Not only the Coinmarkercap phishing site, but when I do a random search for "bscscan" on google then on the first page I will find another phishing site almost the same as the coinmarketcap phishing site, is it possible this is done by the same scam? I don't know exactly but it seems that the phishing site is now back in Google search.
But be careful when doing a typed search on google, make sure to click on the original link, sometimes above it is always slipped on a phishing site.
Yes, they're doing the same scam and could be the same people behind these phishing links. Let's just report them so that Google will remove them with our help.
I'm not sure if an ad block extension will help, but I think Ublock Origin has filtered out a lot of ads when I googled. Maybe you should consider an ad blocker, it will at least help you get search results without ads.
This suggestion may have been talked about a lot, but I think bookmarking the original site will also prevent you from entering phishing sites. So always being alert is important.
I'll use that but for the meantime, I think that I'll stay on the typical usage without them so that I can report those phishing links that would appear as I search. And for bookmarking, it's a lowkey advise but definitely works.
This can be classified into the category of one of the more sophisticated scams, where the scammers actually spend money to promote their make-believe schemes. You would be surprised and wonder why these money they spend on running ads for dubious means cannot be redirected to investment in legitimate things.
If we can really commit to reporting these dubious ads whenever we come across them as people who know better, we actually will be doing the cryptocurrency community a favour helping to reduce the number of fraudulent ads and people who fall victim to them.
That's right, there's no other thing that we can do but to unite and voluntarily report all of those suspicious and obvious websites that would appear on google's ad appearance on its top search.
I have never seen CoinMarketCap ask to connect Metamask, so I am not gonna connect it anyway. But the problem would happen with newbies and that's for sharing with us. Hope newbies will take the lesson from here. Google doesn't filter phishing sites at all. So always need to be very careful connecting your wallet to Google search. We shouldn't be greedy and have to share with the community when we find something suspicious like this. So we can save our funds and help others as well.
It's always like this, Google should have been more aware with all of these phishing links as they accept them to advertise with them and then eventually, they're being reported. They should increase their way of filtering these scam ads and the standards before accepting such.
I would rename the subject to "Beware of any fake website!". unfortunately, phishing is so common, it is very difficult to fight against it.
it certainly doesn't help when Google accepts such dubious sites, in addition to their fake fight and crypto ban in their ad space
We can just hope for the best that Google would be thoughtful of the newbies in the crypto and they'll eliminate these type of ads. That's what they can do to give back to community by protecting everyone by not allowing to pass these scam sites to advertise on them.
Here are some search results based on common keywords such as coinmarketcap and bscscan.
There might be some targeting based on these ads and you're not part of it, but some folks really are seeing these ads for real.
It seems that in the past Coinmarketcap had provided a SWAP feature which was directly integrated with several Dapps websites such as Uniswap, Pancakeswap and ran on the BNB and ETH networks. But when I check now the feature is gone. For some reason I also don't know, maybe there are some bugs or there will be more development.
I didn't know that they've got such feature before but it's better be gone because scammers/hackers will take advantage of this feature.
About Coinmarketcap phishing website, I found 3 phishing websites and all of them were advertised by Google. Scammers deliberately make this and advertise it so that it can be clicked by unscrupulous victims.
To report it, click report so that phishing websites like this are immediately removed. and make sure the original website to be bookmarked.
Damn, too many of them and it seems unstoppable. We really have just to volunteer on our own if we see such appear everytime we search with those few clicks and report it, there's also the other way of reporting it on OP.
If the person searching for coinmarketcap without checking the url would surely fall with this phishing site. This is clearly a phishing site and it is not an exchange so why would you connect any wallet. This is the reason why we should be careful enough with what we do especially when you want to import a wallet since phishing sites are still around just like this one. Phishing sites have been discussed many times and there are tips how to avoid it or never see it again which is to block the fake site.
If he's also careless and there's some ads appeared at the top search, basically, these phishing links are the ones that shall appear. If someone is not keen on really checking the spelling of the URL and has got his Metamask and the other mentioned wallet ready, he'll voluntarily going to fall for this scam.
It didn't show to me but today I tried and now there is a new phishing site using this keyword "coinmarketcap" and here is another fake one below
https://coinmaprrketcap.us/
The owner seems too desperate to get some victims and abuse the free $100 credits on AdWords.
Why not report it together again before anyone falls into this trap?
It seems they have few strategies having multiple domain and set them to target different countries and new users only.
I have reported all of those links that have been on this thread and hopefully the others would also do the same thing. These scammers a.k.a hackers too knows how to really use and maximize the use of Google.
