2 new Metamask phishing site thru Google Ads

[Dave1]

Scammers find their way in Google ads again to execute their scam attempts.

Code:

www.maskmeha.io - Sponsored Ads on Google
https://installmeta.com/
https://installmetamask.com/

Archived: https://archive.is/GSUUa

And once you click "Install"->"Start", then you will be presented by this screen:



And then if you either create a new wallet or import seed, you fall for the trick.



The site was created a week ago:



https://whois.domaintools.com/installmetamask.com

[akirasendo17]

yes this is true I have seen the post of my friends on Facebook and someone already falls into this trick, we should be aware, thank you for bringing this to our attention, this will save a lot of people and will not steal their money, I have there is something that Google can do about this like checking if it's really legit but for now we just have to be very careful, or we are going to suffer in the future.

[Darker45]

Scammers find their way in Google ads again to execute their scam attempts.

I'm not sure if again is the right word here when Google Ads has never really been completely purged of this kind of modus. Well, people should just develop the behavior of disregarding altogether the Ad part of their keyword search results. I hope this is taken down already.

[btc_angela]

I'm no longer seeing the ads on Google, they might have taken it down already because users started to report it. However, the fake metamask is still up and we need to report it as well.

I also maintained a list of my own: Metamask phishing site.

[lovesmayfamilis]

With today's interests in cryptocurrencies, the number of scammers is growing at an arithmetic progression.
Every day there is a lot of news about the hacking of various wallets, about phishing sites that inexperienced users regularly feed with their finances.
Yesterday's warning about a malicious extension that disguises itself as metamask is another and far from the last extension that Google allows.
The official site itself tirelessly warns about the activity of phishing extensions.
https://twitter.com/metamask_io/status/1334012407014834184?s=20


But the questions that many people have for Google, how long this company will turn a blind eye to the fact that this is not the first time it has placed phishing extensions, seem to remain unanswered.

[Dave1]

And someone has already fallen for it.



https://twitter.com/dcon18/status/1334352894347288576

And the reports keeps coming.

[Asuspawer09]

And then if you either create a new wallet or import seed, you fall for the trick.

I'm familiar with this one and I'm sure its use in a lot of platforms where metamask is used, I fall into this phishing scam by putting my private key in the textbox without even thinking.

But the wallet doesn't have any amount so I don't really care, A lot of people in telegram and discord will pm you that has this interface, thinking that it might be a free giveaway or something.

It's pretty convincing since they are trying to copy 1 layer of UI of a website trying to make it look like a legitimate website and then when you enter this screen will appear.

[Baofeng]

^^ Yes, that's how it is that you are going to be trap here, it's so unbelievable to hear that someone still falls for this trick with the recent 'improvement' from the recent ruse of this scammers. I already don't know where is the blame here, but I would say that Google has some accountability here here. And I fell sorry for the guy who lost their money again in crypto from this criminals.

[libert19]

^^ Yes, that's how it is that you are going to be trap here, it's so unbelievable to hear that someone still falls for this trick with the recent 'improvement' from the recent ruse of this scammers.

New people come into crypto everyday, so there is never a shortage of new fishes that scammers can fish for

[pakhitheboss]

I can't believe in today's time people are still falling for Metamask scam. If I remember correctly, three years back there was an app on Google play store which was named Metamask and everyone at that time thought it was a legit app from Metamask untill it was discovered it wasn't. By that time a lot of people lost quite a good amount of their money.

People are still falling for such scams it seems it is veery easy to scam people who are new or have been in crypto sphere as these guys are still ignorant and won't listen to what others have to say.

[Maus0728]

I don't know if everyone practices installing "uBlock Origin" as one of their browser add-ons. Though I am fully aware that this is not an ad-blocker, however, based on my experience it can effectively help solve these kinds of phishing attempts in a form of ads that is not carefully filtered by Google . Been using their services for quite some time and fortunately, I never encountered such scam attempts up to this date.

[1] https://ublockorigin.com/

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

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I have created this thread, AdBlock and UBlock. Perhaps others can revisit it if you hadn't done so.

[Pmalek]

I already don't know where is the blame here, but I would say that Google has some accountability here here. And I fell sorry for the guy who lost their money again in crypto from this criminals.

The blame is to be shared by everyone. It's Google's fault for allowing sites to become sponsored ads without doing a more extensive research on what exactly they are. Google's main focus is profit instead of keeping their users safe. They can at least try to balance it out a little bit.

It is high time people learned how to use Google's search engine correctly and stop clicking on the first thing that pops up. With crypto, you are in charge of your own financials and no one can help you if you make a mistake and your money goes somewhere it wasn't supposed to. That requires checking, double and triple checking if necessary. 

[Yaunfitda]

^^ Yes, that's how it is that you are going to be trap here, it's so unbelievable to hear that someone still falls for this trick with the recent 'improvement' from the recent ruse of this scammers. I already don't know where is the blame here, but I would say that Google has some accountability here here. And I fell sorry for the guy who lost their money again in crypto from this criminals.

I agree that the blame should be in both parties, crypto users for not doing their due diligence and just click everything they see in Google search and then Google itself for allowing it in their search engine and placing it on top in page 1, even higher than the original Metamask itself.

So this will continue, for many years until Google will review every applications for their Google ad service.

[Dave1]

I'll bump this one with new Metamask phishing site:

Website:

Code:

metamaskweb.com
metamaskwallet.net

The UI is very similar to those other metamask other members discover and reported here, so no doubt that same set of criminals are still creating this kind of malicious sites.

[Imran232]

Scammers find their way in Google ads again to execute their scam attempts.

Code:

www.maskmeha.io - Sponsored Ads on Google
https://installmeta.com/
https://installmetamask.com/

Archived: https://archive.is/GSUUa

And once you click "Install"->"Start", then you will be presented by this screen:



And then if you either create a new wallet or import seed, you fall for the trick.



The site was created a week ago:



https://whois.domaintools.com/installmetamask.com

That is why all legit crypto decentralized or centralized exchange campaign all that time that verify or officials site link before gives any details. They spend lots of money for this campaign too. But still we are not aware we are trust on google search. We have to ask 2nd time before take any action that is this the real one? Though we can't blame google. Because google is working on its ai robot or seo. For us google made this option that anyone can make his business online and reached it to its needy people. But scammer took that chance and the promot their fake business to scam with people. In this reason we have to use our brain smartly. If google take any action like if google make it adds option tricky then problem will be for us those people who is not expert in making adds they face problem and the expert users take a good charge for running add campaign.  If google do this scammer don't have any problem because they are already expert on this they are educated in this matter they can run their campaign easily. I hope all of you understand.