Difference between revisions of "Direct message scams"

|User of the protocol comes to a group chat/discord server asking for some technical help. Scammer is monitoring the chat and DMs the victim offering to help. In most cases asks to provide a seed phrase, a private key or to asks a user to share a screen leading to exposure of the private keys.

|Victim receives a message about a protocol upgrade from a scammer pretending to be a notifications bot, who then directs the victim to install some kind of malware