⚠️ How Scammer tried to Hack my Bitcointalk and how to Protect yourself?⚠️

[DdmrDdmr]

Here are a couple more cases, with the same objective, but different kick-off approach:

[Beware]Bitcointalk PHISHING attempt by E-Mail
Fake airdrop / phishing website posted in "Services"

The former is initiated by the reception of an external Email allegedly sent from Bitcointalk, asking you to prove you are the owner of your account. The email obviously is not sent from Bitcointalk, but camouflaged just enough to make you think it might be. The contained phishing link looks like a regular Bitcointalk link, but it isn’t. You are directed to a phishing site that has an initial screen that asks you for your login credentials, it captures them, and then redirects you to Bitcointalk (official site, but obviously without having performed the actual real login).

The latter created an Airdrop thread, luring people to participate. He then PMs them, providing a phishing link similar to the above case (on the same domain and all; same site).
 
All in all, we need to place proper attention to cases such as these, and the one nicely detailed in the OP.

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[dkbit98]

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Yes. It is clearly connected and using same tactics, as I wrote in @morvillz7z topic.

This Phishing strategy became popular in this community with a different style of fraud. If you manage to avoid their first attempt of phishing they will think for another way and so on so forth.

In this case, everyone should continue not tired reading some advice from our fellow forum members, because there will be a time that we will fall to their trap and the last thing we could do is to regret that we didn't pay attention to the warning of the concern members.

Thanks for this awareness it may look like a simple thing to do but the way you let us see the actual photo of phishing will help us a lot to be aware when this kind of message will be sent to us especially those members who are not fluent in English including myself.

That is why I recommend everyone to have some fun and learn Phishing protection fast
by simply playing Quizzes that will teach you the basics of phishing.
And if you think you are an expert you can always test yourself again:
[LEARN] Phishing Quizzes - Beginners & Experts 👈

[morvillz7z]

Since this topic was bumped today i decided to look around and gather information about these very specific phishing attacks, code name - I've replied to you.
I believe all these PMs are sent by the same scammers, as you will see below, the first reported case dates from as early as 2016 and have not stopped yet.
What they all have in common is the message itself, which is the same: "Hi <insert username> I've replied to you: <hidden phishing link>

Here's a few of them (probably missing ones shared on local boards):

April 09, 2016 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1430961.0

March 13, 2017 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1823854.0

April 24, 2017 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1884287.0

September 27, 2017 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2212540

November 05, 2017 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2360981

November 10, 2017 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2384313.0

November 11, 2017 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2385827

November 16, 2017 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2412522.0

November 17, 2017 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2415681.0

December 18, 2017 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2606107.0

March 10, 2018 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3094992.0

March 12, 2018 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3109869.0

March 14, 2018 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3120906.0;

March 25, 2018 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3196724.0

March 25, 2018 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3197069.0

April 23, 2018 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3378394.0

June 05, 2018 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4423403

June 05, 2018 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4419956.0

August 13, 2019 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5175274.0

[dkbit98]

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You have a nice little collection there

I don't know if we can find exact source for all off them,
as most of accounts used for this have been hacked.

[dkbit98]

bump

[aioc]

bump

This is a very important thread that should be bump from time to time so people will be aware of ti to always look on the url of any site that you are going to visit especially Bitcointalk, your account here is very important especially if you have a high rank.

[UserU]

Thanks for the heads up. While trained eyes might spot it from a mile away, it looks innocuous to many newbies. I guess that's why their PM is disabled by default as a counter-measure.

But I feel that the "You are navigating to an external link (insert link). Do you want to continue?" prompt page would be way more effective in nullifying these things.

[dkbit98]

Thanks for the heads up. While trained eyes might spot it from a mile away, it looks innocuous to many newbies. I guess that's why their PM is disabled by default as a counter-measure.

But I feel that the "You are navigating to an external link (insert link). Do you want to continue?" prompt page would be way more effective in nullifying these things.

Yeah, I guess that would be good update for bitcointalk forum, and I think it is easy to implement it fast.