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RE: Scam Alert - Fake Email Claims MyEtherWallet Was Hacked.

in #scams7 years ago

In this case, the scammers like Storj also are out in the open impersonating well-known figures in the cryptocurrency community or the tech world, such as Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, Elon Musk, and John McAfee. The scammers often reply to tweets from the real accounts they are impersonating, in an apparent attempt to catch distracted users who might not notice that the Twitter handle is different, or that the account lacks a verified checkmark.

If someone visited these links and checked the Ethereum addresses they advertise. If someone clicks on the short URLs, they are taken to a page that looks like this:

Everyone should be very careful about these scams their phising are about similar.A Big Thanks to @gregory-f Who always make scam alaert post in this steem community.By doing this you are helping lot of people in this community.

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