Warning: Another Electrum phishing site

[Baofeng]

https://twitter.com/ElectrumWallet/status/1144678604523147265

This time, the Phishing site is hiding using punycode, https://thehackernews.com/2017/04/unicode-Punycode-phishing-attack.html

Earlier, someone has reported the the official website has been down for days so perhaps this is one reason or either they are DDoS'ed. So just stay alert so that you will not be a victim.

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[mk4]

It's that cheeky technique that scammers used on Binance like a year ago: "biṇaṇce.com".

Chances are, this phishing link is once again spread through Google ads. Not sure why Google isn't making moves by not allowing websites with such characters to be advertised, as I'm not really sure if there's actually legitimate websites that uses such characters in the first place.

[stadus]

I'm glad that they give early warning about this, those who plan to plan to use this wallet provider has to be careful all the time.
Hackers really targeting electrum as they know lots of crypto users are using this wallet, me, don't have to worry bout this as I have already bookmarked the legit website.

[bitmover]

The best thing is to manually write Electrum.org in your browser. The same with bitcointalk.org
Clicking in links or Google Ads for those websites are the most dangerous options.

[mk4]

I'm glad that they give early warning about this, those who plan to plan to use this wallet provider has to be careful all the time.

Yea.. It's good that they warned people through Twitter, but chances are, if the more knowledgeable people like most of us here found out about these new phishing sites, chances are that the hacker has already stolen funds from people through the phishing site.

[DdmrDdmr]

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Although I don’t use Electrum, the puny code article link in the OP is interesting to view, and I’ve gone ahead and made the suggested changes found there to my Chrome explorer. I can now view puny codes which were camouflaged before, which is an additional precaution. 

[joniboini]

Luckily I use Brave, which should protect me from this kind of attack (based on what I've read).
Firefox should make punycode shown by default (if it is not yet).

[Pffrt]

It's that cheeky technique that scammers used on Binance like a year ago: "biṇaṇce.com".

Chances are, this phishing link is once again spread through Google ads. Not sure why Google isn't making moves by not allowing websites with such characters to be advertised, as I'm not really sure if there's actually legitimate websites that uses such characters in the first place.

It's really a shame that only for revenue they are allowing all phishing sites to be promoted. Facebook is also allowing people to advertise scam websites which I have observed a few times.

[mk4]

It's really a shame that only for revenue they are allowing all phishing sites to be promoted. Facebook is also allowing people to advertise scam websites which I have observed a few times.

They are not "allowing" it on purpose. Due to the huge number of adviertisers Google's and Facebook's software checks for the ads that are being submitted, and not manually checked one by one by people. Hence, these phishing sites could easily pass through.

[Siren]

I'm glad that they give early warning about this, those who plan to plan to use this wallet provider has to be careful all the time.
Hackers really targeting electrum as they know lots of crypto users are using this wallet, me, don't have to worry bout this as I have already bookmarked the legit website.

Yeah and I am one of those who turns out safe since I planned to use electrum for the first time but lucky to read this before having one.
At least now I can create my electrum wallet safer than others

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Although I don’t use Electrum, the puny code article link in the OP is interesting to view, and I’ve gone ahead and made the suggested changes found there to my Chrome explorer. I can now view puny codes which were camouflaged before, which is an additional precaution. 

Or maybe I don’t use electrum also?Since I have no reason so far to use this but I have read in service about the importance of electrum specially when the transaction is slower and need to be accelerated