Fake Bounties using Phishing

[huesca123 946]

Wheres theres money, there will be scammers / hackers. Somebody once asked a bank robber why he robbed banks. His answer ?¿?¿ Because thats where the money is !!!!!! DUH !!!!!!! The same goes for the crypto currency scams / hacks. They are looking for the money. They also know that people are lazy & many times just click on anything they see.

[M.Asif 499]

Now a days black internet is more then real. Hackers and scammers are always active every time to stole your assets. So before using any bounties confirm about it completely. Also I want to suggest that you should create short topics as lengthy are time consuming and not read by users.

[Devh 564]

On 10/6/2020 at 1:16 AM, sicattjl said:

Phishing consists of the impersonation of an authority, company or even someone, in order to trick the victim into revealing their confidential information. In this way, the attacker can access your accounts or wallets and steal the funds.

We can distinguish several types of phishing used in the crypto world:

 

Cloned sites
This is the most common type. Here the scammers prepare a website identical to the legitimate one, which can be from an exchange house or online wallet to the official page of an Initial Coin Offering (ICO), and spread it through different means, including email, chats and even Google ads that can be mistaken for the original page in search results.
It is not unusual that, in the case of email and chats, the link to the fraudulent site is accompanied by some false story about the company requiring the user to log into their account. Thus, when the victim enters their credentials to enter the supposed site, what they are actually doing is giving them to the attacker.

 

The most effective way to avoid this scam is to look closely at the URL of each page where we have funds before entering any credentials. In phishing, the URL always changes in some character, since the domain (name) of the company or project is already taken and it is not possible that there are two exactly alike. In this sense, once we identify the real page, we should save it in Favorites and enter there, instead of using the search results.

This was the case with MyEtherWallet last year, while this year among the cloned sites are the popular Blockchain.info domain and the Token Bee ICO, where cybercriminals managed to steal up to $ 700,000.

 

Fake support teams
Sometimes scammers save themselves the trouble of creating the fake site by simply posing as the support team of some legitimate platform, including exchanges and wallets. In this way, the only thing they imitate are the logos and the email address of the company within the message they send to their victims to announce any alleged inconvenience and request their private information with the false purpose of helping them.

 

As the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center explains: "The fraudulent support requests access to the victim's virtual wallet and transfers the victim's virtual currency to another wallet for a temporary hold during maintenance. The virtual currency it is never returned to the victim, and the criminal ceases all communication. Criminals who have access to the victim's electronic device use the victim's personal information and credit card to purchase and transfer virtual money to an account controlled by the criminal ".

 

It is important to remember in these cases that both traditional financial companies and cryptocurrency platforms never ask for your credentials, under any circumstances. Simply because they already have them.

 

Phone scams or vishing (voice phishing)
In this case, the scammers do not contact you directly, but rather your phone company. After finding out your phone number and even your identification number and address thanks to a stolen invoice or because you simply published that information at some point, the attacker contacts the company to transfer your line to a new SIM card under his control.

Since the security of several telephone companies is usually quite weak in these cases, the operator will ask the attacker very little information to confirm his identity. If successful, the criminal will be able to reset all the passwords of the legitimate user using two-step authentication, that is, the code that reaches the phone and that usually serves as an extra layer of security. In this way, online wallets could be emptied in a matter of minutes, long before the rightful owner can do anything.

 

This happened to Cody Brown, who had to see his 8 thousand dollars in cryptocurrencies disappear in fifteen minutes. A similar case was that of Jered Kenna, who lost up to $ 40,000 for each day that he failed to resolve the problem with the phone company.

A similar scenario
It may also happen that the phone scam targets you. In this way, someone could contact you posing as a company, tell you a false story and not only ask for your credentials, but also urge you to deposit funds in a portfolio.

This is what happened to an elderly woman in Canada: a scammer contacted her by phone, assuring her that she was a member of the local police and that she owed a large sum in taxes, so she had to go to bitcoin ATMs to solve them . Before the fraud was discovered, the woman deposited 17 thousand dollars

 

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Exactly, these scammers are getting more n more sharp ways to make you victims. You'll receive many emails and PMs about such phishing techniques. But in reality these are just scammers. About 2 weeks ago my friend ask me for some ethereum, when i asked him reason then he told me that he need to pay the Gas fees for claiming a bounty on telegram. But when i ask information about him they were using so sharp way to make victim the new guys. We should careful because as technology improving the cheaters also improving.

[Fkka 22]

If they think, they postpone the delivery date for 3 months, many will forget about grace. I believe the administrators have only made this announcement because, they think, the price will go down if they give the prize, as it has already been dropped the project will also go down.

[meme9988 13]

Yes, I agree with you. There are many fake grants that fraudsters use to gain people's trust and then steal their personal information and money, so we have to be careful.

Edited January 19, 2021 by meme9988

[Jeff J Carrel 27]

This type of fraud was once common, but now it's no longer the case because people have become well aware of these twisted, stupid ways.

[ltaa02 52]

There are many scam methods on the Internet, a lot of beginners in this field fall into them, sometimes huge losses, legal authorities have to put an end to them.

[Crpto❤️ 55]

Yes you are right and there are many types of scammers like that are moving in the digital field. And try to explain them as they are the perfect and experienced person in this field. But we have to avoid them as I also get this game. I was had my little bit my only clicking a link and my income was gone. So be careful and save your income.

[MMehediH 11]

Friends, these people allow people to enter sensitive information on a site through fraudulent emails or posts that could easily hack your wallet and cause you to lose your money.  So always be careful.

[Zoiakhan 85]

Dear There are many fraud on internet . There are many fake bounties from phishing websites. We should be very careful about this and make sure we make research on each bounty before we participate on them. Best of luck 👍

[Reen 1120]

Exactly my friend . There are many scam methods on the Internet. We should be very careful about this and make sure we make research on each bounty before we participate on them.So before using any bounties confirm about it completely. .Please be careful and save your income.

[pacific 2268]

Well there are a lot of fraud cases these days related to cryptocurrencies, and only some are highlighted and came in the news. These online frauds prevail mostly in the world of digital currency, as cheating people gets easier with anonymity and there's no particular way to track the fraudsters and these type of incidents are often found to be happening, and it has negatively impacted the field of cryptocurrencies.

[Whited35 15285]

Never attempt to participate in the so-called bounties if they start to ask users for money deposit from the very early steps. Some fake bounties have exactly copied the sites of some real projects. They might misuse your sensitive information so do not be greedy to participate in the random bounties. 

[JesusFries 1958]

12 hours ago, Whited35 said:

Never attempt to participate in the so-called bounties if they start to ask users for money deposit from the very early steps

That's true mate, you can see there that money is their purpose by making a scam projects/bounty campaigns. There's no bounties that you're obligate to give some money from them, you're just able to participate to help them to advertise their product and get paid from them.