I received a mail from DECoin asking me to verify that i am not a robot via their website and typing a message that will show that the wallet is mine. Unfortunately for them, I only applied for the bounty(explained how they got my email address) but i didn't do any work. So, I knew immediately that it is scam. I played along and clicked on the link in the mail, a website loaded and on this website(
http://MyEtherWallet-checks.space/signmsg), i am supposed to unlock my wallet to be able to verify that i'm not robot, who does that
I checked very well and saw that the site is like a clone of MEW.
I'm raising this issue because many like me would have gotten the message and some might not think twice before inputing their private keys. Although, i don't know if this is the norm. My question now is, can this be trusted or is it just another form of scam considering that the site is not secured?
Lastly, we really need to be careful of how we protect our wallets, so as not to get duped.
Note: I tried to reach DECoin concerning this and i haven't gotten any reply since yesterday
You are most likely dealing with a scam coins. One of the major characterisitics of coins that are not scams is their ability to be completely transparent about the things that they are doing with the project. Any project that asks you to input your private key is not a legit coin, you have to know that they want nothing but to steal your coins