Another fake stellar airdrop

[CryptoYar]

Website Link:

Code:

https://get-stellar.com

Scammer's email address:

Code:

poloniex_s@yahoo.com

I received an email today, in this, I was asked to claim 2500 free stellar coins. Surely this is all fake, if any of you have received such an email, please do not pay attention to it.

Never click the link that is given to you through such an email, because such websites have a virus that is used by scammers to hack your device.

Dates   
8 days old
Created on 2020-09-21
Expires on 2021-09-21
Updated on 2020-09-21

https://whois.domaintools.com/get-stellar.com

[Upgrade00]

Nice catch, I reported the fake website link here - https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?hl=en You can equally do same or report them on some other security platform.

Protecting your contact details, like email addresses and social platforms is a good measure to prevent such scam messages. Scammers rely on information they can buy from illegal sources or those they could get by hacking a platform, so, regularly dropping your primary email addresses and other data on different platforms increases the chances of such information getting to wrong hands and they (scammers) customizing a scam attempt for unique individuals, rather than sending multiple random emails to possible addresses
The recent huge airdrop by Uniswap could cause users to let their guard down and to fall for other scams such as this.

[Charles-Tim]

Kyc is extremely dangerous, possibly the phishing attack is from one of the sites you did verification and included your email, be it legit site or not. This type of email should be ignored, even, if the email is legit, so far you do not authorized for it, it should still be ignored. This is a very common scam now, but many people are still being victims. This is one of the harms of centralization that scammers do take advantage of. Many scams are occurring in the decentralized systems because of centralization.

[sheenshane]

Just curious how they linked to your email address and send you an email, is this was sent to your spam inbox, if so, I usually ignore the message that sent to my inbox. Because I always think that they are scam and it seems not to be trusted especially if comes from strangers.

Thank you for sharing, I also reported the scam website link.

This is the reason why I don't use my personal email account on any airdrop activity, use a dummy instead that intended for the airdrop only and the email in your crypto wallet should always be separated. Scammers nowadays are willing to do everything just to fall lazy and naive people.

[CryptoYar]

Nice catch, I reported the fake website link here - https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?hl=en You can equally do same or report them on some other security platform.

Of course, such websites should be reported so that action can be taken against them as soon as possible. Thanks for reporting bro.

Just curious how they linked to your email address and send you an email,

I wonder how the scammers got my email address. Perhaps I would have registered on some suspicion website. However, after receiving this email, I have changed my email password.

is this was sent to your spam inbox,

No. I found this in my primary inbox. Thanks for reporting btw

[AhmadM]

I wonder how the scammers got my email address. Perhaps I would have registered on some suspicion website. However, after receiving this email, I have changed my email password.

Maybe you have subscribed to airdrop sites or google+ groups that sharing info about airdrops in the past?

Just try out this tool: Unroll.Me (owned by Rakuten Intelligence) to check your mail's subscriptions and you can unsubscribe it directly there as well.

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

I wonder how the scammers got my email address. Perhaps I would have registered on some suspicion website. However, after receiving this email, I have changed my email password.

Maybe you have subscribed to airdrop sites or google+ groups that sharing info about airdrops in the past?

Just try out this tool: Unroll.Me (owned by Rakuten Intelligence) to check your mail's subscriptions and you can unsubscribe it directly there as well.

Or better yet just create a new and fresh email and don't used that email you got their fake stellar airdrop. I think this is the best option. Of course you can unsubscribe but that email of yours have been exposed already.

[ScamViruS]

I wonder how the scammers got my email address. Perhaps I would have registered on some suspicion website. However, after receiving this email, I have changed my email password.

Maybe you have subscribed to airdrop sites or google+ groups that sharing info about airdrops in the past?

Just try out this tool: Unroll.Me (owned by Rakuten Intelligence) to check your mail's subscriptions and you can unsubscribe it directly there as well.

Or better yet just create a new and fresh email and don't used that email you got their fake stellar airdrop. I think this is the best option. Of course you can unsubscribe but that email of yours have been exposed already.

You are right. The scammer has already got his information. Now the scammers will target him when they create new more fake airdrop websites. I also received an email like this a few days ago, the website that gave the link in that email had an app on the website that I was asked to download. I check the app in VirusTotal before downloading and find malware in the app. So if you get such emails, you should refrain from clicking on the link.

[AthenaBanana]

I have received that also this mail is targeting people who are engaging in crypto and inside the mail is a link for downloading its wallet or program this program after you install it will steal all your data in your pc. I tried it on my spare pc (installed it for curiosity ) and your antivirus will show what are the drives that are compromised and it also shows how many % where taken

[jerry0]

I seen those in emails.  But if you click on the link, do you automatically get malware?  Or you still have to enter the information?

[TalkStar]

I seen those in emails.  But if you click on the link, do you automatically get malware?  Or you still have to enter the information?

If they directly send you the download link then it can start automatically which is not a good sign. I always suggest everyone not to download anything from unknown sources. I don’t think its necessary to click on this type of links where you know that it can contain malware.

Usually scammers collect emails from dishonest platform owners who have no care about their users personal information. We are getting this kinda emails on a regular basis where ignoring the best option for us.