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https://coinpaper.com/710/scam-alert-police-warn-of-fake-paper-crypto-wallets
"After scanning the code, the user is asked to click on the link to access the wallet with funds up to AUD 16,000. Next, they are prompted to pay the withdrawal fee and provide their crypto wallet credentials to be able to transfer the assets to their address. Once the victim sends the money and discloses the wallet details, their balance is emptied. New South Wales Police Force detailed the scheme in a post on Facebook."

Considering that it's only a targeted attack in some of the cities in Australia, I'm surprised they still haven't found the scammers in question after a very long time! I'm sure there are a lot of active cameras to connect the dots and figure out where they're hiding ^{[there might also be fingerprints that matches someone with a history]}.

Here are some of the websites that are connected to this specific type of scam ^{[unfortunately, the last two are still active]}:
^{- I haven't completely checked all of the sources (#1 (https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoScamReport/comments/wemzws/paper_wallet_found_in_the_streets_pretty_sure_its), #2 (https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/wuf2ke/scam_found_these_littered_around_my_suburb_in/), #3 (https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/wuf2ke/comment/il9lvv1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3), #4 (https://www.reddit.com/r/brisbane/comments/y2nd1b/bitcoin_scam_cbd/) and #5 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5408263.0)), so there might be more!}

• coinstampwallet.com
• deficode.online
• blockprint.online
• paymetic.online
• printkeywallet.com ^{[archived (http://web.archive.org/web/20221129143800/https://printkeywallet.com/)]}
• openchain.online ^{[archived (http://web.archive.org/web/20221129152226/https://openchain.online/)]}

Jesus, that's a pretty retarded scam.  Presumably the only people who would fall for it would be those who don't know much about crypto and probably wouldn't even know how to go about sending the "withdrawal fee".  Anyone who's been into crypto for a while and knows what they're doing would see this as an obvious scam.

I'm wondering if this made headlines just because the state of corruptitude in crypto is popular in the media right now.  Wouldn't doubt it.

People are making millions daily with this! Also drainers on eth addresses! OMG! People are doing crypto tutorials and leaking their private keys only to misslead new people to import their address into their trust wallet or whatever. Extremly easy scam!

Binance addresses given away in tutorials are being funded daily by people doing these kind of mistakes, if you want a clue of how phenomena works

I know this scam, and we even had real victims posting in bitcointalk forum several times.
When I suggested this should be reported to polive and authorites some members said police has better work to do than this, well obviously they don't.
I have zero trust in police that are just serving corrupt government officials, but it was right thing for Australian polive to warn people about this scam than became widespread.

Here is original topic posted by member easternklaas in Jully of this year, and it is related with this article:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5408263.0

in recent weeks, this scam via qr code has also been brought to light in Italy. I leave you an article from a national newspaper.https://www.repubblica.it/economia/diritti-e-consumi/diritti-consumatori/2022/11/06/news/la_truffa_parte_da_un_qr_code_e_la_nuova_frontiera_del_phishing-372415799/

unfortunately there is nothing that can be done in these cases.
no matter how much these scams are reported to the authorities there will always be someone who "bite" and get scammed.

lately I have received requests for support from people of "high culture and high incomes" who were convinced that they had won large fortunes. Unfortunately it is a "never ending story" :(

There are a lot of retarded scams in the world, such as financial pyramids and so on, but every year millions of people become victims of scammers.
I was looking for an answer to this question. Most of these people are in a very difficult financial situation, so they are ready to believe scammers and still take loans at the direction of scammers. Reminder will not be superfluous. This scam may appear in any other country.

That thread made for a fun investigation.  I encourage anyone with an hour to kill to read it, as it turned out to be an epic discussion of ethics, morality, buried treasure, and mushrooms.   It's too bad we couldn't convince easternklass to share more data from the "wallets" sooner, it may have prevented some from getting scammed.