Easy ways to avoid scams and phishing

[Lembo69]

Phishing is a type of fraud where scammers impersonate trusted service providers. They steal user information. Phishing scammers usually hack people's wallets by taking their personal information. Every year, more than 100,000 people fall victim to phishing scams.

How to stay safe from phishing:

• Do not click on any unknown link

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• Do not give personal information in emails or texts.
• Always keep your password strong.

The right rule to understand which email is fake is that most of the links or texts provided by phishing scams have spelling mistakes. If you check these, it is very easy to understand that it is a phishing scam.

Scammers usually send hasty or threatening emails or texts. For example:"Your wallet is at risk if you do not change your password now". Or they directly ask for OTP. Do not give your wallet information to unknown links.

The simplest and most effective rule of thumb for understanding phishing is that where there is urgency, fear, or greed, the likelihood of a scam is higher. Be as cautious as possible and keep your money and information safe.

[iBaba]

I believe the main reason why Phishing works on people is not necessarily because of the intelligence played in it because left to me there is not any serious intelligence work there but it works more on the emotions of people. They trick you to click on a link you are probably doubtful about but because the messages they creates fear or urgency that pushes them to act fast, somtimes they also capitalize on your ignorance or greed. Once you take your time, slow down and scrutinize any form of link or message requesting for your personal information or details before acting on it, then you will be safer than any other person who acts without having a good thoughts and selfless thoughts about things.

What these phishers if I can call them like that are doing is more of deception than any serious display of intelligence, meaning even someone less educated than you can deceive you with a Phishing link and trust me you will fall prey if you do not act like the smart person you probably claim.

[Shadiq]

The main capital of phishers is to force people to hurry by creating temptation and fear and to take advantage of that hurry.

The simplest advice to avoid phishing is not to rush and act calmly when receiving an unfamiliar message or call. If you receive a tempting offer, identify it as a fraud. This is not easy to do, many people still fall victim to phishing due to ignorance and lack of knowledge about phishing. Knowledge is very important, if there is no knowledge and awareness, then all advice is meaningless.

[Dechris_08]

Solid points, but one thing many beginners miss is that phishing isn’t only about links or emails.

Fake wallet apps, cloned websites, and even Google ads have drained more funds than typo-filled emails.

A simple habit that saves lives: bookmark official sites and never interact with crypto links outside those bookmarks.

[Mr Reporter]

Well for so many years on the crypto space I have learnt so much that the only thing that the Phishers scam make you to thrive on creating urgency, which they mostly are using this tactics for like this part Fear of Missing Out, which at same time it causes the limited-time offers, account suspension threats,
fear, greed, curiosity

It always you to think fast and it has pushed so many people to act fast without thinking, making them more vulnerable. Which as an individual we should watch out for such scam…

Just as you have made mention is to also make sure it  Verify sources before clicking links or sharing info because with having to check this it might cause some problems.

[Y3shot]

One thing about scam, is to hsve awareness,  understanding.  Many are scam victim because they only just have limited knowledge and scammers take advantage of their ignorance. Don't be tired to learn and to understand.  Seek for knowledge and it will be so difficult for scammmers to take advantage of you.

Another thing why scammers also get people is being very careless,  if you are careless yhst means you are attracting scammers to you. If you have knowledge and very careful on how you handle important details that belongs to you scammer will never get you.

[I_Anime]

This is the reason why having the right information is golden . The reason many people Dey fall as victim nah because dem nor really familiar with am before.

Like my friend that got scammed by a x account impersonating a wallet customer support . He fell as victim because he didn’t know much about phishing he may have heard of it but am not sure e knows how it works , but e endup learning the hard way .

Avoiding phishing is all about being smart, vigilant, and careful with your personal information Just like op said , I mind the kind of link you click , especially those that are into airdrop and giveaways in this crypto space.

[Ronsbit]

OP, you have a good topic of discussion here, which I believe is very much important to the local community. And from findings, phishing seems to be a major way scammers use to gain access to people's wallets because of the tricks and gimmicks they use to deceive people. This has led to many people losing their assets and funds because they received emails and information from lookalike websites and emails that they failed to verify before they engaged with them.

The few prevention measures and tips you have mentioned here would help keep people safe from being scammed, and also, the idea of keeping their keys safe is another issue, storing such information on your phone or device is not safe because anyone who has information and access to that device would also get the keys so it is not advisable to keep such information there. Write them don offline and store in a place where only have access to.

[PostQuantumBTC]

Phishing is a type of fraud where scammers impersonate trusted service providers. They steal user information. Phishing scammers usually hack people's wallets by taking their personal information. Every year, more than 100,000 people fall victim to phishing scams.

In Nigeria or worldwide? Just in Q2 of 2025, over 1.13 million phishing attackers were recorded.

Learn more on this link: https://deepstrike.io/blog/Phishing-Statistics-2025

How to stay safe from phishing:

• Do not click on any unknown link

.

• Do not give personal information in emails or texts.
• Always keep your password strong.

Strong password is good but it is not among about how to avoid phishing attack because the scammers do it in a way you will be the one that will hand over your coins. Avoid suspicious and unknown messages like call, text messages, emails and others means of communication.

Wrong password is very important, do not understand me wrongly.

[DiMarxist]

Phishing techniques has become one of the most common means that has been deployed by scammers to defraud people, just as you have highlighted there is need for everyone to make sure that before they click any link online they should make sure that such Link are trustworthy. We should not click any link that we see online, another thing is responding to messages which is threatening in nature such messages is a sign of phishing techniques. The only remedy to this is having the right knowledge and being aware of the dangers that exists online.

[coinlary]

Scammers usually send hasty or threatening emails or texts. For example:"Your wallet is at risk if you do not change your password now". Or they directly ask for OTP. Do not give your wallet information to unknown links.

The simplest and most effective rule of thumb for understanding phishing is that where there is urgency, fear, or greed, the likelihood of a scam is higher. Be as cautious as possible and keep your money and information safe.

Threatening emails and emails portraying " immediate action is required" are usually common with wallet scams, in the context phishing entirely it doesn't necessarily have to be that specifically but it's quite common because it puts their victim in panic stating thinking they might lose their money anytime soon while still playing into same .
Apart from that it can be anything, don't just trust any email you see in your inbox , always make thorough verification especially if you were not expecting any.
There's no problem with all you have mention anyway, but don't forget anyone can get fooled so whenever anyone fall into any kind of  similar state , it's very important to stay calm so as to make rational decisions.

[Odohu]

You have raised good points regarding ways to avoid scam for newbies, I can tell you for free that it is not only newbies that need this information because anything regarding security is never too old to learn. Scams are even getting more more sophisticated these days such that you will hardly know it is a scam until you have been scammed. Finally, the awareness in phishing is high now so scammers have upgraded to other means of getting their victim. To minimise the risk of these scams, we should practice self custody and the use of hardware wallets.

[icebar]

Nowadays, people are being cheated the most through various messages sent on WhatsApp and Telegram. When people receive a message, they click on the links without properly observing it and later they become victims of hacking the device. Now if someone tries to access the message coming from an unknown source without properly observing it, then he himself will be responsible for it. Because it is never possible to eradicate scammers in the world, but acquiring proper knowledge and skills and being alert on his own can protect himself from such traps.

You should also refrain from being greedy. There are many who are harmed due to greed. If a stranger sends a message and someone believes it and acts according to it, then he can be harmed.

Always keep the wallet password, seed phrase, in a secret place and do not saving it in any email or any online platform. No organization will ever provide first DM for support, so be aware if someone tries to scam you by using such an identity.