Losing crypto via phishing: sad but avoidable

[Nheer]

The most important thing is to be always vigilant and to triple check the site URL you are logging in to make sure it is the legit one.

The online world is very tricky and everyone needs to careful how they interact with things online because no one can be trusted and nothing seems to be safe that why we need to be always careful and vigilant all the time, we should not always click on any link without cross checking the authenticity of the link else we may end up falling victim to scammers.

Yes, checking the url of the sites that you are visiting is very important, but did you know that people that are affected by phishing attack do not even know knowledge into click on the link at all. The best would be to know when phishing email or message is sent and just avoid it. No need to click on the link attacked to the message. It is good to also discard the emails and others means of getting those messages. Also you can report the messages as spam and block the account that is sending it.

Some people don’t have the knowledge about phishing emails that’s why don’t know that avoiding it will be the best thing and it is because they lack knowledge about it. Every new beginner is expected to learn first so tgey will be exposed to certain situations and know what to do when they encounter such situations.

[God Of Thunder]

Right now, most people in the cryptocurrency industry are already aware of phishing and there are now many safeguard tools that can help us avoid this problem. The most important thing is to be always vigilant and to triple check the site URL you are logging in to make sure it is the legit one.

Most people are aware of phishing, yet fall into that category. I suggest people double and triple-check the link before connecting their wallet to a website. But, a few months ago, I fell for a phishing scam. It mostly happens when you are careless because you think you are veteran enough. I was on my smartphone scrolling social media late at at night and received an email from Galaxyy whichsaids I forgot to claim some rewards. I did not check the URL and connected my wallet and boom! My wallet was drained.

It's not like I don't know how it works. I know it very well, but I was confident that I not that stupid to connect my wallet on a random website. The problem is, I was lazy to check the URL and the email sender. Veretan members even fall for scam just because they do not pay attention when needed.

[Lucius]

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Veretan members even fall for scam just because they do not pay attention when needed.

That's why you should have some security practices that would include having one or more e-mails that are only for cryptocurrencies, and that you can't access them on your phone, but only on your desktop computer. Experienced people separate things that fall under work and what falls under family/free time - and that means that I will never get any offer that will come at a time when I don't have full attention to such things.

There is a case where someone was left without a lot of money in a similar situation as you - he was tired and for some strange reason he made a transaction that he shouldn't have made, I think it was due to the poisoning address scam or something similar.

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[God Of Thunder]

That's why you should have some security practices that would include having one or more e-mails that are only for cryptocurrencies, and that you can't access them on your phone, but only on your desktop computer. Experienced people separate things that fall under work and what falls under family/free time - and that means that I will never get any offer that will come at a time when I don't have full attention to such things.

We learn from our mistakes. I do not use Web3 wallets on my mobile device anymore, or at least I do not connect them to any websites. About my emails, that specific email was exclusive for doing airdrops. So, I assume it was an airdrop website that was hacked, or they sold emails on the dark web or something similar. I was supposed not to receive any spam emails except where I signed up using this email.

That was another reason I did not doubt the email. I thought it was from Galaxy, and I went ahead without thinking about other possibilities. I was fucked up. I quickly disconnected the wallet and tried to cancel the transaction. But it was too late already. The entire wallet was drained except for the Polygon chain.

[Publictalk792]

We learn from our mistakes. I do not use Web3 wallets on my mobile device anymore, or at least I do not connect them to any websites. About my emails, that specific email was exclusive for doing airdrops. So, I assume it was an airdrop website that was hacked, or they sold emails on the dark web or something similar. I was supposed not to receive any spam emails except where I signed up using this email.

That was another reason I did not doubt the email. I thought it was from Galaxy, and I went ahead without thinking about other possibilities. I was fucked up. I quickly disconnected the wallet and tried to cancel the transaction. But it was too late already. The entire wallet was drained except for the Polygon chain.

Your cryptocurrency mistake teaches us to be cautious and skeptical. You shared their error to warn us about connecting mobile wallets to websites and fake emails even from trusted sources. To avoid losing money users should keep wallets secure and check senders authenticity and beware of scams. Being vigilant is important in cryptocurrency. This experience shows that learning from mistakes helps others stay safe in complex crypto world. Thank you for sharing.

[NotATether]

I use quite a few extensions to block out phishing links, in addition to my  email provider filtering out most of the emails in the first place (And honestly, if your email provider doesn't move messages to spam properly, get another mailbox!)

- uBlock Origin: Blocks most ads and trackers.
- uBlock Origin Lite: Same but an extra layer.
- Adguard: Same but an extra layer.
- Malwarebytes Browser Guard: Blocks scams and phishing.

And then there are websites like urlscan.io and radar.cloudflare.com for checking if a website could be a phishing site, as well as Phishtank.

[Doovla]

Hacked twice by fraudsters for whom I don't know the theft function because only the transfer of the transaction was done from the Binance exchange to my wallet, in other words, can the antiviruses from my computer prevent you from entering the fake sites that started your theft, maybe it is that solution for the alarm that arrives that the site is suspicious so it is blocked? I guess they use some kind of bots where they mark the address of the wallet with function condition codes and it's done for them.

[NotATether]

Hacked twice by fraudsters for whom I don't know the theft function because only the transfer of the transaction was done from the Binance exchange to my wallet, in other words, can the antiviruses from my computer prevent you from entering the fake sites that started your theft, maybe it is that solution for the alarm that arrives that the site is suspicious so it is blocked? I guess they use some kind of bots where they mark the address of the wallet with function condition codes and it's done for them.

Rule number one of dealing with digital assets: nobody cares about your coins!

Let that sink in.

If you see anybody trying to offer you help with your wallet that you didn't ask for, especially strangers you don't know, then chances are that these are just scammers who want to steal your money.

Nobody should let that happen, and should keep an array of browser extensions and addons on their devices that block such links. AVs are less useful here

[jeraldskie11]

Hacked twice by fraudsters for whom I don't know the theft function because only the transfer of the transaction was done from the Binance exchange to my wallet, in other words, can the antiviruses from my computer prevent you from entering the fake sites that started your theft, maybe it is that solution for the alarm that arrives that the site is suspicious so it is blocked? I guess they use some kind of bots where they mark the address of the wallet with function condition codes and it's done for them.

Rule number one of dealing with digital assets: nobody cares about your coins!

Let that sink in.

If you see anybody trying to offer you help with your wallet that you didn't ask for, especially strangers you don't know, then chances are that these are just scammers who want to steal your money.

Nobody should let that happen, and should keep an array of browser extensions and addons on their devices that block such links. AVs are less useful here

Even your best friend you have to be careful. Money is the root of sin, your friend can be tempted to do bad things to you as long as he knows that you have a lot of money. Especially if he knows that the money comes from crypto, people's thoughts if they know that is where your money comes from, they will look at you as rich. It is also possible that they will change their view of you. You better keep it private. Not only for your benefit but also for others.

[Gurujebs]

Your cryptocurrency mistake teaches us to be cautious and skeptical. You shared their error to warn us about connecting mobile wallets to websites and fake emails even from trusted sources. To avoid losing money users should keep wallets secure and check senders authenticity and beware of scams. Being vigilant is important in cryptocurrency. This experience shows that learning from mistakes helps others stay safe in complex crypto world. Thank you for sharing.

You know one thing about crypto is that each bull run has it own mistakes and they are unique but they are kind of familiar. If you look at the last bullrun, many people fell for the NFT frenzy and bought huge amount of NFTs and today, they are worth nothing in market, the funny thing is that these NFTs is that they are not having buyers, volume.

People bought many memes this bull run that has died doesn't have volume again, that's another lesson but the common thing I found about them is that they are bound by greed and if you reduce your greediness in crypto, you wouldn't fall for scams and lose huge amount of money.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

Even your best friend you have to be careful. Money is the root of sin, your friend can be tempted to do bad things to you as long as he knows that you have a lot of money. Especially if he knows that the money comes from crypto, people's thoughts if they know that is where your money comes from, they will look at you as rich. It is also possible that they will change their view of you. You better keep it private. Not only for your benefit but also for others.

I totally agree with you. The world has become very evil and dangerous and it's hard to find people you can trust your life and money with with them trying to exploit or take advantage of you. I'm not saying there aren't trustworthy people in the world anymore, there are lots of them but you'd never know because even people who are not, still pretend to be, and when you let your guard down, they strike you and sometimes you don't even know they're the ones who stroke you and you still consider them faithful. That's why the best way to avoid such situations is to better keep your mouth shut and never expose some sensitive information to others. The quieter you are, the safer you'll be.

[erus]

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Right now, most people in the cryptocurrency industry are already aware of phishing and there are now many safeguard tools that can help us avoid this problem. The most important thing is to be always vigilant and to triple check the site URL you are logging in to make sure it is the legit one.

I also currently tend to double check every crypto-themed website so that I am more aware of every phishing. I want to just log in to altcoinstalks, I probably check the website more than 2x because I'm afraid of getting a phishing website.
But it seems like there are still many people out there who get phishing websites because they don't know or are not careful about the information provided by the crypto project. It all comes back to ourselves if we are already in the crypto circle. DWYOR is very necessary.

[|MINER|]

There is one thing in common among all the major hacking in the crypto world and that is the first step of all hacking is phishing. And this phishing issue is being used by scammers from the beginning until this digital era. And in this digital age where phishing has become more serious because people easily fall into the trap of hackers.
And if you see it is a favorite way for hackers to hack. There is only one way to protect yourself from phishing and that is to verify enough before clicking on each link and if there is any doubt, to use different websites for checking malware first, I will prefer virus total from this point of view. Besides doing these things, using hardware wallet for fund holding.

[smartaction]

There is one thing in common among all the major hacking in the crypto world and that is the first step of all hacking is phishing. And this phishing issue is being used by scammers from the beginning until this digital era. And in this digital age where phishing has become more serious because people easily fall into the trap of hackers.
And if you see it is a favorite way for hackers to hack. There is only one way to protect yourself from phishing and that is to verify enough before clicking on each link and if there is any doubt, to use different websites for checking malware first, I will prefer virus total from this point of view. Besides doing these things, using hardware wallet for fund holding.

Hackers use phishing links as a big weapon of hacking. There are some people who click on the links without looking at the links and become victims of hacking. We need to get rid of all these phishing links only then we will not be victims of any kind of hacking. As the days go by.  Hackers try to trap people by using many digital techniques. These are increasing day by day and we have to be careful to avoid them but sometimes we get hacked due to our own mistakes. When a person falls into the trap of hackers all his documents starting from personal  Everything will go under the control of the hacker.

[bayu7adi]

I also currently tend to double check every crypto-themed website so that I am more aware of every phishing. I want to just log in to altcoinstalks, I probably check the website more than 2x because I'm afraid of getting a phishing website.

I always bookmark important sites that I often visit, such as the altcoinstalks forum... I always point my cursor to the bookmarks bar to open the forum (not typing it in google anymore)... I don't know whether this forum has ever been targeted for phishing or not, what is certain is that the method I use is quite safe for forums...

For other things related to money, I also double-check the URL and always activate the antiphishing feature if available.. not all websites have antiphishing features, so I am more vigilant on websites that cannot use the feature yet