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Crypto Discussion Forum => Cryptocurrency discussions => Topic started by: NotATether on May 02, 2024, 11:38:44 AM
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Now, as some of you reading this know, I am a well-off person who doesn't need to scrape airdrops in order to live. But recently, I have started to receive many phishing emails from people looking to take over my Github account. The messages go something like this:
"We see you have contributed to web3.py [this is true] and that you are elligible for a XYZ airdrop [or some other acronym] so please allow me to use your Github account for 10 minutes so that I can help you claim it."
Or other times its "Please give us money so that we can claim the airdrop for you."
Now I have not attempted to claim any airdrop or reply to these people but what I am certain is that someone, somewhere, has indeed added me to an airdrop. Maybe this one: https://airdrops.io/starknet/
But I'm not going to take any of them. I don't care about airdrops and I'm jsut writing this to warn you guys of similar phishing attempts I have received in my mailbox.
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"We see you have contributed to web3.py [this is true] and that you are elligible for a XYZ airdrop [or some other acronym] so please allow me to use your Github account for 10 minutes so that I can help you claim it."
Or other times its "Please give us money so that we can claim the airdrop for you."
Well, I can't believe that in 2024 scammers are still using such outdated content, at least they should find some way that is actually more credible ^^ What's even more unbelievable is that many people still continue to be scammed, lose their accounts and crypto assets to scammers because of such silly content. Be careful with any information that is actively sent to our email, as it may come with some risk. Thank you for sharing this information so that we can all be more vigilant.
I also realize that our data is being abused in some way: our emails, phone numbers, and social media accounts are being sold to scammers, we are becoming a commodity and potential victims. Just 1% of the people who receive these emails get scammed, the scammer can be satisfied and continue to attack more people in many different ways in the future :(
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Now, as some of you reading this know, I am a well-off person who doesn't need to scrape airdrops in order to live. But recently, I have started to receive many phishing emails from people looking to take over my Github account. The messages go something like this:
"We see you have contributed to web3.py [this is true] and that you are elligible for a XYZ airdrop [or some other acronym] so please allow me to use your Github account for 10 minutes so that I can help you claim it."
Or other times its "Please give us money so that we can claim the airdrop for you."
Now I have not attempted to claim any airdrop or reply to these people but what I am certain is that someone, somewhere, has indeed added me to an airdrop. Maybe this one: https://airdrops.io/starknet/
But I'm not going to take any of them. I don't care about airdrops and I'm jsut writing this to warn you guys of similar phishing attempts I have received in my mailbox.
Phishing emails are common even if you don't know about the crypto, as the attacker are alway looking for innocent targets.
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Now, as some of you reading this know, I am a well-off person who doesn't need to scrape airdrops in order to live. I'm not going to take any of them. I don't care about airdrops and I'm just writing this to warn you guys of similar phishing attempts I have received in my mailbox.
I am wishing that am also a well-off person just like you so please rub some of your luck to me in the world of cryptocurrency though I know you must have been working hard to be where you are now so congratulations and I am happy for me. So far, I still have to see some barrage of emails with the intent to victimize me and maybe because I am not active with my Github account as I am a very much technically-challenged guy. However, I do always receive many private messages in Twitter telling me to participate with this and that...and I know for sure those are just another scams and I already know how to avoid them. These days, as more and more people are getting interested to be a part of the cryptocurrency industry, there is a correlated growth of people who are using many creative ways to connect with people and scam them as much as they can. We have to be careful always...we must always doubt and must think thrice before jumping into anything as we can never be sure if we are thrown to the deep blue sea or to a burning frying pan.
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Now, as some of you reading this know, I am a well-off person who doesn't need to scrape airdrops in order to live. But recently, I have started to receive many phishing emails from people looking to take over my Github account. The messages go something like this:
"We see you have contributed to web3.py [this is true] and that you are elligible for a XYZ airdrop [or some other acronym] so please allow me to use your Github account for 10 minutes so that I can help you claim it."
Or other times its "Please give us money so that we can claim the airdrop for you."
Now I have not attempted to claim any airdrop or reply to these people but what I am certain is that someone, somewhere, has indeed added me to an airdrop. Maybe this one: https://airdrops.io/starknet/
But I'm not going to take any of them. I don't care about airdrops and I'm jsut writing this to warn you guys of similar phishing attempts I have received in my mailbox.
Phishing emails are common even if you don't know about the crypto, as the attacker are alway looking for innocent targets.
Yeah true. That is why we should be careful on clicking links that was sent to us as we all know that phishing links may looks legit and if we are hesitant about it or in doubt just don't click or else something like our funds would be stolen without us knowing.
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Phishing emails are common even if you don't know about the crypto, as the attacker are alway looking for innocent targets.
Considering that there are hundreds or even thousands of hacked databases that are shared or sold online, it is not at all surprising that most people receive such a spam/phishing e-mail from time to time. My advice is not to ignore such an e-mail, but to use the option to report it as spam, which means that after a certain number of reports, the same e-mail will be forwarded directly to the spam folder of other e-mail boxes.
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Well, I can't believe that in 2024 scammers are still using such outdated content, at least they should find some way that is actually more credible ^^ What's even more unbelievable is that many people still continue to be scammed, lose their accounts and crypto assets to scammers because of such silly content.
You answered the question that you can't believe such scam or hack still exists. You later added that some people are still getting scammed. Many people are ignorant and scammers are using a scam means to still be able to scam them. Scammers will continue to use it if people are still falling for the scam and not having any issue with it. Airdrop scam is still common and some people will not understand, especially newbies.
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Many scammer still use this method for scamming us by sending phising email, usually they are giving about claim coins or token trough phising email link and make us believing with reward airdrop receiving.
Many kinds or method using by scammer currently behind several airdrop need claiming firstly for receiving coins, some scammer sending phising link to our email account and other scammer make modify or make similar phising link from official airdrop claiming coins.
be careful and don't use primary email for joining an airdrop because your email not privacy any more after filling form in airdrop project.
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Many scammer still use this method for scamming us by sending phising email, usually they are giving about claim coins or token trough phising email link and make us believing with reward airdrop receiving.
Many kinds or method using by scammer currently behind several airdrop need claiming firstly for receiving coins, some scammer sending phising link to our email account and other scammer make modify or make similar phising link from official airdrop claiming coins.
be careful and don't use primary email for joining an airdrop because your email not privacy any more after filling form in airdrop project.
This is nothing new, but it seems that there are still many people who are still fooled by this type of fraud. I also often get emails or private messages, but I don't pay attention to them.
Even if I'm curious, I can immediately check their official information. For example, I can directly ask them on their social media and that is very helpful because usually they respond quickly if there is something suspicious. What is clear is that we must not be lazy to check further, including asking the team.
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I just noticed that the number of times I've witnessed a bull run is that during times like this, the scammers are even more desperate. The thickness of the face is the courage of lime; the face of these scammers like that is also very thick. They really make their victims stupid.
When that's what you say to receive airdrop's, it's really obvious that they're scammers; you shouldn't accommodate them.
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I just noticed that the number of times I've witnessed a bull run is that during times like this, the scammers are even more desperate.
Scammers are not desperate, they are just seizing an opportunity when people are more interested in cryptocurrencies than usual. Spam/phishing e-mails are something that happens constantly and I personally have not noticed that I receive more such messages than usual.
The thickness of the face is the courage of lime; the face of these scammers like that is also very thick. They really make their victims stupid.
I would rather say that the victims make themselves stupid, because realistically no scammer of that type can do anything without a naive victim. In other words, these same scammers would disappear very quickly if they didn't have a very good reason to do exactly what they do.
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Phishing emails are common even if you don't know about the crypto, as the attacker are alway looking for innocent targets.
Scammers will continue to do this they know that there will always be newbies that will be enticed to connect their wallets and claims, another scheme of these airdrops is launching task campaigns to increase the followers of their social media or their clients, some airdrops are even referral based.
People should stop doing worthless airdrops if the platform does not have utility or usage or they are being used to do tasks like bounty campaigns.
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I don't care about airdrops and I'm jsut writing this to warn you guys of similar phishing attempts I have received in my mailbox.
Lol, I can't even remember the last time I actually checked my mail. Gmail is the most rarely used app on my phone. It's filled with thousands of emails, but I'm so lazy that I never checked them. The only time I use it is when I need OTP or email confirmation. So I'm kinda safe from these kind of scams. :)
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"We see you have contributed to web3.py [this is true] and that you are elligible for a XYZ airdrop [or some other acronym] so please allow me to use your Github account for 10 minutes so that I can help you claim it."
Or other times its "Please give us money so that we can claim the airdrop for you."
This is a very '90's way of scamming people TBH. A very common way of scamming people, but it seems like it's working because they are still using it.
Anyway, I didn't expect that scammers will beg for money. :D
Kidding aside, I'm joining airdrops a few times this year, but those are the ones that requires me to stake some X tokens in order to get this airdrop (for ex. ATOM and OSMO to get TIA airdrop, etc.). I don't join to this type of airdrops, but I'm the type of a guy who is very suspicious at first hence, when I see that the email or the content of the text suspicious, I just simply ignore it like what I'm doing for many years already.
If you're the type of person that's joining airdrops, maybe getting the official emails of those projects might help so that it will decrease your chances of getting scammed. Don't entertain random emails unless you want to troll them. :D
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Thank you for the warning
In fact, I have dozens, perhaps hundreds, of these garbage emails in my inbox. I always ignore them, but I am tired of their large number. Fortunately, they come to me on my secondary mail because I rarely share my primary mail on websites.
What makes me laugh the most about these scam emails are those that ask you for some money or fees to send an airdrop. This is a very stupid method of phishing, and I cannot believe that anyone could fall into this ridiculous trap.
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Thank you for the warning
In fact, I have dozens, perhaps hundreds, of these garbage emails in my inbox. I always ignore them, but I am tired of their large number. Fortunately, they come to me on my secondary mail because I rarely share my primary mail on websites.
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Don't you have an automatic emptying of the spam box after x days? I know that Gmail has that option, so if you don't move such e-mails from the spam folder in, say, 30 days, they are automatically deleted. But if a sender bothers you, simply mark it as spam and you will help yourself and others.
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Thank you for the information. You are a reputable member here and on the other platform. So when you talked of you receiving mails from scammers, I do not doubt it but I just laugh at the scammers because they are wasting their time thinking they would get at you. You have been in the system for quite a long time with vast knowledge and experience so nobody would easily get you scammed so easily.
Scammers are now on the spree looking for where to get money from at this period. Every one needs to be very much careful so the they do not fall victim to their gimmicks. Avoid clicking links you have knowledge of and if possible, delete the message immediately if you do not know the source.
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Lol, I can't even remember the last time I actually checked my mail. Gmail is the most rarely used app on my phone. It's filled with thousands of emails, but I'm so lazy that I never checked them. The only time I use it is when I need OTP or email confirmation. So I'm kinda safe from these kind of scams. :)
I use Proton Mail so 99% of the time it autosends all these phishing messages to Spam anyway. It's got an automatic garbage collector too but I'm sure all email providers have that enabled these days.
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Many scammer still use this method for scamming us by sending phising email, usually they are giving about claim coins or token trough phising email link and make us believing with reward airdrop receiving.
Many kinds or method using by scammer currently behind several airdrop need claiming firstly for receiving coins, some scammer sending phising link to our email account and other scammer make modify or make similar phising link from official airdrop claiming coins.
be careful and don't use primary email for joining an airdrop because your email not privacy any more after filling form in airdrop project.
Some days ago i fall this kinds of phising email. So i am practicality experienced about this scam. So we have to aware about it. Now a days scammers are using phising email frequently and many people falling in this trap. So i think we have to more aware about phising email or any kinds of unverified link. If we unable to census about it we will loss our valuable fund.
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We really have to be careful when working on an Airdrop, especially if Baird is successful. Because usually fraudsters know which Airdrops are successful or not, so they pretend to be their official team and send emails containing fake or phishing links to steal our data.
So we have to be really careful, apart from email, fraudsters most often spread phishing links via Twitter.
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The guise of fraud in the world of cryptocurrency is the most complex, taking advantage of the innocence of newbies to carry out stupid orders that actually don't make sense. Borrowing a GitHub account for 10 minutes is the same as giving someone 100% access for 10 minutes... and I don't think everyone wants that to happen... because the bad possibilities that arise will be many and very risky.
This reminds us that we must always be alert when surfing the internet and must always be prepared for all the worst possibilities that could happen to us in doing business online, including in the world of cryptocurrency.
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Thanks for sharing this news with us, although you are not involved in airdrops and must be giving a good attention to your emails, but most of the airdrop hunters use spare emails especially made for airdrops and they don't even look at the mail section regularly but just to join airdrops. All the information they need is taken by TG groups. And speaking of this specific airdrop starknet, I heard a news that a Chinese airdrop hunter somehow pulled to earn $90k worth of STRK by creating multiple accounts and by acquiring multiple IDs.
Chinese authorities arrest suspect in StarkNet airdrop identity scam (https://cryptobriefing.com/starknet-airdrop-fraud-identity-theft/)
Later he got caught by the police and now is in custody. There are many airdrop farmers in this field who are farming single airdrops from multiple wallets. I myself join airdrops and fortunately made some bucks. And that's why I know people are joining from multiple wallets. For example recently there was a raffle for a game which is to be played to some level in order to join it. Well, It was dumb but I thought I should give a shot I played that game for 13 hours and did not won.
While I read a comment of another airdrop on TG that he joined from 8 accounts and his 5 accounts got selected and he won around 112$ on each account. I was frustrated first but also amazed to see how much effort that person would have made to reach that game level.
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Don't you have an automatic emptying of the spam box after x days? I know that Gmail has that option, so if you don't move such e-mails from the spam folder in, say, 30 days, they are automatically deleted. But if a sender bothers you, simply mark it as spam and you will help yourself and others.
Yes, of course, this feature is present in Gmail and it is very helpful. It automatically removes spam messages after about a month. There are many of these messages that are filtered by Gmail to the spam inbox, but despite that, there are many of them that reach the inbox and you have to move them immediately. Manual to spam box.
There is also the possibility of creating a filter to block a custom list of addresses, but despite all that, annoying phishing messages still arrive.
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Many scammer still use this method for scamming us by sending phising email, usually they are giving about claim coins or token trough phising email link and make us believing with reward airdrop receiving.
Many kinds or method using by scammer currently behind several airdrop need claiming firstly for receiving coins, some scammer sending phising link to our email account and other scammer make modify or make similar phising link from official airdrop claiming coins.
be careful and don't use primary email for joining an airdrop because your email not privacy any more after filling form in airdrop project.
Some days ago i fall this kinds of phising email. So i am practicality experienced about this scam. So we have to aware about it. Now a days scammers are using phising email frequently and many people falling in this trap. So i think we have to more aware about phising email or any kinds of unverified link. If we unable to census about it we will loss our valuable fund.
Scammers constantly send phishing links via email. they use various topics like Airdrop, Bonus, Lottery Win etc. to a large extent. Because people are greedy and if they can send someone an email with a potential structure, greedy people will click on it. Scammers are so smart now that many people are getting caught in their net. one thing everyone should always remember is that nothing is free you must earn something by hard work or investment. So if you get a message from any medium that you have won something they are totally a scam attempt
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Now I have not attempted to claim any airdrop or reply to these people but what I am certain is that someone, somewhere, has indeed added me to an airdrop. Maybe this one: https://airdrops.io/starknet/
I often get junk emails or other types of emails which are really annoying. Whether it's in the form of airdrops or other emails. Indeed, many of them contain various links in them, and I never intended to click on them. Because there are concerns about phishing links in the email. Since I used my main email for a purpose and it finally became public, a lot of emails came in. this is disturbing, very disturbing. but unfortunately we can't prevent emails from new contacts, right?
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Yes, of course, this feature is present in Gmail and it is very helpful. It automatically removes spam messages after about a month. There are many of these messages that are filtered by Gmail to the spam inbox, but despite that, there are many of them that reach the inbox and you have to move them immediately. Manual to spam box.
There is also the possibility of creating a filter to block a custom list of addresses, but despite all that, annoying phishing messages still arrive.
I assume that e-mail providers use some kind of algorithms that detect when someone sends messages to a large number of e-mails and detect it as spam - but they also probably rely on user feedback, which helps that some messages after being "marked as spam" automatically go to the spam folder for all other users.
Although sometimes people complain that they get too much spam, it's actually something they agreed to when they registered somewhere - and all you have to do is click the "unsubscribe button" at the bottom of every e-mail.
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Yes, of course, this feature is present in Gmail and it is very helpful. It automatically removes spam messages after about a month. There are many of these messages that are filtered by Gmail to the spam inbox, but despite that, there are many of them that reach the inbox and you have to move them immediately. Manual to spam box.
There is also the possibility of creating a filter to block a custom list of addresses, but despite all that, annoying phishing messages still arrive.
I assume that e-mail providers use some kind of algorithms that detect when someone sends messages to a large number of e-mails and detect it as spam - but they also probably rely on user feedback, which helps that some messages after being "marked as spam" automatically go to the spam folder for all other users.
The Metamask fakes are the worst. They always send them pretending that there is some ETH conference and event and that they want you to come and click on this link or something like that. I don't even use metamask. They are so annoying but usually get caught by the spam filter.
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The Metamask fakes are the worst.
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I had no need to ever use that wallet, especially when it only had a browser version it seemed like a really bad idea. But over the years I have read a lot of stories that had a very bad ending when it came to this wallet.
To me, the most "dangerous" are those phishing e-mails that want to steal seeds from hardware wallets, and some were really clever in their intentions. Not only the naive fell for this trick, but also those who panicked that they would lose their coins due to hardware failure and entered the seed on the phishing website without thinking and were left with nothing.
Fortunately, most of these so-called "hackers" are not very innovative in their methods, which only shows that most of them are amateurs who have very little success in their dirty work.
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Phishing emails are not threatening if they are received directly in the Spam folder of your email, but nowadays as I have noticed, some of these phishing emails are being shown in the Promoted tab in my Gmail which is surprising because Google isn't able to filter them out perfectly or maybe they are using some trick to get this done, but they should at least be able to filter the email addresses and send them to Spam if it is a regular email address.
Since I'm a bit experienced and already know about these things, it has never caused problems for me, but if the same thing happens to a newbie, receiving phishing emails in their main inbox or promotions tab, they will surely fall for them and lose their assets or accounts.
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Phishing emails are not threatening if they are received directly in the Spam folder of your email, but nowadays as I have noticed, some of these phishing emails are being shown in the Promoted tab in my Gmail which is surprising because Google isn't able to filter them out perfectly or maybe they are using some trick to get this done, but they should at least be able to filter the email addresses and send them to Spam if it is a regular email address.
Since I'm a bit experienced and already know about these things, it has never caused problems for me, but if the same thing happens to a newbie, receiving phishing emails in their main inbox or promotions tab, they will surely fall for them and lose their assets or accounts.
yups and those email of phishing will never affect us until we click them an this is what I never do , emails coming here and there but i mostly delete those from i do not expect.
random emails will directly be deleted no matter where they come from and for me this is the best way to prevent ourselve from being phished .