Topic: Watch out for scammers (Read 508 times)
Everyone who has some stake and has invested in crypto should be on the look out for scammers as they are everywhere. Some have schemes that they have come up with to get people to put their private keys into phishing sites and then they steal all of their crypto. Everyone needs to be very careful, crypto is very safe on its own but scammers and hackers are what make it dangerous
I do not even know how this can happen. I do not send my personal keys to anyone. Perhaps they are just trained to receive very personal information without our permission.
This is silly. Most likely because of their mistakes people accidentally send private keys from their wallet. Moreover, we are small people who have nothing to steal. And even more so to guess the key of 64 characters is almost impossible.
It's not silly, and you're not even close to how people steal files and password information. The likely guess is that the email may contain a link to a website that has an exploit kit on it, delivering an encrypted botnet payload designed to steal wallet files and keylog the passwords. Also the airdrops wallets they tell you to download may just have an encrypted botnet bind on the file as well that executes hidden when the other file executes.
Do not waste your time in airdrops wont get your private keys,normally they will just require you to fill up some form with your bitcontalk account,wallet address and optional with email addresses you can use dummy email address so that you wont receive phishing emails from these people.
Start doing bounties Bro
Start doing bounties Bro
hi folks I want to warn all the participants in the airdrops There are a bunch of scammers They steal the privet key of myetherwallet i dont know how they do that but i think by sending you an email and when you check the email and click on it they can access to all the file in your pc and steal the key i dont know how that works i'm not an expert so don't put any of the private key in the computer or in your phones .
Oh,thanks for the information! Another proof that joining airdrops is a waste of time and energy. I have decided for myself long ago not to them, instead I prefer participating in bounty campaignes. It takes more efforts, but the result is better!
unknown through the mail or not to pump out the information, but it is better to keep valuable data not in the computer. I have all the most important things on a removable media , not even one .
hi folks I want to warn all the participants in the airdrops There are a bunch of scammers They steal the privet key of myetherwallet i dont know how they do that but i think by sending you an email and when you check the email and click on it they can access to all the file in your pc and steal the key i dont know how that works i'm not an expert so don't put any of the private key in the computer or in your phones .
Airdrop scams are increasing nowadays since it is very accessible and easy to most cryptocurrency traders who are looking for easy profit plus its normal for some airdrops to ask informations which can easily be altered by phishing sites. I suggest that you participate airdrops carefully and maybe join the telegram group first and observe the community.
If there are 100 airdrop 60-70 of them try to steal your funds bro. I use my rpi for airdrops mail and I'm relax with that.
Seriously?
But I think it depends on information that you will give from any site, in that way there's a big chance to steal your funds. The better you should do is don't just clicking any link that someone's give because there's possibility that is the way to hack.
This is silly. Most likely because of their mistakes people accidentally send private keys from their wallet. Moreover, we are small people who have nothing to steal. And even more so to guess the key of 64 characters is almost impossible.
There are some phishing sites, they imitate etherdelta, but they have subtle differences, maybe etherdelta2.com, or etherdelte.com, so when you have to open your eyes.
EtherDelta isn't safe this year due to many attacks on their servers and even on their DNS that you'll then redirected on their clone phishing website in order to get your keys.
Phishing is one of their main attack because blockchain servers are 99% attack proof so their only way to get money is to attack crypto holders remotely.
hi folks I want to warn all the participants in the airdrops There are a bunch of scammers They steal the privet key of myetherwallet i dont know how they do that but i think by sending you an email and when you check the email and click on it they can access to all the file in your pc and steal the key i dont know how that works i'm not an expert so don't put any of the private key in the computer or in your phones .
It's ok to join any bounty campaigns or airdrops available on this forum but never give your private keys for you not to be scammed.
Open MyEtherWallet on your browser and hit bookmark in order not to open phishing sites in the future.
That will prevent you on losing your crypto assets because you are the owner of your wallet and you are only the responsible on taking care of it.
There are some phishing sites, they imitate etherdelta, but they have subtle differences, maybe etherdelta2.com, or etherdelte.com, so when you have to open your eyes.
At this point I would not advise anyone to participate in any kind of airdrops because almost all of them are scammers that are looking for a way to steal your coins by asking you to paste your private keys to log into your wallets in order to earn the coins from the airdrops. DON'T DO IT. Stay away from airdrops and if you need to earn some free tokens then do bounty and signature campaigns.
Good post, to add to what you have sais, everyone should let it be your part of core not to click on untrusted links, that is how people are being hacked of private keys.
Thanks for the heads up, but I personally think it is unwise to store your private keys eletronically. Quite risky. Put it on a sheet of paper, with that it can never be hacked.
hi folks I want to warn all the participants in the airdrops There are a bunch of scammers They steal the privet key of myetherwallet i dont know how they do that but i think by sending you an email and when you check the email and click on it they can access to all the file in your pc and steal the key i dont know how that works i'm not an expert so don't put any of the private key in the computer or in your phones .
Thanks for the warning. I dont join airdrops by the way they are just a waste of time. Aside from they don pay, they will take thousands of participants so get only very few valueless tokens. Will reauire you also to,perform tasks whis is a waste of time also. Better bounty than airdrops. hi folks I want to warn all the participants in the airdrops There are a bunch of scammers They steal the privet key of myetherwallet i dont know how they do that but i think by sending you an email and when you check the email and click on it they can access to all the file in your pc and steal the key i dont know how that works i'm not an expert so don't put any of the private key in the computer or in your phones .
Airdops cannot steal your private key because airdrop only got your ETH address during the survey or the form that you are going to fillup and submitted to thier site. The reason why we are scam its because we give directly our private and personal information and also wen we are applying on airdrops. But thank you for this information this is a big help for us.
As they say there's no such thing as a free lunch. Thanks for the info. I'll keep it on mind
You are absolutely on point. I observed most of shit airdrops out there are just their to collect people’s information and keep spamming emails after getting the information. Bunch of scammers, no doubt
Thanks for sharing this case, i joined airdrop only from legit project. I prefer to join bounty program and spend times for trading. Airdrop is small reward and sometime waste times to handle it when sell the token in exchange. For the better more focus on bounty and altcoin trading.
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