Trust wallet KYC verification Phishing mail. Beware!

[cafter]

Thank you OP for letting us know this type of scamming technic, scammers are too creative to scam people.
The email is very convincing for any newbie to click the link and enter personal details or fall as a victim to a phishing attack, I signed up on too many crypto related sites but never received emails like that
but now I will keep in mind about this because I click links in hurry by seeing the name of reputed company.If I were 3 years ago me when i was newbie then surely I would have clicked that link or fall as victim of this scam.

[jerry0]

So what exactly happens if you click on the link but don't enter your seed phrase or connect your trust wallet?


Is it possible just doing that could get your trust wallet or any wallet hacked on your laptop?  Say you have electrum in your laptop.  Is it possible just clicking on a link can cause your electrum account to be hacked?  What about a virus or malware?  What about a keylogger?  What about it turning on your laptop camera?



I heard if you click on a link, unless you type in the seed phrase or open the program or file, then nothing happens?  Or is that not true?  I read a while back it had something to do with as long as you don't open an exe file, then you are okay?  Or not?

[nakamura12]

That's a trap they will ask for a KYC verification and seed phrase and actually you can just move to other wallets with your seed phrase without KYC.

Deleting emails is not a good idea you will still receive emails from them if you just deleted them.
If I were you block who emails you and report it as spam to make sure you won't receive any suspicious email again from that email.

At least the email from the scammer is gone and we don't know that OP might forgot or something like that where OP accidentally clicked the link.  Not that I pointed OP as a careless person but as a possibility. I have some old emails I got and I didn't deleted it and it was a scam attempt but not about cryptocurrency though but still I forgot that it was a trap since it's been a long time since the time I received it and know that it is a scam attempt.

[Saint-loup]

Could someone share the link (without the hyperlink feature ofc)? I don't understand why they only ask KYC and not funds, is it a new kind of scam? I wonder if they know who has downloading this wallet and is using it. As OP said you don't need to give your email address when you install it or anytime when you are using it, so except a leak from Google Play, I don't see how they have been able to find those informations. Even when you use it in order to use Dex or other Web3 Dapps you don't need to handover your email address.

[2girls]

So what exactly happens if you click on the link but don't enter your seed phrase or connect your trust wallet?


Is it possible just doing that could get your trust wallet or any wallet hacked on your laptop?  Say you have electrum in your laptop.  Is it possible just clicking on a link can cause your electrum account to be hacked?  What about a virus or malware?  What about a keylogger?  What about it turning on your laptop camera?



I heard if you click on a link, unless you type in the seed phrase or open the program or file, then nothing happens?  Or is that not true?  I read a while back it had something to do with as long as you don't open an exe file, then you are okay?  Or not?

Mostly those links that we clicked and we don't know about them they just take out the pc's information or any device you are using and suddenly when they got the information and the access to all these information puts a person in danger.

Then mostly these wallets got hacked may be there are some data of a person who has stored in its email getting hacked and also if he has stored even in his pc but at some place like Microsoft office etc.

[Marvelman]

These emails screaming phishing scam! No way Trust Wallet's ever asking for personal data.  They don't care bout no KYC.  So if some rando pops into your inbox demanding your license and selfie, trash it.  Just a crook phishing for coins.  Don't click their bait.  Who knows what malware lurks behind those links? Save yourself the headache and delete delete delete.

[Sophokles]

I got one of those phishing mail. Not sure how they got the mail but it was already detected as a scam so i was not obviously ready to proceed with the mail anyway. But if a user understand how these multi-custodial wallet works then there is no way he will believe that he needs to do KYC for a non-custodial crypto wallet. That is why in that mail scammers tried to fool some people by telling them they were eligible for some kind of token rewards which isn't true. It's not that hard to detect phishing attempts.

[Kelward]

Thanks for bringing this to the limelight, the activities of scammers are increasing and becoming more sophisticate, impersonating individuals and organizations to scam their victims. It's really overwhelming, people needs to be properly informed, so they won't fall victims to theses criminals.

What attracted me to this thread is the mention of trust wallet, I thought that it's been compromised. I've been trying to send btc for something now through my trust wallet, and it keeps telling me transaction error, due to UTXO dust, it's very frustrating. Please I'll appreciate any help on how to remove this dust UTXO.