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Few days ago Metamask announced development of new feature with the help of Opensea and Blockaid in order to help people not connect their wallets to known scams and lose all of their money that way. I am sure that people will still lose money this way, but I think that this feature will help to some degree. 

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https://twitter.com/MetaMask/status/1643702565140348929?t=72HVnQNG2zmRbCqlVM0Krw&s=19

This can be a big improvement from a wallet developer, at least Metamask will be more secured if ever.
I've read some news as well that Metamask are not allowing multiple IP address already, or this is just a rumor but this is only a restriction to a bounty hunter. If this new feature will be live, hopefully they can start to block hackers/scammers wallet though at least give them a chance of legitimacy since many might be affected by this even if they are a real wallet holder.

We still own the wallet and freely do what ever we want. It is still our fault if we get scammed and the maximum effort that metamask and other wallet can do is to provide warning just like what metamask did. I agree that this isn't a fully scam proof feature but at least we have this kind of feature that is offered to us to potentially avoid these scams. Newbies are the one who I think will mostly benefit this kind of feature as they don't really know much on how things works and they are the target victims of these scam projects.

This feature is great indeed.

Such features do not always protect users, because information becomes known after hacking. It is very difficult for those who are used to working on centralized exchanges to change their habits and force themselves to check every action and projects that their wallet interacts with.

Metamask coming up with a feature like this is a great one, which will help a few people a lot to some extent, but according to what they state, it will only help detect scam sites that have already been flagged, which means if the site is newly scam, they will still be unable to detect it as a scam, so what they are actually doing is blacklisting some sites, which they won't allow to connect into their database.

People who will misunderstand this might probably think every site that Metamask allows them to connect to after adding this feature is safe, and they will feel less of a concern than they should have, exposing themselves to more security risks than they could have ever been exposed to. It's a good thing to see that Old Metamask is still constantly working to safeguard their customers.

I find this also very useful, especially when used by newcomers to the electronics market, sometimes they have ignorant usage behaviors that lead to unnecessary losses.
Although to me the use of metamask is only seen as a small means, and the main mistakes are still their own, so blaming the support tools as many people have expressed in this market also needs to be reconsidered. Remember that it is we who make mistakes, but this new update of the metamask is also great.

It must be marked that if the wallet will be only detecting a known scam that is already written in the database but as long as the scammer is not even using an address related to the old address that is used for the scamming purpose and it still very hard to call it as a scam.
This feature is good enough but i wonder how fast the feature updates with the latest scam that discovered by people in the market. Let's see how effective that feature is. The accuracy actually depend on the what kind of scam that already reported and submitted to the database.

The good thing is if I think that if metamask is reliable enough to detect so many scams. The community must be so active to report any scam that is being discovered.
The hackers will always come up with new ways of scam others. I think that if the most important thing is never try to believe in someone who you didn't even know about him.

They still need to analysis the wallets to be marked as scam wallet/contracts.

If you're patient zero of the victim, there is nothing to do anymore still losing the money. This work, after so many transaction are scamming always to check and re-check again for a website/smart-contract you're connected.

Best advice is always with a fresh wallet, make a different with your main wallet.

Something is better than nothing so atleast thos feature will stop scams that is already exposed but this isn't a life saviour so as a user we should be cautious while connecting our wallets with other sites and even while making transactions that is why having multiple wallets can save you from loss like airdrop scams, dust attacks and like those.

As stated in the tweet it is indeed only prevents users from known scams, but I think it would significantly reduces the number of scam victims. Though, one question arises is how fast would those 3 projects will be able to analyze and confirm a scam or malicious contract, because that span on time will also affect the number of potential scammed users.

Anyway, this kind of feature is surely a good thing for users but as both of you said, it does not address one of the root causes which is the user itself that lacks securities concerns. Also, those scammers certainly won't stop improving, I'm sure they would try to find a way to bypass this prevention system.

Metamask is becoming more and more feature-rich, transforming itself from a wallet into a multitasking machine. The question is whether this wallet will remain as secure as before or if hackers will have more opportunities to find vulnerabilities. Of course, I understand that the developers want to make their brainchild into something more than just a wallet, additionally attracting more and more attention to metamask, but nevertheless, I began to have more doubts that it will work perfectly and there will not be some data leakage.

Finally some amazing feature by a wallet. I think this is possible due to connectedness of MetaMask to World Wide Web via its browser extension. The permission grants access to data that is being surfed, the site info and certificate access. This might be making it easier for MetaMask to join the force with opensea and blockaid.

This sort of improvement may not be possible with the bitcoin wallet. If they do it then they will have to kee marking all the generated addresses which is tedious task with decentralised management.

MetaMask might be getting upper hand there as well. Great feature.

I think this is a good step in the right direction, most people have lost money because of these scam links and once you click it and it gains access to your account they drain everything and even anything you sent to this address later. People have been asking the MetaMask team to do more in this direction, though this won't eradicate scams but will surely help reduce scam incidence where people lose money to these scam links

This will only work when the scam is already known as what you can read from their post. If you ever connect to a platform or website that is a scam that is not known yet then you won't get that notification or warning message when interacting with the site. It is a good step by metamask since you will get warned that it might be a scam site that you haven't know yet and metamask have it in their data or list of scam sites or a suspicious website.

That's actually good if there will be another layer of protection that they'll add as a feature.

But you know what these hackers will still do something with it and will be able to reverse unless they won't announce the source codes of it so that these hackers won't have that idea.

Still, that will be a piece of cake from these hackers as they're very skilled and sadly, what we must do is to be more cautious and spread knowledge on how to avoid being phished or hacked.

yes i just opened my metamask , i saw that screen , this is better i think because more and more scams with fake links are increasing day by day . hopefully with this there will be less and less people experiencing losses from fake links
very good development from metamask, but this is not only our wallet will be 100% safe from thieves always keep your funds in a private wallet that is not to be connected to other sites

I mean i love metamask and people don't remember what hell it was to use early versions of MEW compared how smooth you can connect with metamask.

And that said, why it took them 5 years to implement something like this? I totally understande that we don't owe them anything, and i might seem like self entitled annoying user when i even ask this as i haven't done anything for them. But 5 years of scams is a long time to figure out what could be done. One would think that security of the non tech savvy users would be high on the priority list.

The last time I checked they planned to announce when it is safe after working with Opensea and Blockaid, but we haven't heard from them. Most online platforms that delegate their security to another company do not have my trust. While Metamask has been more aware of the need to enhance wallet security this year, they have not made significant progress in that area.

Community is still playing the vital role in this case. Without community and the list of scam will not evne increase as it needs to be added manually by reporting the known scam to the group. It's good but it's not so useful for us. When scammers will always change the address and it will not able to detect it. it's hard to say that this feature is good. Due diligence by any crypto user is a must

they should've implemented such thing from the early days, but at least the fact that it has gotten implemented right now is already good enough, so many newbies are getting scammed through fake smart contract and so called dapps, that there are so many money gets wasted. I'd say, it's such huge help coming from metamask for the general newbie out there.

unfortunately if it's just some warning like this many are still gonna gets scammed, trust me, some people gets scammed not because they are fool but because they are getting blinded by their greed, even if it seems risky and could cause them incur money loss, they will try it anyway because they are greedy.
metamask should just block wallet from interacting with the list of scam contract completely.

Well obviously. That's basically one of the features of crypto. Self custody. Not everyone can or should do it as some people are not going to be able to handle their finances. Claiming otherwise would be ableism. The fact is that some people will always need someone more or less to look after them and those people need extra security unless they want to get scammed. It's basically same argument that is in big vs small government.

This is a great development to combat fraud and scams that exploit the cryptocurrency community.  This is a huge help for uninformed users to detect and prevent them from connecting their metamask to phishing and malware-injecting sites.  


It is obvious that these scams and fraud sites are reported by the community.  Without the participation of the community, these scam sites will not be exposed.  Sadly it needs other people to lose funds before knowing the sites to be fraud or scams.

Finally such prevention has come, it's just mad that so many scams impersonating dapps stealing money through complicated means which abstract itself from becoming too obvious and they're successful at it, it needs to stop eventually.
Even though many have stated that such thing might be just futile attempt but regardless at least there's still warning that could just prevent some from making the transaction.
It's just made these days that to just use some smart contract we should be looking out for the fake version for it, even worse if we forget in revoking the permission of using the ERC20 it's gonna get stolen eventually.
It seems metamask team has finally realize that such thing is so rampant and this need immediate prevention.

There must be a reason why they did not do it, maybe they did not had the resources to do so or maybe it was a matter of ideology, in which they preferred to let their customers do as they wished without given them any kind of warning, but as the number of scammers has increased during the previous years then they found themselves on the obligation to do a move like this to protect the ones using their wallet or they risked losing them to other wallet providers.

To be honest I'm very impressed with the current developments in Metamask, because apart from the security features you mentioned, Metamask also has many new features such as swap and britge. I think in the near future there will be a lot of development by the metamask team.

We will have to wait and see how effective this feature actually is. It wont save everyone of course but I think that it will still be very helpful.




This feature is probably not even needed for bitcoin wallets because you cant connect those to suspicious websites and lose your money that way as thats how majority of people lose money with Metamask.

The developers of Metamask have done a good job, and we should applaud them for it. With the implementation of this feature, if we connect to an insecure link, we will receive a warning and our wallet will remain secure. If such features are implemented in other wallets as well, it will be a significant achievement for the crypto community but we should also be careful while connecting the wallets to unknown links.

This is good, too many people who do not know how they should use their Metamask ended up connecting them to wrong places and ended up losing their money. This way it is at least a bit lesser chance to get it hacked like that, there are so many places that could steal from you and the lower you can get that number the better, because there are too many people who would fall for each of them, banning even few would be awesome.

These are for known scams at least, and that means there would be a lot of websites who can't continue to keep scamming people, I am pretty sure there would be some extra idiots who would override to reach in there, which would be realistic considering how many idiots are out there in the world.

Indeed, unfortunately, there is a lack of information that thoroughly explains how this scam detection feature works, which makes it hard to get a grasp of its potency.

I have tried to look around about signature farming and wallet draining behaviour that is managed by Blockaid, it seems that OpenSea has already those kinds of systems in place(https://opensea.io/blog/articles/our-efforts-to-prevent-nft-theft). So it is rather vague about what are the differences between the OpenSea system and Blockaid's analysis system. One thing that looks promising is that there is automation of interaction or transaction simulation taking place, which if we looked upon it on the surface, that could potentially reduce scam smart contact massively.

Seems more useful for airdrop participants when connecting metamask account with new wallet or new dapp, I have been used metamask for longer time and new feature will help us to know with scam connecting site and have risk. Still not found with risk connecting maybe with all my metamask connection seems secure and don't get like the picture sending by OP.

Feature detected with scam site by connecting metamask will help many people and warning when signing approving activities help us in faster moment to know about site secure or not.

This is indeed a good update and a big game changer, imagine being tagged as a scam wallet and freezes your crypto this can save a lot of users from falling into a fake wallet. What will happen though if your wallet being tagged as a scam? Are they going to release the crypto or seize it and airdrop it to the public?

No clear details on how they are going to this, though they should surrender the money into somewhere because it should not be their source of income, maybe they can return it to a legitimate victim of that scammer wallet, but doing this will require another work. Let’s see if Metamask is already prepared for this scenario, its good to be more secured though.

Interesting news. Didn't hear about it. Need to know more about this. What you are discussing is a really interesting option. I think it will be very useful for users

Metamask user here. Pancakeswap has been safe for me to use.
I found ASH token on pancakeswap which is a recently new token that has rebounded from the last bear market. Since December is has steady growth of over 300%. Currently it's pretty evenly distributed over 1600 wallets and growing.. This isn't your typical token, it has a liquidity pool that builds with each transaction due in part to a transaction fee. Token holders get a vote on which projects this pool funds. Checkout there website ashtoken.io the incentive is in holding because 5% of that transacting fee goes back to wallet holders. Amazing concept that is going to continue to boost this token.

Beware of SCAMS and don't connect your wallet to a nontrusted website. Research all alt coins and trading platforms before connecting.

metamask has grown really fast over the course of the year, they're like the pioneer, this one steps they take to ensure the security of their users funds, definitely a good move.
after all not everyone have the knowledge to not get scammed, considering many scams attempts nowadays has become rampant, many are having their hard time differentiating between the scams and the real because of complexity from using dapps, I think if metamask gonna refine this feature over time it would be great and will keep many from losing money.

Welp, this is better than nothing you know, but to me it's just like that anti-virus thing where they have a bunch of list of potentially dangerous apps trying to invade your computer. This is a great start and a better development and I hope this will grow more in the future to help investors choose the right investment without losing too much from a scam token. Aly, it's not that really perfect to avoid scam tokens since most of them are just starting, so a scam potential token will be detected only if someone put it on the watchlist.

this update can really help newbies to avoid fraudulent sites and I've updated my metamask now, many features are helpful and can be used whether it's to detect sites marked fraud even dangerous contract addresses, so far I'm more interested in using metamask than wallet other crypto browsers because it's easier to make transactions and connect to any crypto site.

Well this update really helpful to anyone whose been using metamask. A prompt like this could avoid potential threats on some dapps that could have been made by scammers. Since we arent sure if we are connecting to a right and legit dapps.

I didnt recognize such dialogue box yet means Im safe for some dapps that are harmful to a wallet.

I don't know about that problem. this is just my opinion, wallets marked as fraud will be frozen and no one can access the wallet and will be published as a fraud wallet so that no one will be scammed again. again this is just my opinion let's wait for more updates.

Metamask includes upgrades that are sufficient for further security in order to reduce losses from its use, but all of this is solely our fault because we are careless when we wish to conduct transactions. However, with a function like that, it can be simpler for us to receive a warning before visiting a questionable investing application or website, thus I am quite pleased with the upgrade.

Wow, it's really great news. I think we need more of these things. We need more parties who care about the security of investing in crypto, since security is one if not the most important thing. Even if it won't handle the scam issue, at least it can educate people and minimize the risk. Each day, scams and trials are coming like mushrooms on rainy days, and efforts like this from big players in the crypto world would be much appreciated. We've been exposed to many scams almost every day, and it's really worrisome. No doubt this kind of move could help.

A good move from the metamask wallet and hopefully when the user gets a warning like that it will follow what is shown because sometimes what makes the user lose coins is ignoring the notification because they think it's a system error especially if the step is to take a coin airdrop, so actually the good intentions of metamask must also be followed by the awareness of its users for security.

The new Metamask feature you mentioned could be useful in protecting users from blockchain fraud. The feature allows the user to check if the wallet they are about to use is on the list of known fraudulent wallets. If the wallet is on this list, then this may indicate that its owner may be trying to deceive users.
But as you rightly point out, despite this feature, people can still get scammed and lose their money. Therefore, it is very important to be careful and vigilant when dealing with cryptocurrencies, using only verified and reliable sources of information and wallets.

We that are not new in here can now easily detect scams but we are still happy with the implementation made by Metamask because it helps newbies to possibly prevent being scammed. Gone are the days that when a newbie gets scammed, they will then blame all crypto and never go back here. Worse is they also warn the other people that they know to not engage here. That kills the adoption.

It's kind a late for Metamask to think of the idea but I guess this is better than nothing at all because at least they try and we know that they are concern. I just hope that other wallet providers will follow it and made their own versions too on how can we prevent crypto scams.

This will be very helpful, we can see that currently there are very many Daaps scam sites and some have trapped thousands of users and lost their assets. Metamask provides a very useful feature, unconsciously metamask will warn us when trying to connect a wallet with a scam site. But conscious vigilance must still exist, manually check the site to be visited and connected to the wallet, that will be the first rule that must be carried out to make it safer.

now there are a lot of scammers who can hack a wallet from which you can steal a lot of your savings, so you need to monitor your data a lot and nowhere to give your keys, scammers are now very active in this regard and, as for me, there is not enough protection from wallet developers

I wonder why a dapps don't have a signature that we can try to verify if the site is legit or not, just like in Bitcoin non custodial wallet. This can prevent any people to not get scammed, as long as the site doesn't get hacked. Many altcoins project mostly ask the user to trust the project rather than giving a choice to the user to prove if it's legit or not. I think it's not that hard to implemented since we can also sign a message from ETH address.

Its about time. This overhaul of security features was long overdue. You can also check out walletGuard. This is a project a friend of mine is involved in personally. Pretty cool free plugin i think is only on chrome however.

From what I understand the feature is still in its experimental stage and it's only available on Ethereum mainnet, and it's accessible via both desktop computers and mobile phones. The feature looks cool and it's designed against airdrop scams and I hope they can make it available in other chains.

That is definitely a very useful feature, even though it obviously only works with addresses and sites that are already confirmed as a scam. Still, a lot of people don't have the time to always stay up to date with the latest news about the new scams and hacks in the crypto space, that are basically happening each and every day. So this feature will definitely protect those people from getting hacked.
In the recent days and weeks i heard from a lot of people that they have switched to other wallets for example rabby wallet, because they are easier to use and more smooth and stuff like that. So it definitely is important that metamask keeps improving in order to not lose their top spot.

The main protection is from knowing yourself that this system will remain vulnerable. Every scammer has their own methods and new ones are always coming up. Scammers are indeed very active and are constantly looking for their victims to get lots of benefits. I even use a hardware wallet that is never connected to any dapp and that's only for long term assets.

Actually the safety and security of our wallets is in our own hands how to take good care of them.  this time metamask provides support to further warn us to review or rethink if we want to connect the wallet. with that, we have a kind of alarm warning us that doing so is dangerous and can be detrimental. hopefully other crypto wallet platforms can implement the same program or can be better than this

We need a lot of this development because scams are becoming "unbearable" in altcoin, my wallet is filled with hundreds of these "shitcoin" scams.

I'm glad to see this new feature which will be very useful protects the user in minimum large numbers of known scam coins.

I knew some wallet like metamask really need to up their game in term of detecting scams because there has been so many cases of someone got their wallet drained to the point that they are losing so much money just because they recklessly interacted with some smart contract hoping to get some airdrop out of it, or maybe even mint NFT for free yet it allows the spending of their token through those smart contract which is ridiculous.

The other chains have to respond to this development. When the detection of scams isn't really their thing but they have to when a lot of reports swarming them about scam projects that are going through with ETH and other supported chains. I think from here, there will be followed up developments and this gives the idea to the other developers that are also working with the others so that means, it's a very welcoming development and at the same time a very helpful feature that's going to give everyone the benefit to detect scam coins and will benefit a lot for those who's always into various tokens.

Can they do that? Because this is really dangerous, there is a big difference between tagging the owner of a wallet or an address as a potential scammer and having their coins frozen, this feature could easily be abused either by the ones implementing it or by malicious people which may argue they were scammed when it was not the case and get the wallet of an innocent person tagged and frozen, so we need to think about this twice as wallets providers are becoming more and more like banks, and I doubt this is something which will benefit us as a community.

NFTs games are overhype and have led many people becoming victims of scams. People with no knowledge to understand the risks management involved in the space, will experience heavy losses on their way to investing in projects. NFTs scams are numerous online, acknowledge the fact that scams do exists in all sections of cryptocurrency. I apply preventive measures before taking any steps, because I've suffered heavy losses in the hands of these fraudulent activities and would never invest in project I know absolutely nothing about.

This might not be big for veteran users because just one look at the site they know that the site is a scam. But for newbies, this is helpful because the way it pops up they will automatically be aware of the situations and they will quickly avoid those sites that are scams. These are really the updates we need from other wallets as well and from this, I'm sure there will also be lots of updates regarding this one prioritizing their user's safety is really what they need so that they will gain more users in the future.

First of all, there are so many websites and projects that want to steal your money, even if it's not a rugpull, even if they make a legit website, eventually we all know that it will end and it will not exists any longer. I personally know that it's going to hurt a lot of people and it should not really be a big deal.

I personally think that if you are investing into something that you are not certain about the website, you are already making a mistake and you should avoid that. Tons of people do that, they are looking at brand new stuff and end up losing money because they fall for the trap. These days most project devs just want to make money for themselves and not really see the project success as a priority.

Thousands upon thousands of coins have been released on this market over the years and besides bitcoin which coin was released without any premine or sale of coins for an overpriced price? Personally I am not aware of a single coin which did this, maybe this happened on the early days when the first altcoins were released, but since then the people behind those coins have cared about nothing else but the money they can earn out of the naive investors which decide to give them their money.

This can be nice if the feature goes live since many of our friends lose their money causing many scammers to use a fake website to get their target wallet. I hope this can available globally and for many devices and we also need to increase our awareness from the fake website don't let something bad happen twice with our metamask wallet.

This feature is already live but it will help only for known scams so if you connect Metamask to unknown scam that hasnt been reported before by anyone, you wont get any warning message and you might end up getting scammed.

There is no feature that is 100% bulletproof so you should always be very careful where you connect your wallet.

If that's the case then there's still a chance for scammers to attack Metamask users because they can easily create new sites once their scam sites have been reported. There were already lots of phishing activities on Metamask and to make it 100% safer for us, we should be the ones to avoid phishing sites by being wise and observant before clicking. However, their added feature is somehow helpful to lessen the number of scams on the site but we should also be responsible to do our part.

If you say like this, it's mean Bitcoin isn't trusted and this forum also not trusted too because these projects will end :D

I don't think it's not a big deal when you have invested your money on there, it's not about the amount you have invested, but it's about the trustworthy the project is. I still think there are few legit projects which really focus about the real use case than the making money purpose.

It is not perfect but it is better than nothing, after all there are many people which do not take the time to look into the most recent scams and they can lose their money against a known scam which was outed months ago, so it has its uses, however as the majority of us knows already the best and the last line of defense are ourselves, unfortunately there are some people out there which do not take this role seriously and that is why they get scammed so often.