that resembles the legit ones. For example,

ZachXBT has the account @zachxbt, while the criminals created and tweeted from @zacheryxbt.

And after you click, you will be redirected to two websites:

Code:

http://revoketokens.io/

Code:

http://revokea.sh/

Good that this website has been taken down and offline, but the criminals was able to run off initially with $50,000. And I felt sorry for those victims. So in any case that this kind of attacks resurfaces again, just be cautious though and check everything first before you go and click any link.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fraudsters-make-50-000-a-day-by-spoofing-crypto-researchers/

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