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Direct message (DM) scam, one of the most common types of [[crypto scams]], where attacker tries to socially engineer a victim to send them funds, extract information like wallet seed phrase/private key or install malware. Common on any social network or messaging platform, but mostly affected is Discord at the time of writing. | Direct message (DM) scam, one of the most common types of [[Crypto Scams|crypto scams]], where attacker tries to socially engineer a victim to send them funds, extract information like wallet seed phrase/private key or install malware. Common on any social network or messaging platform, but mostly affected is Discord at the time of writing. | ||
=== '''Types of direct message scams''' === | === '''Types of direct message scams''' === | ||
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|'''A "friendly" person''' | |'''A "friendly" person''' | ||
|Scammer is pretending to be friendly asking questions about crypto or NFTs but then drops a link to some website which either asks user to input their private key or asks to sign a message with their wallet which then results in a drain of funds | |Scammer is pretending to be friendly asking questions about crypto or NFTs but then drops a link to some website which either asks user to input their private key or asks to sign a message with their wallet which then results in a drain of funds | ||
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