01-28-2023, 02:14 AM
Anatomy of a Murder; What getting scammed actually looks like.
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I have been messing around with crypto for about 2 years now and just yesterday got robbed of a bunch of RAY and SOL. I should have known better, but I figured I would spell out what happened to me so a noob might avoid the same mistakes.</p> <p>So we all have heard this 'Do not ever give out your keys'. I know that one, but a clever little bugger still got me.</p> <p>I got onto my solflare extension to check in on my ORCA holdings and did not see them (don't worry, they were just sitting at another wallet). Anyway I got onto the Orca Discord channel for some help.</p> <p>Being new to discord, I typed in my dilemma. Really I think I just sent up a large red balloon that I might be a potential mark. So in the public chat one of the dev team responds and I have a brief and public back and forth with him/her. I can see they are on the dev team because their avatar and screen name are displayed on the right hand column as one of the dev team. Figured I was pretty safe to talk to them.</p> <p>Get a DM from the same avatar as I am talking in the public chat, so I figured he/she wanted to take our help session into the DM department so we can hash out what went wrong.</p> <p>Sends me a link that looks legit <a href="https://solflare-ext.com">https://solflare-ext.com</a> and says to click on that link and reenter seed phrase.</p> <p>A-ha, I know better than to click on the link so I enter the address in on my own in a browser. Looks like a totally legit solflare website. I enter my precious seed phrase, hit enter and nothing happens.</p> <p>Look back and the person (Russian dick/3rd world scammer/neighbor next door to me), has deleted our DM with the link in it.</p> <p>7 minutes later they empty out that wallet through the Radium app. I was watching in real time as my values went to zero.</p> <p>Here is what I should have seen, yes it was the same avatar but now I see they have been a member since 1/23/23 and not 2015 like the real dev team member.</p> <p>I new enough to never give a person my seed phrase or to click on their version of a link, but I still got tricked by a thief waiting on the discord with access to a good looking fake website.</p> <p>This is what my scam looked like. Knowledge is power kids. Mainstream adoption will not happen until we are relatively immune to these problems.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/OthalaFehu"> /u/OthalaFehu </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/10mn7hr/anatomy_of_a_murder_what_getting_scammed_actually/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/10mn7hr/anatomy_of_a_murder_what_getting_scammed_actually/">[comments]</a></span>
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I have been messing around with crypto for about 2 years now and just yesterday got robbed of a bunch of RAY and SOL. I should have known better, but I figured I would spell out what happened to me so a noob might avoid the same mistakes.</p> <p>So we all have heard this 'Do not ever give out your keys'. I know that one, but a clever little bugger still got me.</p> <p>I got onto my solflare extension to check in on my ORCA holdings and did not see them (don't worry, they were just sitting at another wallet). Anyway I got onto the Orca Discord channel for some help.</p> <p>Being new to discord, I typed in my dilemma. Really I think I just sent up a large red balloon that I might be a potential mark. So in the public chat one of the dev team responds and I have a brief and public back and forth with him/her. I can see they are on the dev team because their avatar and screen name are displayed on the right hand column as one of the dev team. Figured I was pretty safe to talk to them.</p> <p>Get a DM from the same avatar as I am talking in the public chat, so I figured he/she wanted to take our help session into the DM department so we can hash out what went wrong.</p> <p>Sends me a link that looks legit <a href="https://solflare-ext.com">https://solflare-ext.com</a> and says to click on that link and reenter seed phrase.</p> <p>A-ha, I know better than to click on the link so I enter the address in on my own in a browser. Looks like a totally legit solflare website. I enter my precious seed phrase, hit enter and nothing happens.</p> <p>Look back and the person (Russian dick/3rd world scammer/neighbor next door to me), has deleted our DM with the link in it.</p> <p>7 minutes later they empty out that wallet through the Radium app. I was watching in real time as my values went to zero.</p> <p>Here is what I should have seen, yes it was the same avatar but now I see they have been a member since 1/23/23 and not 2015 like the real dev team member.</p> <p>I new enough to never give a person my seed phrase or to click on their version of a link, but I still got tricked by a thief waiting on the discord with access to a good looking fake website.</p> <p>This is what my scam looked like. Knowledge is power kids. Mainstream adoption will not happen until we are relatively immune to these problems.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/OthalaFehu"> /u/OthalaFehu </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/10mn7hr/anatomy_of_a_murder_what_getting_scammed_actually/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/10mn7hr/anatomy_of_a_murder_what_getting_scammed_actually/">[comments]</a></span>