Fraudsters steal cryptocurrency and users’ personal data from the Discord chat platform under the guise of a BTC or ETH giveaway. This was reported by Kaspersky Lab researchers.
Potential victims are invited to register on a new exchange and receive cryptocurrency as a gift using a special code.
Data: Kaspersky Lab.
To complete registration, users are asked to top up the account by 0.02 BTC, or an equivalent amount in Ethereum or dollars. If they agree to these terms, the balance on the account indeed shows as positive, but withdrawing cryptocurrency from the platform is not possible, nor can the earlier deposit be withdrawn.
Data: Kaspersky Lab.
“Hackers may be building a database of crypto-asset owners for sale on the dark web,” suggested by Kaspersky Lab.
This suspicion is reinforced by the scammers’ demand that identification documents and photos bear no markings.
The fake exchange constantly changes names, one of them is withEREUM. The site looks convincing: it contains information on exchange rates, charts, an order book, trading history, support, and a multilingual interface. The ability to set up two-factor authentication also misleads.
Data: Kaspersky Lab.
Experts at Kaspersky Lab advise not to trust messages about free cryptocurrency giveaways and not to share personal information with unknown sites. Adjusting Discord privacy settings will also help avoid such offers.
Back in August 2020, hackers hijacked the YouTube account of popular Apple commentator John Prosser, renamed it to “NASA,” and began promoting a scam giveaway of the first cryptocurrency.
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