[WARNING] A Phising Site From a FAKE Telegram Account of Quickswap

[holydarkness]

So, a short story before we begin, I was playing around Quickswap, a fork of Uniswap that runs on Polygon Chain, because a project I currently investigating was on it. It leads me to a Telegram group that poses as their official account, which --I believe-- their sole purpose is to lead the visitor to their phising site.

I am not an admin of Quickswap, or related to them, this thread was made to warn clueless users and members from a trap of a phising site on a telegram impersonating them.

If you type "quickswap official" on the telegram search bar instead from a search engine like google, you'll get a result as below.



Their telegram will looks quite legit, with a lot of members commenting and actively chatting, bot admin, a "chief admin", they even has a nice "star" on their name to strengthen their official-ness. But, if you look closer, you'll notive that those members has to be a bumping accounts or bots or fake users, given most were a "deleted account" or account without username, and if you scroll way back into their earliest date, you'll see that they only began to "talk" recently.



Anyway, let's say you're looking for their tg group because your transaction got stuck or you're facing some problem in swapping on their platform, stumbled upon this channel and you believe this is their legit channel, so you followed suggesstion of their bot because they said you have to try these steps first prior to PMing an admin --which, the admin himself is also a scammer.



Following their link will brings you to these sequences:



And that's it. You know what'll hapen next if you submit your private key into thier site. As the rule of thumb suggest: NEVER, ever ever ever, give your Private Key to anyone.

tl;dr: There is a fake Quickswap telegram channel which leads to a phising site. Quickswap official Telegram Account is @QuickSwapDEX, as informed in one of their tweet back in July which also acknowledged there are channels impersonating them:

[shasan]

A good user will never rely on telegram as there are a lot of scammers and they could do this as anytime username can be changed also name canbe shown on the search result. Only the unaware people will be fall on their trap. You can see the maximum reputed users who works as campaign manager, lender, traders telgram impersonating by scammer. Even I have noticed several times several accounts impersonating me.

[hugeblack]

Thanks for the warning, but Telegram started fighting such scams, so report them and you will get a quick response.
The problem is the ease and speed of creating such channels and adding huge numbers of subscribers easily. Therefore, it is better to modify the settings to prevent others from adding you to groups.
Also, the search option is bad for those who want to search for the official group.

[holydarkness]

Thanks for the warning, but Telegram started fighting such scams, so report them and you will get a quick response.
The problem is the ease and speed of creating such channels and adding huge numbers of subscribers easily. Therefore, it is better to modify the settings to prevent others from adding you to groups.
Also, the search option is bad for those who want to search for the official group.

I agree that using TG search bar is quite a bad idea, but I think there are quite some inexperienced users out there who stil uses the search function, thinking it'll be more accurate and focused than using a web search engine, while it is not necessarily true. Thus, embracing the spirit of better be safe than sorry, this thread --and other warning thread I made-- is an attempt to inform clueless members and newbies, which doubles as a report of a phising attempt.

It might be wise to add, another good idea --a better one than using google, actuallly-- is to get into the project's website or their official ANN thread. They most likely will have a link to their medias, like twitter, telegram, instagram, etc. which will --absolutely-- more accurate.