[PSA] Phishing Alert - Stellar Lumens

[HeRetiK]

Heads up, I just received a phishing email from scammers pretending to be the Stellar foundation. Claiming that "a time-based staking algorithm has been implemented into the Stellar Ledger" there's a button inviting you to "Become a Validator"; however you'll get redirected to steliar.org instead of stellar.org. There you'll find a blog post pointing you towards their "Account Viewer Tool" and... well, you can fill out the blanks.

Stay safe folks and don't get scammed!

[Bitstar_coin]

Thanks for the heads up, scammers are more determine to rekt innocent people who will mistakenly fall into their trap, very good observation of the difference in the website link, it is little tricks like this they use in deceiving people into falling for them, i hope this alert can save some people from getting scammed this period.

[superving]

Thanks for the warning mate , cause some might fall on this modus and thier account details can be stolen specially on newbies and those who are not reviewing emails where it came from.

[elda34b]

Before you click the link you should also check the sender too. If it looks suspicious (from gmail and not from Stellar website directly, for example) then it's 100% scam. It will save your time instead of checking the link which might already have some injected code when you click it.

[AthenaBanana]

Heads up, I just received a phishing email from scammers pretending to be the Stellar foundation. Claiming that "a time-based staking algorithm has been implemented into the Stellar Ledger" there's a button inviting you to "Become a Validator"; however you'll get redirected to steliar.org instead of stellar.org. There you'll find a blog post pointing you towards their "Account Viewer Tool" and... well, you can fill out the blanks.

Stay safe folks and don't get scammed!

I've got the same email also but I didn't believe it and report it as phishing mail free money is too hard to believe and they are asking to download a software this software will run on your background and steal data on your computer