Yes, it was a hyperlink.
This user clicked on
https://www.ledger.com/helpdesk/bip39tool/ but in fact he accessed a different website. If he had copied the address manually or moved his mouse cursor over the link, he would have noticed that something was wrong. The user did not check the address bar immediately after accessing the website.
Holy crap. And OP, thanks for posting the warning. I've owned a Ledger for about a month now, so I've been reading stuff in this section about it and could well have fallen for the same thing.
It is stated everywhere that your seed words should be written down by hand and stored in a safe place. It should never be uploaded or stored online for any reason.
That's probably the only reason I
wouldn't have gotten scammed, because I'm not entering my seed phrase onto anything anytime soon, but I suspect if my Ledger breaks or something like that I'll eventually have to. Good to know about these sorts of scams.
I guess hackers will try with this attack on Reddit as long as there is some success for them, and creating new accounts and posting is free.
Freakin' Reddit, man. I avoid them like the plague, even if there's occasionally some good information posted there about crypto. Don't know exactly why, but that entire site gives me a very bad vibe.