Greed, fear, carelessness. These are the three areas that crypto scammers are exploiting in order to part you from your crypto. Cybersecurity analyst Serpent reveals the most popular scams out in the wild today.
The analyst, who has 253,400 followers on Twitter, is the founder of artificial intelligence and community-powered crypto threat mitigation system, Sentinel.inexperienced crypto users through the use of copycat websites, URLs, accounts, hacked verified accounts, fake projects, fake airdrops and plenty of malware.
“Simply put, they attempt to target people who have already been scammed, and claim they can recover the funds.” This was seen in action after the multimillion-dollar exploit affecting Solana wallets earlier this month, with Heidi Chakos, the host of the YouTube channel Crypto Tips, warning the community to watch out forAnother strategy also leverages recent exploits. According to the analyst, the Fake Revoke.Cash Scam, tricks users into visiting a phishing website by warning them that their crypto assets may be at risk, using a “state of urgency” to get users to click the malicious link.
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