Wallet scam email

[tech30338]

Sure, stupid. This is the classic phishing pattern: a real wallet team should never ask you to enter a seed phrase through a mail link.
But not everyone have the safest habit to ignore the email and verify any update only from a bookmark or the vendor’s official site.

This has been happening for a long time, and the only people who will get tricked are the people who are in crypto or the newbies they are the target, sadly they ended giving information that is not normally, just like you said they will not ask for it, but for the newboes who knew nothing its normal, if you are newbies this are the basics never click and never give seed to others.

[Sticky Bomb]

I stopped because I know if I put my seed phrase there, the scammers will see it and they will steal all my coins.

This scam is very old already, I do not think people should not know about it by now, but for the sake of our new members, I post this so that they can learn and know about this scam.

This is a very old format, but it is good for a reminder, my major concern is how your email got into the hands of the scammer in the first place, could it be that Coinomi database was compromised or they sold older and non-functional accounts data to the dark web? Or maybe a former employee who had access to these data from the onset utilizing it for his fraudulent activities?

[Kavelj22]

I stopped because I know if I put my seed phrase there, the scammers will see it and they will steal all my coins.

This scam is very old already, I do not think people should not know about it by now, but for the sake of our new members, I post this so that they can learn and know about this scam.

This is a very old format, but it is good for a reminder, my major concern is how your email got into the hands of the scammer in the first place, could it be that Coinomi database was compromised or they sold older and non-functional accounts data to the dark web? Or maybe a former employee who had access to these data from the onset utilizing it for his fraudulent activities?

I was thinking the same point. All what you said are possible scenarios. But in the actual case, I can't find other reports from Coinomi users reporting the same emails. Targeting a full mailing list from a compromised data based should have been infecting many people, so why none of them reported being assets stolen or warning others like OP did.

I wouldn't deny the possibility that OP is might be targeted by someone who knows hos email address, and also knows that he was a Coinomi user. It is highly expected if the person is using only one email for all his activities online. It is a commun mistake that all newbie do it at the beginning of their crypto journey.

[taufik123]

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I wouldn't deny the possibility that OP is might be targeted by someone who knows hos email address, and also knows that he was a Coinomi user. It is highly expected if the person is using only one email for all his activities online. It is a commun mistake that all newbie do it at the beginning of their crypto journey.

Now anyone's identity can be hacked easily and hackers get data from government websites that are hacked or websites that do KYC for everyone and that data is then traded.
There are many cases of data hacking and not just emails, full names, home addresses, phone numbers are all owned by hackers today.

So if only the email known by the hacker is very easy and not just 1 target they are targeting,
usually they broadcast on emails that seem to be still active and whoever opens or responds to him will continue to be the target victim.

Don't use the primary email as an email to surf the internet or an email used to follow Airdrops and such.
I always use my backup email (not the main email) for various random things on the internet, so it's not too risky.

[Cookdata]

I stopped because I know if I put my seed phrase there, the scammers will see it and they will steal all my coins.

This scam is very old already, I do not think people should not know about it by now, but for the sake of our new members, I post this so that they can learn and know about this scam.

This is a very old format, but it is good for a reminder, my major concern is how your email got into the hands of the scammer in the first place, could it be that Coinomi database was compromised or they sold older and non-functional accounts data to the dark web? Or maybe a former employee who had access to these data from the onset utilizing it for his fraudulent activities?

This is an old format, but people still fell for it. The OP might just be like other victims who were sent random emails just to get them to put their seed phrase. sometimes, you don't have to voluntarily let people know about your email, there are several websites that we have registered that were hacked, the personal informations are sold across telegram and darkweb, that's where scammers go there to send email to their target and where they get millions of active email, there will be atleast some users that will fall victim, not necessary Coinomi has to be aware of the scam.

I was thinking the same point. All what you said are possible scenarios. But in the actual case, I can't find other reports from Coinomi users reporting the same emails. Targeting a full mailing list from a compromised data based should have been infecting many people, so why none of them reported being assets stolen or warning others like OP did.

I wouldn't deny the possibility that OP is might be targeted by someone who knows hos email address, and also knows that he was a Coinomi user. It is highly expected if the person is using only one email for all his activities online. It is a commun mistake that all newbie do it at the beginning of their crypto journey.

The same coinomi that has turned to content creation on their social media post. There was a time Coinomi was one of the best alternative Bitcoin wallets for mobile, but they lost their steam. They are now focusing on posting Binance and exchanges instead of doing what they are best know for. Coinomi might not even be aware of these fraudalent activity. It can be any platform, the scammers set their target based on what users used, they can decide to use Electrum and some people might still be victim.

[Stable090]

The most funny thing I saw today is updating recovery phrase. It's like scammer pretending like bank officer call customer to get their card details. The most important thing in a wallet is recovery phrase which can never be updated.

It’s so funny, but some people are still going to fall for tricks like this most especially newbies. Most scammers are always targeting newbies because they believe they don’t have much knowledge about crypto space, and they can easily fall for their tricks. Someone that has been in the crypto industry for some time will have proper knowledge about recovery phrase, and they going to know that it can not be updated, just some newbies are just the ones that will fall for it.

We should know that scammers are still making money from the strategy, and thats the reason why they are still making use of it, that means people are still falling for it.

[Peanutswar]

This is commonly ive seen with the wallets, attackers trying to reach out the end users of the wallet which is keep me thinking how they will end up having the email address of the users so meaning is there are data breach with their system? Also seen this happen too with the Trezor which is OP is the same author. Scammers are sending scam messages to Trezor users. So far I didnt not yet encountered this kind of attack but hopefully I dont want, if ever one of the move I will do is to ignore because I dont have a transactions so I dont need to worry too much.

[HajiBagi]

The most funny thing I saw today is updating recovery phrase. It's like scammer pretending like bank officer call customer to get their card details. The most important thing in a wallet is recovery phrase which can never be updated.

It may look like funny to you but it’s not funny to me because some people will fall for this scam, some people who are not aware that it is a scam will put their seed phrase and do what the scammer say, the reason why i said that is because some newbie who are into bitcoin will not know that it is a scammer and think maybe the scammer wants to help them to do something to help them, although the scammer use an old method that some people will easily recognise but some people will not know that it is a scammer and mistakenly do what the scammer want.

We have seen how some of these newbies get scammed easily by just a simple mistake and how they are being controlled by the scammers, some newbies easily believe in anyone they meet online because they are very greedy and don’t realise that when you are holding a coin you should be very careful and be smart, for me I don’t see any method a scammer use as funny because they have use the same method to scam many people.