Beware of Increasingly Sophisticated Malware Infection Attempts

[BitSwapNow]

Dont download and run unknown files... use virustotal or any.run to check "unpopular" applications.

Dont sign transactions or connect web3 wallets such as metamask, trust wallet ect to unknown websites.

Do your due diligence, double check urls, cross check from here or social medias. Even when discords or twitter make announcements wait and cross check sometimes even those platforms get hacked and people use them to make announcement to fraudulent or malicious links that steal your funds.

Basically always think before you make a move with your crypto.

Again as many users said if you have large funds its best to keep them on a separate device that's not used for daily internet activities such as gaming ,downloading social media ect.

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[Franctoshi]

I was intrigued by a scam which consists in revealing its mnemonic phrase on a forum, on twitter or other.
So I installed one of this wallet which indeed has funds. I observed what was happening and asked for explanations (to a bitcointalker): there are erc20 tokens in a wallet for example, but to transfer them you need fees. The people who install this fraudulent wallet send the fees which are instantly scanned and sent to another wallet. This is really very clever.
I would like to understand better how it works. From what I understood, the scammers use some kind of robot to instantly send the fees elsewhere.

Yes, you said the truth, almost the same experience as mine, those guys are very smart and are on the ground standby immediately they got a victim to move any funds in the wallet they got access to , but I can't really say if they are using a robot to run that shit. Even recently I have been receiving a phishing link via email, I don't take time to delete them when I see any of those links.

[Ubakama]

My friend's account got swiped with keyboard malware virus. Just coz he did copy and paste. This scams ain't funny

[God bless u]

Yes the points you mentioned are very technical and clear but the last one is the key to the door of a safe trading era. You have to keep a device for daily activities that has no link with your device if trading it has a number of reasons.

Nowadays scamming has so much increased and the techniques are so much efficient that if you use a PC or mobile, it surely will be subjected to some malware. It has became almost impossible to avoid such kind of activities although anti malware companies are developing software but they're not meeting the requirements .So the best way to keep yourself safe is keep separate mobile for crypto use ans don't download unnecessary files and software.