Every time I try to send bitcoins out of my electrum wallet it gives a security alert which is much like phishing scams I have seen. I tried deleting the wallet and starting over but it is still there. Please help my coins are stuck in this no mans land
Last time I've checked Tails it had indeed an outdated Electrum. And Electrum older than 3.3.4 should not be used.
If you want to use it on Tails, you should install a new one onto Tails' (persistent) storage. This explanation was helpful to me first time:
https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum-docs/blob/master/tails.rstOne thing is that if you install new Electrum, it will be in a new location, probably on persistent storage. Then you will have to always start up
that app image (not the old link)
And I couldn't find a good solution to keep the seed / wallet persistent (but I didn't try too hard either).
I also tried
this tutorial, which should be extra detailed, but I guess I've done something wrong. If you are familiar with Linux, maybe it can give you some info though. It's for 3.3.4, but I guess that there's no difference in the steps for the latest Electrum.
Alternatively you can use tails
without internet and use the old wallet as cold storage, only to sign transactions. And the transactions will be built with a watch-only wallet. But that may need more reading.