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What Happened: Today I noticed a Twitter page sharing Scam PawZone token Airdrop where they are asking to Connect Wallet through Wallet connect where there is no official airdrop ongoing from PawZone and it's purely a phishing Site. So it maybe risky if it gets viral, actually it's risky for a single user too. That's why I am sharing here so that you can be aware from it and always follow official announcements before joining any Airdrops and specially be safe when it asks you to connect your Wallet. Because many users have been hacked by connecting with these Scam Sites.

Scam Airdrop Link: https://etherseums-airdrop.org/PAW
Scam Airdrop Archive Link: https://archive.ph/JukkU
Fake Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/PawShibarum
Official Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/PawZoneToken

https://i.imgur.com/kXAyc1V.jpg

Here is the Screenshot of Scam PawZone token Airdrop Website with Connect Option.

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In this Photo you can see they are encouraging to Connect with this Phishing Site through WalletConnect and Coinbase. We all must be aware specially newcommers from any kinds of Crypto Scams.

I have never heard of PAW or the PawZone token, but it doesn't matter.
I browsed around a little and noticed the project is holding an official giveaway right now as part of their listing on a new exchange. The information is available on their Twitter feed > https://twitter.com/PawZoneToken/status/1643565743676739584.

Even before the latest listing, that token got listed on some other exchanges. The scammers are just trying to take advantage of the current situation to scam people out of their tokens. The fake site you mentioned in your OP is only 4 days old.

Because they are all brand new to us, these numerous new altcoin projects are also difficult to identify. Check out the fake Paw Zone twitter account, which has more followers than the real one. This is also common when airdrop hunters are not careful, I have seen telegram groups too with large numbers of members that can be mistaken as the real telegram. I do not like airdrops for this same reason. Additionally, there are assignments required and a considerable number of airdrops request that we connect to our wallets.

Unheard of this token, scammers will target any user even using an unknown token to scam people I am not active on these airdrops but what's the possibility that scammers are creating a token that will groom to look like a good token only to offer this scheme and scam people, they found a way to make users willingly to accept their plan to scam them by connecting their wallet, so this could be the kind of scheme worth watching and taking precautionary measures.

Thanks for the warning, but personally I rarely connect my wallet to get an Airdrop, because phishing sites are common for stealing wallets.

I don't know about PawZone Airdrop but there were phishing sites on ARB, ZKS airdrops, I found there warnings of a lot of phishing sites trying to phish subscribers who want to get these famous airdrops.

Unfortunately, most bounty hunters fall victim to phishing sites as a result of their greed for free coins.

In the past, the riskiest was investing in ICO not it has become airdrops because they compel you to connect your wallet to receive their airdrops, and it's not an airdrop anymore in a real sense you have to do a task and enter in their lottery and they will pick the top referrers to receive their useless token and sometimes they only pick 100 out of thousands of participants, they gained no cost marketing and they scam people.
Cryptocurrency is now so popular that bounty hunting and airdrops are saturated, so lucky to have seen the glory days of bounty hunting and airdrops, now everything is all different.
My advice is to stop doing these airdrops its useless and the tokens are worthless.

There is no limit of these Phishing sites because its very easy to create new one with just Sample domain and hosting service. Its better to do own research on each website before connecting wallet to any airdrop offering site.

One biggest problem with these Phishing site is promotion if these sites through google search. many times i searched for Arbitrum and other big names and i found phishing sites in the top. I wonder why Google and other social project isn't taking any serious notice of this. Due to the lack of strict laws, their posts are free and they are scamming newbies everyday