Scammers sending messages of trust wallet verification.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Another thing got me curious, how did they get your email address ? From the little time I have operated trust wallet you don’t really require an email to sign up there since it’s a non-custodial wallet so how did they send you an email?

That's the first thing I thought, too, because I've played around with many different wallets (Trust being one of them, and I'm not a fan) and I can't think of a single one that requires an e-mail address--and certainly Trust didn't. 

What I'm thinking is that these dipshit scammers got their e-mail list dump from one of the big data breaches in the crypto space, maybe Ledger.  Hell, maybe even bitcointalk if e-mail addresses were accessible.  With so many of them, the chances are that there would be a decent number of recipients who use the Trust wallet, and it would only take a small number of suckers with large balances to make the scheme worthwhile.

But I wonder if anyone did fall for this shit.  Sometimes I see various crypto subreddits in which people confess to getting scammed by methods like this one, but they aren't numerous as far as I can tell.

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[holydarkness]

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What I'm thinking is that these dipshit scammers got their e-mail list dump from one of the big data breaches in the crypto space, maybe Ledger.  Hell, maybe even bitcointalk if e-mail addresses were accessible.
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My memory is vague for this matter, but if it is correct [and there is a good --not huge, just good-- chance that it serves me wrong] there are campaigns in the past that required their participants to enroll with their email as PoA. So, even without the forum's address database gotten breached, some emails are accessible for scam attempt.

Not that I'm saying OP got his email breached from that method, just... pointing out a small fact. I think it's more likely OP got "compromised" from database auction.

Edit: verifying that my memory does serve me correctly.

[TheSpiral]

My memory is vague for this matter, but if it is correct [and there is a good --not huge, just good-- chance that it serves me wrong] there are campaigns in the past that required their participants to enroll with their email as PoA. So, even without the forum's address database gotten breached, some emails are accessible for scam attempt.

Not that I'm saying OP got his email breached from that method, just... pointing out a small fact. I think it's more likely OP got "compromised" from database auction.

Edit: verifying that my memory does serve me correctly.

your memory is so sharp and there was some compaigns In past asking for optional mail. One compaign i  found is Tori finance where some users used mail in POA. The latest one is Solid trade email is used in POA

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5411055.msg60821630#msg60821630

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5368621.0

I have checked OP history and OP didn't used email in POA in any compaign. I think OP used mail address for registration in any airdrops projects and data has been leaked. scammers mostly collected data from these source and send mail to all mail using software at once.

[CryptSafe]

This scam is obvious to anyone who has experience but we can say trust wallet can record your private keys and steal them at any time they want. It is true that they have not done that yet, but anything is possible. I'm surprised how they got your email address and made sure that you downloaded the trust wallet. In general, your wallet should be in separate devices from the Internet and from anything related to CEXs.

I don't know if the problem was from trust wallet because trust wallet has nothing to do with email but I feel the mail might be from one of this scamners out their, I still wonder what does trust wallet has to do with email.  People just need to be careful with their wallet because the level at which scam is going is beyond the imagination of the human reasoning . Scamners are already aware that lots of users are making use of trust wallet ,  it could be a random mail that was sent to lot of users using the trust wallet for hodling Bitcoin and other crypto.

There is every tendency that out of 10 users you encounter as a Crypto enthusiast virtual all of them or minimum of 8 of them are using trust wallet. So therefore there is every possibility that they the scammers can send such mails out to possible crypto related mails to see if they could try their luck in gaining access into people's account. This could also happen whenever there is a hack on third parties holding custody of exchanges details and others as well. So I am not surprised seeing such mail in my box and it was sent to the right place where it belongs as to indicate it is a scam.

All I could say is that every one should be careful the links they click on their mail because it can be very porous and dangerous as well as any mistake made would cost them their assets and other vital information that are sensitive to protect.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

I have been using Trust Wallet for a long time now, but for one day it has not requested that I add my email, so I am even wondering how they managed to get your email, which is still enough reason to believe that it was a scam. Although I did not receive such an email, even if I had seen anything like that, I would just know it was a scam and nothing else. Lately, I have migrated from using Trust Wallet to using BlueWallet because I learned that Trust Wallet is not even rated as one of the best and most secure mobile Bitcoin wallets to use. In the past, I have received countless notifications from the trust wallet app, and they would always ask me to link my wallet somewhere and claim some tokens for airdrop sake, which I usually don't agree to receiving those their free bullshit token.

[albon]

There is every tendency that out of 10 users you encounter as a Crypto enthusiast virtual all of them or minimum of 8 of them are using trust wallet. So therefore there is every possibility that they the scammers can send such mails out to possible crypto related mails to see if they could try their luck in gaining access into people's account. This could also happen whenever there is a hack on third parties holding custody of exchanges details and others as well. So I am not surprised seeing such mail in my box and it was sent to the right place where it belongs as to indicate it is a scam.

All I could say is that every one should be careful the links they click on their mail because it can be very porous and dangerous as well as any mistake made would cost them their assets and other vital information that are sensitive to protect.

Trust Wallet, Metamask, and other famous wallets and exchange platforms, and I can say that all cryptocurrency investors in general for all wallets and platforms are targeted. These messages are sent randomly to them, and unlucky and inexperienced is the one who trusts his email messages and clicks on the phishing link and provides them with sensitive access information to his wallet, connects his wallet to their traps, or sends them his own KYC documents "Without knowing that decentralized wallets do not require KYC from their customers" or download any files without checking the sender's email, or by not conducting his research to find out the sincerity of the message, it is better not to trust at all in email messages, whether it is a new email that is not disclosed to the public, because if the person is lazy or unexpert in recognizing the legitimacy and sincerity of the message then he will be hacked and stolen at the push of a button.

[CryptSafe]

There is every tendency that out of 10 users you encounter as a Crypto enthusiast virtual all of them or minimum of 8 of them are using trust wallet. So therefore there is every possibility that they the scammers can send such mails out to possible crypto related mails to see if they could try their luck in gaining access into people's account. This could also happen whenever there is a hack on third parties holding custody of exchanges details and others as well. So I am not surprised seeing such mail in my box and it was sent to the right place where it belongs as to indicate it is a scam.

All I could say is that every one should be careful the links they click on their mail because it can be very porous and dangerous as well as any mistake made would cost them their assets and other vital information that are sensitive to protect.

Trust Wallet, Metamask, and other famous wallets and exchange platforms, and I can say that all cryptocurrency investors in general for all wallets and platforms are targeted. These messages are sent randomly to them, and unlucky and inexperienced is the one who trusts his email messages and clicks on the phishing link and provides them with sensitive access information to his wallet, connects his wallet to their traps, or sends them his own KYC documents "Without knowing that decentralized wallets do not require KYC from their customers" or download any files without checking the sender's email, or by not conducting his research to find out the sincerity of the message, it is better not to trust at all in email messages, whether it is a new email that is not disclosed to the public, because if the person is lazy or unexpert in recognizing the legitimacy and sincerity of the message then he will be hacked and stolen at the push of a button.

Your point is very clear sir. Most of such messages are really tricky and in some cases,newbies are trapped in them as they have no knowledge about them. It is generally known that decentralized wallets are self custodial wallets that needs no KYC or otherwise to verify or validate a wallet but for the fact that it is too real to be real, the victims are likely newbies out of their curiosity to know which way forward, they fall in and expose themselves either by responding with their documents or leaking their seed phrase as the novice they are. AS you have said, laziness is another factor that causes most of these hacks. The victims are too lazy to just take some few minutes to do some research or surf the internet to know what is obtainable before attempting whatever they have received via mail.
Self consciousness and alertness plays a good role in being alert and vigilant to protecting your assets. One must take some steps forward to do the needful by taking time to do some research if they are not really clear with whatever comes their way which they feel is not secured enough for them to take decision. 

[PX-Z]

All kind of wallet not only trustwallet atually. I received messages the same like that with different wallet like metamask, ledger, exodus, sometimes electrum lmao. I usually found them on spam folder although there are some who got filtered out, some of them have google docs attached and make them not go to spam for some reasons.

[CryptSafe]

All kind of wallet not only trustwallet atually. I received messages the same like that with different wallet like metamask, ledger, exodus, sometimes electrum lmao. I usually found them on spam folder although there are some who got filtered out, some of them have google docs attached and make them not go to spam for some reasons.

I do not make the mistake clicking any of such mail when ever scammers send them. Already they get filtered and sent to my junk box which indicates that those mails are not trusted. There was a period I click on one of them and immediately it dawned on me that the mail was a possible scam mail I stopped it immediately. Guess what? I checked my browser to see the for myself I noticed some strange link with codes on my browser which possibly means it was a possible malware to infiltrate my device as to grant the hackers access to my details. After that I decided not to click on any mail of such nature again.