I just got spam through a website contact form with something similar. Not seen it before, then I open lemmy and click this post and here it is again. Weird.
Is there a potential security risk trying to add this seed phrase to check it?
Nah, but there’s not much point either. Basically, you’ll see there’s probably a few thousand dollars sitting there, apparently ripe for the taking. However, to transfer the funds to another wallet, you’ll have to pay a transaction fee. The way the wallet is set up, two other wallets must approve any outgoing transactions, resulting in your transaction attempt failing, while the scammers snag the fee.
Honestly, it’s a scam scamming thieves. I’m not even that mad, lol.
Someone mind explaining this shit? It’s about the 5th time I’ve seen this spam, whats the goal?
The scam is that you have to deposit funds before you can withdraw the money, when you deposit money it’s taken out automatically to go to the scammer
More details here:
https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/cryptowallet-free-seed-phrase-scam/52810/
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I just got spam through a website contact form with something similar. Not seen it before, then I open lemmy and click this post and here it is again. Weird.
Is there a potential security risk trying to add this seed phrase to check it?
Nah, but there’s not much point either. Basically, you’ll see there’s probably a few thousand dollars sitting there, apparently ripe for the taking. However, to transfer the funds to another wallet, you’ll have to pay a transaction fee. The way the wallet is set up, two other wallets must approve any outgoing transactions, resulting in your transaction attempt failing, while the scammers snag the fee.
Honestly, it’s a scam scamming thieves. I’m not even that mad, lol.
Also curious… 🤔