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Bitrace: Interpretation of fake Twitter phishing accounts and how to prevent

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Bitrace With the arrival of the airdrop season, Web3 users have ushered in a golden harvest. At the same time, they have also become a big prey of criminal gangs in the crypto dark forest. Bitrace noticed that some criminals used fake Twitter accounts to conduct phishing fraud. They published a large number of false airdrop claim links in the comment area of official Twitter accounts, induce users to click and try to receive tokens. Once users are careless, they may suffer financial losses. Under this background, “highly imitated Twitter fishing scam”, as a representative fishing industrialization crime on social media platform, poses a serious threat to users’ capital security by virtue of its highly organized and large-scale operation characteristics. Twitter, a new arena for fraud activities Over the past few months, Bitrace have received help from several victims who have been stolen after clicking the “airdrop claim link” on Twitter. These links are actually phishing links. Take t...

Fake Ethereum Denver website linked to notorious phishing wallet

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Hackers continue to create fake Web3-enabled websites to fleece unsuspecting victims’ browser-based wallets, with ETHDenver being the latest victim. A fake website of the popular Ethereum Denver conference is the latest phishing target of a red-flagged smart contract that has stolen over $300,000 worth of Ether (ETH). The popular conference saw its website duplicated by hackers this week in order to trick users into connecting their MetaMask wallets. According to Blockfence, which identified the fraudulent website, the smart contract has accessed more than 2,800 wallets and stolen over $300,000 over the past six months. Another day, another scam. This time the scammer targeted the @EthereumDenver website. Blockfence is here to protect you and fight scammers together: The scam contract was marked as "High Risk" by our ML algorithm and our partners at @GoplusSecurity pic.twitter.com/Jdtoz2Bgu4 — Blockfence (@blockfence_io) February 20, 2023 ETHDenver also issued a not...