Important Tips To Secure Your Crypto Holding: Beware Of Phishing Links #002
Hello great minds,
It is a wonderful opportunity to come before you all today to discuss on an issue if great importance in the cryptospace.
I believe you are all doing perfectly fine and are enjoying your activities in the community today.
In one of our discussions, we learnt about phishing links and some of the strategies being used to promote phishing links.
Today we shall be examining more, please stay tuned.
TECHNIQUES USED BY PHISHING LINKS
There are different techniques used to promote phishing links in the cryptospace today, and some of them will be explained below
- FEAR AND URGENCY:
One tactics used by phishing links is fear and urgency.
The scammers often attempt to instill fear and urgency in the minds of it's prey.
It always attempt to give users the impression that their account has been hacked and something urgent needs to be done about it.
When this sense of urgency is imbibed in the minds of the prey, they have no other option than to click on the link,and by doing so , they have successfully fallen prey to this scammers.
- INCENTIVES:
Incentives is another tactics being used to prey individuals into clicking phishing links.
The scammers make to good to be true promises and this drives users into clicking the link.
Most times, the scammers pretty on the greed of this individuals as they want to make a huge profit from a very little investment.
In other instances, they claim to host give-aways and inorder to claim this incentive, they are demanded to click on this phishing links, and henceforth, their devices becomes compromised.
- EMAIL SPOOFING:
Email spoofing is another tactics being used by scammers in the cryptospace.
Here they send mails to one's devices and make it appear like the mails are coming from legit sources.
This inturn deceive the prey and lead them into clicking the link.
CONCLUSION
We have further examined tactics being used by phishing links to scams users if their hard earned funds.
Understanding the tactics of this scammers will help protect our funds from being stolen by them.
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