Careful where you connect your wallet

[qwertyup23]

I guess that the bottomline from this post is that, if there are any suspicious links that are being sent anonymously by some random newbie or stranger, avoid clicking it and putting any of your additional details. One of the purpose of this forum is have an extra layer of security when it comes to suspicious links, websites, and/or exchanges. You can literally post the name of a desired exchange/website and ask for feedback if it is genuine or not.

Again, any random and suspicious links being sent by strangers should be avoided at all cost. Like what I always mentioned to similar posts like this, prevention is always better than cure. Avoid putting yourself in a situation where the risk is significantly high.

[GigaBit]

A user needs to raise maximum awareness before anything happens. Otherwise, you may be exposed to various dangers. It is your responsibility to protect your account from random and unknown sites. Connecting a wallet in the hope of a simple gain is a major loss. In this case, you have to make sure that your private information is not stolen or hacked or that you do not share it through any phishing sites. This is mostly due to the weakness of the user.

Moreover, his wallet can be accepted for hacking through various types of malware. A few days ago there was a news where a person downloaded a trojan app on the device. Once installed, the Trojan app steals $600,000 worth of bitcoins from the wallet app. This is what the Android Trojan known as "Sharkbot" does. Sharkbot initiates money transfers from crypto and banking apps to compromised devices, bypassing the verification system. Adding insult to injury, the malware also prevents its users from deleting it.
In addition to using malware, hackers often try to exploit the interfaces that connect the crypto wallet to the backend services that support the app.

At the very least a user will be able to use their device and wallet with maximum risk reduction when they use it securely. Keep in mind that downloading any app from an unknown source is risky. Especially if you have a wallet on that device.

For more info: https://www.appdome.com/dev-sec-blog/top-5-attacks-aimed-at-crypto-wallet-apps-and-how-to-solve-them/

[Bobrox]

Little difficult not connecting wallet access when joining many kinds airdrop right now, actually have several airdrop campaign eligible with old wallet participants but to know qualifying or not have to connect or give access to our wallet. I have prepare before accessing or connecting my wallet to airdrop need to sign in or approved wallet by using wallet without any fund yet. I don't brave when connecting new airdrop site and have fund in my wallet because we can't guarantee which one trusted site or scam.

• Prepare funds for transfer of your token to a new wallet, don't make exact value or amount since gas fee's changes

I am interested with this points and better transferring fund to other wallet if want connected with new airdrop site, or main wallet better used for joining airdrop actually airdrop form can appear with your wallet directly.

[yazher]

This has happened before in MyEther wallet, when this happened, it's more likely you don't have any remedy about it because whenever you try to send some ETH to get some of the tokens in your wallet, the ETH will automatically be sent to some unknown address and I believe that's what's happening to you but instead of ETH, yours is BNB. The tokens right there is just a decoy, they purposely leave it there for others to send some ETH or BNB to be able to get it but the wallet is already compromised and there is a bot that will gonna send the remaining BNB or ETH balance to the scammer's address.

[Crypt0Gore]

Two different crypto wallets is enough to solve this issue.

Use one to store your coins and tokens and use the second one to participate in any airdrops or whatever, the reason why a crypto wallet get compromised is connecting the wallet to a fake platform or trying to sell a fake token you get out of nowhere.

[bakasabo]

Or, users should pay more attention what they accept while connecting their wallets, they should not immediately click on "YES" or "Apply". I think nothing can be wrong if you allow someone to see your balance or list of transaction, address are transparent after all.

To all given suggestion here, I would like to add to google the information about the place you are going to connect your wallet to. Sometimes there are already "bad experience stories" on first links or pages that google search give.

[len01]

As you can see to the transactions we made funds are being sent out once we send decent amount to the wallet
so next time be very careful on where you connect those metawallets or other wallets to avoid this king of trouble

what you are experiencing has often happened to a number of people here, especially airdrop participants who often connect their wallets to certain sites to claim free tokens but don't see whether the site is safe or not. so that there is malware that infiltrates your wallet or computer.

so my advice is not to store coins or tokens that have a high value in the wallet that is used to take part in airdrops or bounties. so you have to have 2 separate wallets from 1 computer to another.
so that every time you have a coin/token that has a high value, immediately move it to a second wallet that you don't use to take part in airdrops or bounties

[Hildentine]

Absolutely right according to my experience is that if you need to connect your wallet into website,exchanges etc so be careful because many people connect there wallet into a wrong website and then a hacker hacked there wallet so be careful and first of all see the website are real are not many time we connect over main wallet in unverified website so that a Big mistake and we loss our fund .

[Bitstar_coin]

It is important to learn to separate the main wallet from the casual wallet. If you have a wallet that holds the majority of your funds be mindful of the site you connect it to, in fact, if possible avoid connecting to different sites, but rather use a separate wallet for such things.
Also, maintain the habit of always completely disconnecting your wallet from any site you visited. Little mistakes can cause a lot of havoc.

[Lainta]

Be careful using your metamask and other wallets , i have encounter that my funds are being stolen automatically and being sent to a certain address, experience this in binance network, other coins are not stolen only the bnb token, every time funds are being sent, there is a few seconds before your funds will automatically sent to an address.

So how will us be able to transfer tokens to a new address? here is what i did

• Prepare funds for transfer of your token to a new wallet, don't make exact value or amount since gas fee's changes
• Create a new wallet from another computer don't create a new wallet on the same computer
• Select assets and make the transaction ready, remember that what ever automation made from your wallet has delays of few seconds
• On the other computer or laptop send the funds to the old wallet where you need to remove your other tokens, then send the token to your new address
• In the process once your old wallet received the funds, the transfer of you made from your old wallet will be the first to process
• Repeat this process until you transfer all your tokens to the new address

This process may or might not work with others but i have tried this to two of my friends, then i suggest format your computer, to make sure since my suspicion are computer might be infected of a certain malware, or because of the connection you made before to a certain app, or network on a chain.
I hope this will be able to help others who might experience it before or in the future

As you can see to the transactions we made funds are being sent out once we send decent amount to the wallet
so next time be very careful on where you connect those metawallets or other wallets to avoid this king of trouble

You are right Brother and also Thanks for sharing good information. This post is specially for a newbie because they have less knowledge about a wallet how to secure your wallet and also how to save your wallet from hacker.

[albon]

Be careful using your metamask and other wallets, i have encounter that my funds are being stolen automatically and being sent to a certain address, experience this in binance network, other coins are not stolen only the bnb token, every time funds are being sent, there is a few seconds before your funds will automatically sent to an address.

I am sad about what happened to you buddy, thank you for sharing your advice with the crypto community, it is a big mistake to connect your main wallet to participate in any Airdrop or claim NFTs, or give permissions to malicious DApps through which the scammer can control your currencies completely, but we have to create a new wallet for that, and we do not put a lot of fees inside this new wallet so that the scammer cannot steal huge fees inside the wallet, and we have to use a cold wallet to keep our wealth away from MetaMask and others, as it is the safest.

[roslinpl]

Lot of scam project was begin to steal our crypto currency. Because crypto currency was not easily trackable one. It’s better to do background verification before connecting to any other external resource which is not a trusted one. Many people had bad stories because of connect the wallet to the unknow wallet. Even one can hack your wallet, if you connect your wallet to get some fake coins. So don’t involve in most of airdrops, many of them are scam one.

[Hypnosis00]

This has happened before in MyEther wallet, when this happened, it's more likely you don't have any remedy about it because whenever you try to send some ETH to get some of the tokens in your wallet, the ETH will automatically be sent to some unknown address and I believe that's what's happening to you but instead of ETH, yours is BNB. The tokens right there is just a decoy, they purposely leave it there for others to send some ETH or BNB to be able to get it but the wallet is already compromised and there is a bot that will gonna send the remaining BNB or ETH balance to the scammer's address.

This is the reason why I often change the ETH address and even the password.
Though I have no experience from what you have maybe because I anticipate it already. If you are a long-time user of that wallet then can be prone to malware attacks and much more if exposed to huge transactions. It wasn't safe already and before that things happen, we have to take action first and send our valuable coins to another wallet (that is what I usually do). However, paying huge fees is really a burden to us.

[lalabotax]

Be careful using your metamask and other wallets , i have encounter that my funds are being stolen automatically and being sent to a certain address, experience this in binance network, other coins are not stolen only the bnb token, every time funds are being sent, there is a few seconds before your funds will automatically sent to an address.

This is an extraordinary experience and can teach us to be careful. Connecting an online wallet is indeed risky, especially when we try to connect with a certain platform that we don't trust. Or when we click on a link and it turns out to be phishing. Currently, there are many ways hackers and scammers carry out cyber attacks and steal our assets. This is just one example and I'm sure there are other ways they use it.

What i actually saying is that you wouldn't have shared this screenshot above here because it doesn't represent anything meaningful and besides it was on old transaction and how does people believe what you are saying. This transaction was made about 251 days ago and how does this related to your post or topic, is there anything to understand here? It would have been better you created it as suggestions than as a witness to someone whom have fallen victim.

In my opinion, whether this is true or not, we can take lessons from all of this. We will never know what will happen next and by reading ii, we will become more aware and careful. It may not seem so believable, but the lessons that can be drawn from this possible experience are well worth it. It's true, we need to be more careful in connecting our online wallet so that we can avoid something bad happening to us. Regardless whether we believe in the story above, it's up to us. The important thing is that we learn the lesson.

[Silberman]

Be careful using your metamask and other wallets, i have encounter that my funds are being stolen automatically and being sent to a certain address, experience this in binance network, other coins are not stolen only the bnb token, every time funds are being sent, there is a few seconds before your funds will automatically sent to an address.

I am sad about what happened to you buddy, thank you for sharing your advice with the crypto community, it is a big mistake to connect your main wallet to participate in any Airdrop or claim NFTs, or give permissions to malicious DApps through which the scammer can control your currencies completely, but we have to create a new wallet for that, and we do not put a lot of fees inside this new wallet so that the scammer cannot steal huge fees inside the wallet, and we have to use a cold wallet to keep our wealth away from MetaMask and others, as it is the safest.

Despite the bear market hackers and scammers are very actively lately and it seems we are seeing more and more people losing their coins, so we need to be extremely careful with how we take care of them, I really think that people need to do an introspection and if they cannot protect their coins then they need to simply accept it and get a hardware wallet, even if a person is only holding a few hundred dollars worth of coins getting a hardware wallet is a good idea, as it is way more difficult for scammers and hackers to access your coins when you are using one of those devices.

[abel1337]

Be careful using your metamask and other wallets, i have encounter that my funds are being stolen automatically and being sent to a certain address, experience this in binance network, other coins are not stolen only the bnb token, every time funds are being sent, there is a few seconds before your funds will automatically sent to an address.

I am sad about what happened to you buddy, thank you for sharing your advice with the crypto community, it is a big mistake to connect your main wallet to participate in any Airdrop or claim NFTs, or give permissions to malicious DApps through which the scammer can control your currencies completely, but we have to create a new wallet for that, and we do not put a lot of fees inside this new wallet so that the scammer cannot steal huge fees inside the wallet, and we have to use a cold wallet to keep our wealth away from MetaMask and others, as it is the safest.

Despite the bear market hackers and scammers are very actively lately and it seems we are seeing more and more people losing their coins, so we need to be extremely careful with how we take care of them, I really think that people need to do an introspection and if they cannot protect their coins then they need to simply accept it and get a hardware wallet, even if a person is only holding a few hundred dollars worth of coins getting a hardware wallet is a good idea, as it is way more difficult for scammers and hackers to access your coins when you are using one of those devices.

Hackers are becoming attracted to crypto maybe after finding how lucrative it is to take hack some wallets compared in doing traditional hacking works. Hackers are evolving and they are creating and finding new methods of hacking and beating the system. Even non-custodial wallets are being hacked just by using smart contracts, I'm assuming that sooner or later we will see new methods as we progressed near the bull market season. One thing is for sure, Hard wallets is much more secured but I'm pretty sure that at this time there are a hacker or group of hacker finding a way to also bypass the strong security of hard wallets. So even how secured hard wallets are, I believe that we still need to be careful.

[Lanatsa]

Be careful using your metamask and other wallets, i have encounter that my funds are being stolen automatically and being sent to a certain address, experience this in binance network, other coins are not stolen only the bnb token, every time funds are being sent, there is a few seconds before your funds will automatically sent to an address.

I am sad about what happened to you buddy, thank you for sharing your advice with the crypto community, it is a big mistake to connect your main wallet to participate in any Airdrop or claim NFTs, or give permissions to malicious DApps through which the scammer can control your currencies completely, but we have to create a new wallet for that, and we do not put a lot of fees inside this new wallet so that the scammer cannot steal huge fees inside the wallet, and we have to use a cold wallet to keep our wealth away from MetaMask and others, as it is the safest.

Despite the bear market hackers and scammers are very actively lately and it seems we are seeing more and more people losing their coins, so we need to be extremely careful with how we take care of them, I really think that people need to do an introspection and if they cannot protect their coins then they need to simply accept it and get a hardware wallet, even if a person is only holding a few hundred dollars worth of coins getting a hardware wallet is a good idea, as it is way more difficult for scammers and hackers to access your coins when you are using one of those devices.

Hackers are becoming attracted to crypto maybe after finding how lucrative it is to take hack some wallets compared in doing traditional hacking works. Hackers are evolving and they are creating and finding new methods of hacking and beating the system. Even non-custodial wallets are being hacked just by using smart contracts, I'm assuming that sooner or later we will see new methods as we progressed near the bull market season. One thing is for sure, Hard wallets is much more secured but I'm pretty sure that at this time there are a hacker or group of hacker finding a way to also bypass the strong security of hard wallets. So even how secured hard wallets are, I believe that we still need to be careful.

When certain hacking methods had been busted up or been known the these hackers arent really stopping on finding or making new ways just to stole out peoples money.This is why its really need up that common

sense of ours to be in use so that you would really make yourself that able to avoid on getting hacked or stolen up your funds.When it comes to wallet connectivity then you arent that dumb on making out

suspicious connections or permissions which would really be causing up those huge problems.When you are really that mindful about security then dont make yourself download
carelessly anything online. Everything should really be handled out with extreme caution specially on steps and move that you would be doing.

[BitDane]

It is quite hard to compete against a bot script  because they are activated once the BNB touches the infected wallet address.  There is a huge chance that you will be wasting your BNB trying to transfer all your coins from the infected wallet to a new wallet.  Though you would be lucky if there is a time delay set on the script implanted to your wallet address contract before it activate to steal your coins.  I think the best course here is to setup a faster bot script to compete with the hackers bot script.

[goinmerry]

Technically, your funds can't just be stolen easily if you just connect your wallet.

Not unless you provide your private keys, passphrase, or anything that can open up and access your wallet, you will be doomed.

Maybe you are also infected with malware and related stuff. Next time, be vigilant as our wallet safety depends on our own.

[TheGreatPython]

Little difficult not connecting wallet access when joining many kinds airdrop right now, actually have several airdrop campaign eligible with old wallet participants but to know qualifying or not have to connect or give access to our wallet. I have prepare before accessing or connecting my wallet to airdrop need to sign in or approved wallet by using wallet without any fund yet. I don't brave when connecting new airdrop site and have fund in my wallet because we can't guarantee which one trusted site or scam.

• Prepare funds for transfer of your token to a new wallet, don't make exact value or amount since gas fee's changes

I am interested with this points and better transferring fund to other wallet if want connected with new airdrop site, or main wallet better used for joining airdrop actually airdrop form can appear with your wallet directly.

I think majority of airdrops doesn't work like that but you will only need to provide your wallet address in the submission form. Why not join those types of airdrops if you are scared of connecting your wallet? But, you should keep in mind that your wallet address can be exposed in public and someone can send you random coins which are shady.

We shouldn't touch those coins for our safety. Other than transferring most of your funds to a new wallet, why can't you just create a new wallet? That should save you time and transaction fees. It's also possible to know if the airdrop is scam or not by researching their name. Sometimes a scam airdrop will show a warning.