Crypto Scams of the Week: Blockchain[.]com, Trust Wallet
Author: Trend Micro
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It’s not just innocent investors making money from cryptocurrencies, but scammers too — $14 billion last year, to be precise. For our investor friends out there, it’s important to keep tabs on the scammers’ activities. With that in mind, the following are what we’ve found this week.
Blockchain[.]com
Blockchain was one of the first cryptocurrency financial services companies and is still hugely popular. Unfortunately, scammers are using the platform as a disguise for their email phishing attacks.
Phishing Email
Consumers have reported receiving emails like the above. Typically, the would-be victim is notified of an incoming payment. To access it, they are ‘required’ to follow the link that supposedly takes them to the log-in page of their crypto wallet. If they do so, however, they will be taken to a fake phishing page made to resemble Blockchains.
Fake: login[.]blokckchain[.]com/recover/index.php
Real: login[.]blockchain[.]com
Falling for this will mean your personal information being compromised, losing your money — even your identity being stolen. Don’t let them get away with it!
Trust Wallet
Trust Wallet is a popular crypto-wallet platform. Unsurprisingly, scammers are using this disguise for their activities. Users are receiving SMS text messages that claim there is some account-related issue – verification most commonly. The links included will lead to fake phishing pages where your personal information will be compromised.
Fake Log-in Page
Be on the lookout for SMS text messages that read like the following:
“-trustwallet- our system has shown that your wallet has not yet been verified. this verification can be done easily via : hxxps://verified-trustwallet[.]com/”.
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