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What happened: Fake ETHEREUM staking website

Website:
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Archived: https://archive.is/iIfNw

This is obvious a fake site, do not fall for this trap, and since we heard that ETH 2.0 genesis has started, criminals are going to take advantage of this.

Yep, now with staking and ETH 2.0 coming soon this was expected. Scammers copy even shitcoin projects, let alone something as popular and known as Ethereum is. When I heard the news about ETh 2.0 the other day, I asked myself when will they start with fake sites, and here it is, and there will be much much more in the coming weeks. Worst of all, many people will fall for this, even though it looks obviously fake.

Anyway, good find OP, If it stopped even one  person from loosing money by  sending ETH to these scammers, it was  worth it.

Right, and it's obvious that ETH has somewhat a second wind as it breaks through $400 barrier when this news comes out. This is a very good catch, bad for criminals as we can report this site so that it will be taken down without someone losing their ETH here. Reported it to Google phishing site.

I do hope none could be victimized of this fake ethereum staking website especially the value that will be deposited is so high 32eth is not a joke. Once you deposited it on a scam one like this, I cant even express myself how lonely will I have and depression.

Thanks for sharing this mate. Hope those who are hooked with eth 2.0 staking will be vigilant of this cause seriously its not funny when you fall on this kind of trap.

Good job on reporting mate. Hope this will turn down soon.

I don't know what to say if someone is that crazy to send coins to this website promising unreal 23% APR for staking.
Can someone identify what address are they using for receiving coin?

It's interesting that they are using ethereum.org terms of service and links and that should also be reported.

People who are falling to this are misinformed and not knowledgeable on what's happening in Ethereum, it's not yet launch the staking feature are still coming soon and you need 32 Ethereum to stake, there is no way they change the rule on how Ethereum staking should be implemented

Everything are explained here :

Ethereum 2.0 Staking, Explained  (https://cointelegraph.com/explained/ethereum-20-staking-explained)

Well, since people believe that much bigger returns are possible and they send their crypto to various ponesi schemes, I wouldn't be surprised if many fall for the this as it looks more realistic that those 1% daily scams.


I agree, this attempt isn't the worst I've seen lately, they went to some length to appear legit.


While it's true that you need 32 ETH in order to stake, but AFAIK that's for being a validator. Most likely there will be public pools where people with less than 32 ETH will be able to join and get some profit so I guess these scammers are aiming for those people.

Another group of scammers who are trying to make ETH users fool by taking the advantage of Ethereum 2.0 announcement. Recently the word "Stake" got so popular due to DeFi Hyip and to get DeFI hunters attention they are using a domain like this.

Its nothing new and scammers usually launch their fake projects after getting new events announcement from established projects. Its not like that they only follow projects upcoming events like ethereum, Tron, Litecoin where their only intention is to take the advantage of any well established projects new announcement.

We have seen many projects like this one who specifically targeted the user of exchanges, wallets and established tokens in the past. No one can stop them from doing this where site visitors will have to take his decision after visiting a fake one like this.

Yeah it seems true those who don't know the truth and don't really understand about the ethereum at stake whether this has been launched or not, if that interest is in the group and I'm sure they will collect 32ETH to bet and the results will be like average, wow if someone is like this they will regret it for the rest of their life because it is wrong with a phishing site.

I think this site just started 2  days being looked at in the domain so I don't think there's a victim in this trap yet.

I hope that there will be no victims here. This is very attractive for newbies who will blindly trust anything right now to make a huge profit specially that there are a lot of noise on ETH 2.0 and the whole staking paradigm. So again, these scammers are taking advantage on everything that is hype and popular specially in the altcoin market. That's why we really need to make ourselves aware of this kind of attempts and investigate and let ourselves educate, check everything before we took the dive on any staking.

I'm sorry I don't want to gamble and connect to Metamask to identify the receiving address.


I hope so, and I also wish that maybe noobs and not so noobs will read this post if ever they see this scam websites and not invest their 32 ETH.


Thank you for helping out to report this malicious site.

Thank you for helping

The good thing is that Avast antivirus is already blocking the site as a phishing threat. I hope this is the case with other antivirus and antimalware tools as well.

Good find, @TravelMug.