UnionKey Fake Hardware Wallet - Phishing Site

[albon]

What happened:: The Newbie Member @UnionKey posted a topic about the UnionKey Hardware wallet, which does not exist on the website that he mentioned its link in his topic. In addition to the fact that the website has HTTP, the buttons for "Free Download the wallet" or "Go to store" and all other buttons on other pages on the official website do not work. [This indicates that this nonsense provides no products or services] And just HTML pages and a poor interface. In addition, there is no open-source wallet code on GitHub. All his phishing site contains is a button to connect the wallet. He also generated his topic using AI and translated it using Google Translate, where he published it on Arabic, 中文 (Chinese), and Deutsch (German) local boards.

Scammers Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3603884  | FLAG

Reference Link:

www[.]unionkey.net/home.html

| ARCHIVED

Domain Name: UNIONKEY.NET
Creation Date: October 31, 2023
Update Date: October 31, 2023
Expiration Date: October 31, 2024
Age: 88 days
Registrant Street: PO Box 786
Registrant City: Hayes
Registrant State/Province: Middlesex
Registrant Postal Code: UB3 9TR
SOURCE: https://www.domainiq.com/domain?unionkey.net#/whois

Additional Notes:
Stay away from this nonsense, guys.

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[hugeblack]

I replaced my neutral trust and it is now red, and trust flag has been supported.
I was hoping to see answers to some questions, but his continued posting his fake wallet that he wants to scam.

[dkbit98]

This was deleted when user was nuked so I am posting it again.
Old HTTP website in year 2024  
Maybe this is normal in China, but it's not normal in the rest of the world.
Bunch off error messages are popping out, spelling mistakes all over, site is mostly written in chinese, button to switch to English is not working for me... all I can see is some devices that look like a hardware wallet to $169.
Very sloppy work.

Archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240119201149/http://www.unionkey.net/

[Kavelj22]

I can confirm everything mentioned in the Op because I looked at the topics posted by the suspicious user in more than one section.
The website is mostly in Chinese or Japanese, and most of the links do not work, in addition to many sentences that appear to be spam and are not useful. Also, it is strange that the site does not use an SSL certificate and is content with unprotected browsing via http and not https as is known from any reliable site. The entire site does not look professional at all, and it seems as if it was designed by beginners or that someone tampered with the settings of one of the ready-made designs to make it look unique, but it seems that it did not work.

Also, requesting a connect to the MetaMask wallet seems to me a suspicious step, and on this basis I call on everyone to deal with extreme caution with this product, which does not provide any safety guarantees and has no reviews on the Internet. There are many secure hardware wallets on the market with more differential pfeatures, without the need to question their integrity. Anyone can use them and stay away from suspicious products.

[ScamViruS]

Good catch OP. You foiled this user's attempt by exopsing him, thereby saving many crypto users from falling into this scammer's trap. I visited this user's profile and found that all his posts have been deleted, since all his posts have been deleted it seems that the moderator has taken action against this user.

While crypto users are wary of other scams, scammers are using various tricks to scam crypto users through their wallets, and this fake wallet attempt is one of them.

[Yaunfitda]

Thanks to this, probably the scammer is taking advantage of the incoming bull run and trying to trap those newbies who think that having a hard ware wallet and then searching for something new like this one will safe them a lot of money. But in any case, they can lose everything. We might be wary of another attack from criminals and using the same tactic. But for sure, many senior members here will able to find it out and give us early warnings and then administrators taking action by nuking this kind of accounts. Maybe they will be sloppy, or maybe improved next time so that it's hard to detect initially.

[hugeblack]

UnionKey has returned with a new account after the old one was banned, please give it negative trust & report.
UnionKey claims that things are being fixed but still promises that the code is still closed source and some improvements to the interface.

Account URL ---> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3607351

1. Code not open-source; 2. Confusion between English and Chinese versions; 3. Risk associated with linking to MetaMask; 4. Incorrect redirection to GitHub links,
our development team has made adjustments and clarifications: 1. The code is currently being prepared for hardware wallet production, hence it's not open-sourced yet. However, you can view the source code of the web version. The app and browser wallet are also not open-sourced yet.

[dkbit98]

UnionKey has returned with a new account after the old one was banned, please give it negative trust & report.
UnionKey claims that things are being fixed but still promises that the code is still closed source and some improvements to the interface.

They could be genuinely making some type of hardware wallet, it's not that expensive to do it in China, and they claim it's 85% completed.
I would prefer for moderators to remove the link for their website instead of banning them two times, especially since scam is not moderated and we can't confirm this is a scam.
Anyway, I am monitoring situation with Unionkey outside this forum and I will report any news here.

[hugeblack]

They could be genuinely making some type of hardware wallet, it's not that expensive to do it in China, and they claim it's 85% completed.
I would prefer for moderators to remove the link for their website instead of banning them two times, especially since scam is not moderated and we can't confirm this is a scam.

I don't know what the reason for the ban is, but I don't think it's a scam. According to modlog.php, it seems that this topic is the reason:

Remove topic: UnionKey - Reshaping the Future of Cryptocurrency Secure Storage in topic #5482134 by member #3603884
Nuke user: N/A in topic #0 by member #3603884

It seems their site spreads viruses & Trojans or this topic ---> https://ninjastic.space/topic/5482134.0 is plagiarism