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The SCAMMERS in the cryptocurrency world are not giving up on defrauding the unsuspecting investors of their hard earned money.

Since the introduction of IEO, SCAMMERS have diverted their efforts towards stealing the investors exchanges passwords.

They Create a cloned website of the exchanges, Contact you through a mail and attach the cloned website's shortened url for you not to suspect that you are entering a different websites to your real exchange.

The investors should be checking the website address of their exchange before they input their passwords into any exchange.

I don't know why those scammers won't rest till they defraud crypto enthusiasts.  Before signing into your exchange accounts in particular, cross check thoroughly to be sure you are not about to access a phishing site. The best is to bookmark all URL of your exchanges or use tools which detect phishing sites on your browser.

I think this is an old method that is often done by scammer, often it is also said that phishing and crime are not only sent in email, but in telegrams, other social media and anywhere. Therefore don't click on any links from unknown sources and and always bookmark every site that you visit often.

Fraudsters are becoming more creative these days and its best for us to observe best security practices in order not to become one of their victim. Additionally, you can find more relevant information here to further safeguard our systems and digital assets as well - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5140125.msg50997437#msg50997437 .

They won't, because they are criminals. That's why we really need to be careful out there. Make sure that we are in the right website before we enter our data otherwise your account is compromise. Sometimes common sense is the best weapons + educating ourselves to the dangers of phishing.

that's why we must be careful before clicking anything that will give us possibility in result loss our money caused by phishing or hacking, but these scammers are using various way to scam others just like some scammers are creating fake contract and create a buzzword if that was an official project that launch IEO from the big company like facebook and then they are spreading fake massage in all of the places to make others believe if they are real project but they are scammers.

It is easy to fall for such phising sites if you do not take time to check the url properly. I bookmark pages i use often to avoid confusion. Some exchanges are aware of this scam and make a security provision for that- all genuine message from them must always carry your UNIQUE ID chosen and only known by you. I think Kucoin does that.

I often get this notification scamer from Emial and their Telegram told us to click on the link to get money even though it is clearly a fraud, we must be careful.

I’ll add from myself that in addition to checking the website address, be sure to activate two-factor authentication. For all the actions that are possible: access to the site, withdrawal of funds, changing settings, and so on.

Thats how creative the thieves are in our time! these people are lazy and stupid by using the hardearned money of others to make a living for themselves shame on them. Its our own discreation on how to preserve and protect our hardearn money by just being vigilant in all times specially by engaging transaction avoid clicking unfamiliar website link who knows its just a phising link thats why you must double check it all the time to make it more safer.

Always be careful, especially by reading strange emails or dms on telegram. Scams are everywhere and before sending your funds, please assure that the project is legit to protect your money. Otherwise you will regret not spending some time for research before investing.

Unfortunately, no one is safe from scammers, but you can take some measures:

1. Add the exchange to your favorites and access only this link
2. If you trade in ethereum then you can use the metamask, it will warn about a phishing site.
3. Try to use decentralized exchanges such as bitshares
4. Use 2 factor authentication + confirmation by mail
5. And of course, the most important thing is to pay attention to the official pages of exchanges in social networks, they write about dos attacks and changed ip

As the IEO is growing and every investor wants to get more profit that's why scammers stealing the excahnge account,so every investor should careful about emails and exchanges clone websites.

You are right,this is why its always necessary to check the https// sign to confirm if the link is secured or not and secondly you have to check the website alphabetically e.g https://www.coinbase.com can be changed to http://www.coInbase.com,if you dont check it properly you will fall victim.

That's phishing if am not mistaken. In order to be safe,  I always login to exchanges via Coinmarketcap because that's where the correct website address is. Also, another way is checking the group or channel, take note of the admins and then check for the website which is mostly in the pinned message. But in all, going through Coinmarketcap is the best..

They will not giving up but they will more smarter. They just use their good ability to bad option. Spam from email is most favorite to steal our asset but if we are smart i think its not big problem. Be careful, crypto world really danger if we not taking care our asset and our privat file.

This is the biggest challenge for cryptocurrency. They are just killing the nice opportunities for their short term gain. Even regulatory board will have challenges to overcome this.

What you are talking about is just a small part of the scam tools. Now there are a huge number of methods of fraud in cryptocurrencies. We all need to be very careful not to become victims of scammers.

Have not experienced this before and my question is how do they know the investors and did they get their contacts?. I always advise people to be very careful of before they do any transaction on any website.

The crypto saviors fight against these scammers with informing and education the crypto investors with all possible ways. The phishing sites are commonly known tactics for stealing the exchange passwords from traders with cloning the same user interface of the specialized exchange. Bookmarking the exchange site will save investors from the pitfall sites.

Scammers keep using new and different methods to lure their vitcims, every cryptopreneur and investors must remain vigilant and be cautious about clicking links or download malwares both methods are the most rampant.

yes, this methode already exist from a long time ago,,
scammer will sent us a phissing link to our email,
so, everyone must know the sender before read or click any link on our email

I won't surprise to this kind activity of scammers. Because I am one of their so many victims. Yes you are right they are using fake email that the same of your campaign or project belong then they will inform you some updates and after that you will believe for their updates and most of the times they will giving bonus and start to ask your password and private keys. So keep safe and make your personal keys private

High rate of scammers is one of the banes of the crypto-currency industry, bad people want to rip off the income of unsuspecting crypto enthusiasts. People should be more careful these days, always scrutinize links before entering. Avoid storing your passwords and keys online.

Projects including individuals should desist from clicking on shortened Url links most times it's virus. I don't see the reason why an IEO exchange should contact a project with shortened Url link. Thank you for pointing this out everyone should be on alarm.

Projects including individuals should desist from clicking on shortened Url links most times it's virus. I don't see the reason why an IEO exchange should contact a project with shortened Url link. Thank you for pointing this out everyone should be on alarm.

This shit will never end, its not only in crypto space. as you know scammers with fishing sites exists much longer than crypto :/ only thing you can do is reporting this shit and be aware of every site you visit.

I actually think they are running out of ideas from the usual pms they send on Telegram asking one to help them withdraw some amount of bitcoin from a scam exchange. Now they register your email on a scam site and ask you to confirm registrations. The best and easiest remedy is to ignore any pm or mail from a strange party

Probably this is the power o scammers. Scamming people becomes their work, their efforts, and their income.
Actually, through IEO, it can really decrease the chance of scammers to deceive the investors because they should use the third party to work, that is an exchange. However, there is also still a small hole that they can take apart, that is by choosing the small exchange or not trusted one. That is why t is very important for us to be smarter when going to invest in the new project, analyze whether the exchange is trusted enough, analyze their team members, and other transactions.