2025-12-30 10:27:30

Recently, security researchers exposed a serious scam case: someone impersonating customer service of a leading compliant platform, active on Telegram and other social media, using social engineering techniques to target users, and has already successfully stolen $2 million.

The tricks used in these scams are nothing new—obtaining trust through fake customer service identities,诱导 users to share private keys or seed phrases, or pretending to be the platform to request account information.

How to prevent? Remember a few key rules: First, official customer service will never ask you for passwords, seed phrases, or private keys directly; second, if you have concerns, log in directly to the official website or app to contact customer service, don’t trust strangers in private chats; third, store large amounts of funds in hardware wallets, and keep only necessary liquidity in exchange accounts.

Being targeted by such scammers is not an isolated case. As more people participate in the Web3 space, scammers are becoming smarter. Stay vigilant and don’t wait until you suffer a big loss to regret.

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GasWastingMaximalist

· 12h ago

2 million USD? I knew there are still people who haven't read the group announcement... These scams happen every year, can't you do some homework before entering? --- Hardware wallets are really the only way out. Is there really something wrong with the brains of people who store so many coins on exchanges? --- I directly block those "official customer service" accounts that add me on Telegram. It's hilarious how they try to pretend to be legit. --- Wait, 2 million? Scammed that much at once? It clearly shows that some people are just too greedy and brainless. --- How can anyone voluntarily give out their private keys? Isn't that just asking for it? --- So Web3 is really a race between phishing and anti-phishing tools. The victims are always the big fools. --- This kind of scam actually tests human nature. Unfortunately, most people fail.

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CryptoCross-TalkClub

· 12h ago

Laughing to death, 2 million USD, this scammer earns more than I do from my cross talk --- Both private keys and mnemonic phrases, this combo punch of scammers is even more fierce than project founders fleeing --- Hardware wallets are the real cold wallets, don’t keep your nest egg in exchange accounts --- Strangers in Telegram daring to show private keys as soon as they start chatting, how strong is this kind of rookie --- First lesson in prevention: even your mom wouldn’t ask you for your password, let alone fake customer service --- More and more people are entering Web3, and scammers are also getting more active. This ecosystem is truly a "Creative Workshop" --- 2 million USD was scammed away, the problem is they’ll try to scam again next month. The scammer’s business is even more volatile than the coin price

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GasWaster

· 12h ago

bruh 200万刀？that's literally what i spent on failed txs last month lmao... anyway yeah never give your keys to randoms on tg, this ain't rocket science fr

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TokenomicsTrapper

· 12h ago

lmao 2M gone just like that... honestly if you're still falling for the "send me your seed phrase bro" in 2024 you deserve what's coming. read the contract next time

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