What happened:: The Newbie Member @UnionKey posted a topic about the UnionKey Hardware wallet, which does not exist on the website that he mentioned its link in his topic. In addition to the fact that the website has HTTP, the buttons for "Free Download the wallet" or "Go to store" and all other buttons on other pages on the official website do not work. [This indicates that this nonsense provides no products or services] And just HTML pages and a poor interface. In addition, there is no open-source wallet code on GitHub. All his phishing site contains is a button to connect the wallet. He also generated his topic using AI and translated it using Google Translate, where he published it on Arabic, 中文 (Chinese), and Deutsch (German) local boards.

Scammers Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3603884  | FLAG

Reference Link: | ARCHIVED

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Additional Notes:
Stay away from this nonsense, guys.

Perhaps Phemedrone is the latest malicious program developed on GitHub by some hackers, and I heard about it a few days ago, as what I knew is that it steals data and details from the person's device, as well as their most-used applications, wallets, and browsers, in addition to screenshots that make the victim completely stripped of his privacy and threatened to lose his stored crypto assets, but this malware is like the rest of the other malwares, and in fact, the Windows system is an unprotected system that is full of vulnerabilities, making it easy to be hacked if the person neglects to intensify protection and security on his device and this can happen if they download malicious programs or files, or open links from unknown sources, especially through strangers on Discord, Telegram, etc.

One must be careful because hackers renew their methods every day and develop malicious programs to inflict theft and harm to crypto investors.

Everyone strives and wishes to acquire large amounts of Bitcoin, and there are those who set a specific target for the appropriate quantity, which depends on the amount of money they spend from their capital for investment. There are those who believe that owning one Bitcoin is sufficient, there are those who see 0.1 as an appropriate amount, and there are those who constantly increase their holdings without a target or defined quantity. For me, I see that always striving to increase my Bitcoin holdings is a good thing until one obtains a large surplus. Bitcoin is the currency of the future and one of the best safe and profitable investments. Even if the value of Bitcoin temporarily decreases at some point, this is normal due to the inherent volatility of the crypto market. However, capital management and thoughtful investments are important to avoid selling accumulated holdings in case of emergencies in the long run.

So, yes, let's continue collecting and accumulating as Bitcoin becomes more ideal with decreasing supply and increasing demand, leading to a higher price.

It is not essential to convince them to accept their point of view resulting from their lack of knowledge and belief in Bitcoin and virtual assets. Their responses are natural since many older adults believe in only tangible and visible things, which they think are the most profitable. They need a lot of time to get to know Bitcoin, understand its investment well, and learn how much profit Bitcoin can achieve and how much it has achieved since previous years. Therefore, since you are involved in the field of crypto and are aware and believe in the future of Bitcoin, you can rely on your personal decision to invest part of the amount that your father sends to the family in Bitcoin, as it is the best of all these investments from my point of view. The person must invest in the field where he has experience and knowledge of all the risks it carries, as each person has his own decision and vision.

حياك الله، نعم هذا صحيح أخي،،

المعرفة والأبحاث الكافية لان في حقل خاص براس البريد الالكتروني للرسالة الواردة من" ياتي البريد نفس البريد الاصلي للشركة، ربما يكون محتوي البريد هو الذي من الممكن ان يدعوا للشك ان قاموا بوضع الرابط التصيدي علي الصورة المرفقة في الرسالة المخادعة او قيمة الايردروب الذي سيتلقاه الشخص إن قام بالمشاركة، الجدير بالذكر انهم يستخدمون الذكاء الإصطناعي والتقنيات الاخري لجعل محتوي الرسالة مشابه تماماً لرسائل الشركة الرسمية، والاخطر ان رسائلهم تتلاقها في البريد الوارد، ولربما يضعون بدلاً من الروابط التصيدية ملفات خبيثة ونحوه من اشياء من الممكن تحميلها.

لكن المنطق كما ذكرت والخبرة هي ما تجعلان الشخص حتي وان فتح الرابط التصيدي عن طريق الخطأ، سوف يعرف بأن هناك شئ ما خاطئ ويتراجع، وايضاً تفعيل الاشعارات للحسابات الرسمية للمنصات التي تتابعها علي سوشيال ميديا والقنوات التي تنشر الاخبار الحديثة التي تتعلق بالكريبتو و الحسابات التي تكشف عن الاحتيال سيكون هذا  احتراز امني جيد.


تحديث:

حدث نفس الامر الآن مع شركة تريزور للمحافظ الباردة، حيث قام المحتال بإرسال رسالة مشبوهة لإنتحال صفة شركة تريزور في الإيقاع بعملائها، بإستخدام بريدهم الالكتروني التالي:  "noreply@trezor.io" وكان عنوان الرسالة : "الاصول قيد الترقية" ، ويعود هذا الاختراق نتيجة لمزود خدمة البريد الإلكتروني الطرف الثالث،

قامت تريزور بنشر تحديث يفيد بأنهم تمكنوا من ايقاف التهديد الذي حدث، من خلال الغاء تنشيط الرابط الضار المذكور في محتوي الرسالة البريدية، ونشروا لعملائهم، انهم اذا لم يقوموا بوصع عباراتهم السرية للإسترداد المكونة من ١٢ إلي ٢٤ كلمة سرية، فهو في مأمن، اما اذا قدموها عبر نموذج الرابط الضار فعليهم فتح المحفظة ونقل اموالهم سريعاً منها، وذكروا انه علي حد علمهم فقد تمكن المحتال من الوصول الغير مصرح به لقاعدة البيانات التي تحتوي علي عناوين البريد الالكتروني للمشتركين في النشرة الإخبارية من عملائهم وارسل المتسلل هذه الرسالة الخبيثة باستخدم الدومين الخاص بهم من خلال خدمة البريد الالكتروني التابهة لجهه خارجية التي يستخدمونها.


المصدر: https://twitter.com/Trezor/status/1750223673506558146

It will not become a reality, and one should not invest based on rumors and FOMO. It's worth noting that there are no confirmations or reliable sources that have verified the claims regarding Saudi Arabia and the wealthy oil-rich Gulf countries. A Bitcoin enthusiast on X mentioned this rumor as speculation and has quickly spread on social media and news blogs. Now, Several YouTubers have capitalized on this rumor to create videos and generate views.. It is not logical for Saudi Arabia and Qatar to invest $500 billion in Bitcoin, which would constitute approximately 5% of the total circulating supply of Bitcoin, surpassing Wall Street and many other reasons mentioned here. The goal of these people who help spread rumors is to influence the price of Bitcoin through beginners who may believe and invest based on the information presented to them, and the other goal of spreading such rumors is to achieve fame and money.

No one regrets selling his Bitcoin holding in the early years, even if he remained a Bitcoin holder until one of his ATH times, and indeed, Bitcoin prices from 2011-2013 were golden investment opportunities. Still, there are requirements and life circumstances that differ from person to person that may force him to decide on a sudden sale without his desire. Each of us has his own life and the necessary supplies to continue life. Indeed, whoever has been able to hold Bitcoin without selling large quantities of it until now is a fortunate person, or perhaps he has an additional source of income sufficient to pay for all of his life’s affairs without touching a single piece of Bitcoin in the long term.

Naturally, no one knew that Bitcoin would have achieved all these successes now. The vision of its future was almost blurry in the past, and the people who spread negativity and FUD were more than the positive ones. Indeed, the consequences of not making these purchases would have been dire, but the good thing is that Bitcoin is not devoid of opportunities, even if its price seems high now. Let us say goodbye to regret and thank the past for the lessons learned from it.

LOL, it's really funny! The gullible scammers think people will believe them through a photoshopped screenshot.

I checked the link that this scammer sent, and indeed, this is a Ponzi scheme. This is evident from the following screenshot: the investment plans they prepared on the site and the profits the investor will receive within 24 hours and up to 96 hours in the last plan. Of course, this is a well-known and old scam scheme, and anyone falling for it lacks experience in this field.

^Archieved

In addition to your advice, I can also add that it is important to stay away from this platform and from strangers, especially on Telegram, X, and Discord. You will often encounter such unknown people who initiate conversations with you and, in the end, try to lure you into one of the traps they have set up.

أسعد الله أوقاتكم بكل خير،

وجب التحذير بأن عناوين البريد الإلكتروني الرسمية لعدد من شركات الكريبتو الشهيرة والمنصات الإخبارية تم استغلالها من قبل المحتالين مثلا De.Fi و Token Terminal و WalletConnet والمنصة الشهيرة للأخبار Cointelegraph وقبل قليل بقسم الإحتيال بالمنتدى شاهدت موضوع حول استخدامهم ايضاً للإيميل الرسمى لPatreon حيث تمكن المحتالون من استخدام البريد الإلكتروني الرسمي لهذه الشركات وأرسلوا الروابط التصيدية للمستخدمين.

ما تم ذكره في المقال الذي قرأته منذ قليل أنهم لم يتمكنوا من تحديد السبب الرئيسي الذي جعل هؤلاء المحتالون يستخدمون الايميلات الرسمية الصادرة عن هذه الشركات.

لكن هم ذكروا بعض الأساليب التي يعتقدون أنهم من الممكن استخدموها في تقنيات القرصنة المتعددة. ألا وهي (يعود إلى اختراق سيرفرات وخوادم البريد الإلكتروني لهذه الشركات أو تهكير موظفيهم من خلال البرامج والتروجونات الخبيثة لكي يتمكنوا من استخدام ايميلاتهم الرسمية وقد يعود إلى خرق أمني حدث لمزود خدمة البريد الالكترونى التابعون لجهات خارجية التي تعاقدت معهم هذه الشركات ، أو يمكن من خلال انتحال البريد الإلكتروني الرسمي من حيث يقومون بتزوير رأس البريد وتغير حقل (From/ من) لتقليد الايميلات الرسمية لهذه المنصات والشركات)


وقد حذرت هذه الشركات من هذا الأمر وسوف أضع لكم الروابط في المصادر بالأسفل لتطلعوا عليها.


الآن ربما تكون الحلول وهو عدم الثقة المطلقة فى عناوين البريد الإلكتروني للمرسل الذي استلمت منهم الرسالة لأنه ربما يبدو شرعيين, والأهم من هذا هو ان لا تنقر على أي روابط يتم توجيهك إليها من خلال محتوى الرسالة الخادعة وهم فالأغلب سيعضون رابط تصديى لإيردروب لكي تقوم بتوصيل محفظتك من خلاله، فالأفضل هو أن أن تقوم بالضغط بأيمن الفأرة على الرابط الذي دمجوه للنص أو تتعرف على الرابط الذي ستقوم بفتحه أن وضعوه على الصورة المرفقة في الرسالة وتقوم بأبحاثك الخاصة وعدم التسرع بتاتاً حين فتح اى من رسائل البريد لانها ستصل إليك فى مجلد البريد الوارد وليس فى الإسبام/البريد العشوائى او تجاهل فتح أى روابط مباشرة من بريدك الإلكترونى ومن ثم توجه الى الرابط الرسمية للمنصة او الشركة التى ترغب فى الاطلاع عليها.

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المصادر:
[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/community/articles/65afd21750a9b65042b7b024/
[2] تقرير كوينجراف وإخلاء المسؤلية: https://cointelegraph.com/news/coordinated-crypto-investor-phishing-campaign-email-alert
[3] تقرير وتحذير واليت كونيكت: https://twitter.com/WalletConnect/status/1749734325287858597

Now, they have used Patreon's email to send deceptive phishing messages. OMG!  

I read an article a while ago and will provide the source link below to check it. It indicates that the email addresses of WalletConnect, Token Terminal, and news providers like Cointelegraph and De.Fi also has scammers use a method to send phishing messages to users through them. What I understood is that the methods leading to this may involve a security breach of third-party email service providers that these companies collaborated with. It could result from hacking these companies' employees or email servers. It may also involve email spoofing, forging the "From" field to make the fraudulent email sent to users look official and legitimate.

What's happening now suggests that one should take the sender's email seriously and do research before clicking on the link to which you will be redirected. Fortunately, you can detect the phishing link of the Radar airdrop through the image they attached in the message, or you can also right-click to copy the link they added to the text without clicking directly and then perform further search, just like you did @OP.

Source: https://coinmarketcap.com/community/articles/65afd21750a9b65042b7b024/

I agree with you. As shown in the screenshot I attached, you'll find a significant difference between the official domain and the phishing domain in terms of both the domain names and their main interfaces. Even on Opensea's official domain, you can access any collection without being forced to login or link your wallet, unlike with the phishing site that's only seven days old. Despite the ease of this scam operation, someone might hastily click and connect his wallet after being tempted by the fake offer of 0.79 WETH presented by the scammer in the deceptive message.

Perhaps the OP is actively participating in giveaways and airdrops that are NFT-related, and scammers concluded that he would list these NFTs on Opensea based on the email he provided in one of the forms or platforms. As for me, I would recognize it as a scam even without doing any research, as I am not interested in NFTs and do not have any active listings on Opensea.

You can risk an amount if you want to make some money from trading these meme coins. Do not be sad if it is gone from you. There are those who promote the idea that everyone who invests in meme coins or one of them will achieve great wealth, and this coin will create millionaires. However, not everyone who invests in meme coins sees their dreams turn into reality. For some, their dreams become disturbing after losing all their capital due to their greed, FOMO, and blindly following the recommendations and promotional campaigns without conducting research or managing their capital.

Indeed, I haven't noticed indirect support from Elon Musk regarding $Troll. Can you @OP provide any source for that?

What they mentioned in the message you received indicates with 100% certainty that it is an executed scam, and this is what we have seen repeatedly in similar fraud cases. They stole your initial deposit money of 200K that you deposited on their fraudulent site after giving one of the false reasons. They were not satisfied with the total amount you deposited but rather greedily and cunningly asked that you pay a review deposit of 60% of the total account balance to be reviewed...Blah, blah, blah. Of course, what they mentioned can never be believed, and if everything had gone well two days before you deposited this large sum, they were luring you, in the beginning, to gain your trust until you deposited a vast sum, and then they stole it. If you had researched or sought advice here, you would not have fallen victim to this fraud. It's worth mentioning that the scam domain is only 103 days old on Whois, and even the domain name doesn't indicate anything, with no search engine results. Truly sorry for your loss.

Signature campaigns are promotional activities in the Bitcointalk forum for one of the projects or platforms managed by one of the managers in order to spread among the crypto enthusiasts here since this forum is the oldest and largest forum in the crypto arena. Each campaign has joining conditions set by the campaign manager in agreement with the client seeking promotion. There are rates for posts, payments, and more, as these campaigns depend on members’ constructive contributions. Participants support the project or platform by wearing avatars and signatures, and payment is made based on the specified payment rate for the campaign. Typically, participants receive BTC payments if the signature campaign is in the Service board, provided they comply with the campaign rules they joined and adhere to forum guidelines. As for receiving altcoins, bounty campaigns pay in altcoins in the "Bounties (Altcoins)" board.

You can try hard to benefit the members, pay attention to the quality of your posts and topics, and adhere to the rules and instructions, and when you reach a good rank, you can participate. Good luck to you.

Why didn't you provide proof of what you said, man? I am not accusing you of lying, and I have never played on Wolf.bet before, but if you adhere to the Scam Accusation's report and provide the necessary proof, this strengthens your claim. If you contact them via live chat, you can contact them via "support@wolf.bet" because I see that their representative on the forum has been inactive since June 2023. You have to wait for them to review and provide you with all the details and reasons for your account being banned due to sportsbook abuse. I hope they can help you return your deposits, and honestly, I blame you for not reading their rules and terms of use. They are not at fault if you do not adhere to one of these conditions, which you have neglected to read since you created the account on their platform and deposited your money.

Yes, they admitted this 5 months ago on their official account on X, as the ExMarktets platform was legitimate before that; they mentioned the reasons that led to its downfall and transformation into a scam. Unfortunately, they lost their reputation to the wind, and to this day, many cases have been subjected to fraud and are still being scammed by the poor team of this deceitful platform. This is what the platform’s ratings and reviews on Trustpilot show and customers' comments on social media.


^{SOURCE: https://twitter.com/ex_markets/status/1692121012358320334}

I feel sorry for what happened to you, sir, @irfan_pak10, and all those affected users. I hope this topic serves as a reference for everyone who still believes this is a legitimate exchange and has not yet discovered the truth.

This frenzy comes as soon as the meme coin becomes a trend and achieves the necessary hype through interest and significant adoption, and after attracting the interest of investors and whales and being highlighted by the media and news. Each meme coin that you mentioned had a time of special hype and popularity, including the Pepe coin. It's worth noting that new meme coins appear over time, and the old meme coins remain marginalized and inactive due to their lack of enthusiasts.

People want to catch the big wave, and this is true, in the hope of achieving significant gains and being among the first investors to buy large quantities of the currency at opportune prices. However, there are those who fall into scam coins, invest randomly, or may be tempted by their greed to invest huge amounts of money in these shitcoins. Indeed, investing in meme coins, in my opinion, is a game of chance, and only a few investors may succeed in the end or choose promising meme coins wisely.

What I saw is that the AltMarkets Exchange accounts on social media have become deserted, as their last updates were from 2021 to 2022. It is worth noting that you were not the only one who lost his BTC in this unknown scam exchange, as there was a recent review dated December 2023 by one of the customers on Trustpilot stating that they scammed him for 0.2 BTC and banned him from Discord when he complained. Your loss saddened me, and I hope you do enough research the next time you use any exchange platform, as these are the most reputable and well-known platforms in the market, making them safe options for you.


^{SOURCE: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/altmarkets.io}

If users are able actually to make withdrawals, then there is nothing to worry about. Frankly, this unfair decision was truly unfortunate for Indian traders & investors. Still, it was an expected decision in light of the fact that crypto is not regulated in India and is not legal. And if I am not mistaken, the Reserve Bank of India had called for a ban on cryptocurrencies before and claimed it was like gambling. Perhaps the ban on the nine CEX platforms in India might be challenging for the customers of these platforms, but it is not the end of their journey in this field. The more cryptocurrencies are fought against, the more resilient they become. And Indians will be able to find other regulated platforms, alternatives, and viable solutions. What I see is that the centralized platforms are the ones facing the most significant loss, as they have lost a substantial user base in populous countries like India.

Thank you also for sharing this warning. I hope that no one falls into these traps again. If there are reputable alternatives from companies with many years of experience in this field, and their details are publicly available, anyone can verify them and check the equipment from the shipping and transport office, along with positive feedback from previous customers; this would be a safe solution. Buying from unknown stores doesn't make sense just because they offer lower prices. What is more important is that they receive the mining equipment they ordered smoothly, even if they pay some additional fees.

I totally agree with you that some people are too lazy to seek advice or even do their own research, which always makes scammers successful. If you created a topic about this matter on the Russian local board, it would be appreciated and valuable to many there. May you all be well.