A Ethereum phishing scam netted attackers over $ 15,000 in just two hours.
I may be biased, but the way to deal with such
Ethereum phishing scam and other email phishing scams that pretend to be from the legitimate firm and actually lead to a dummy site, is by installing Scam Block Plus - a Chrome extension that detects untrusted websites.
Not exact matches
One of the wallets linked to the Bee Token
phishing scam sent
ethereum to a wallet associated with Giza, according to etherescan.io, a site that tracks all transactions on the
ethereum blockchain as shown in the diagram below.
This is exactly what was discovered by security researcher Wesley Neelen when a
phishing scam for the
Ethereum cryptocurrency landed in his inbox.
The
Ethereum network's ICOs alone have apparently resulted in considerable
phishing, Ponzi schemes, and other
scams, accounting for about 10 % of ICOs.
A recent example is a
phishing scam targeting the Bee Token ICO, resulting in a lot of stolen
Ethereum.
Three
ethereum addresses, two of which are confirmed to be part of the Bee Token
scam and one of which has only been confirmed to be related to
phishing schemes in general, show balances ranging from $ 100,000 to nearly $ 600,000.