🚨Crypto Heist: Millions Vanished!🚨

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Them crypto prices, they shot up like a rocket on the Fourth of July, drawin’ in the low-down grifters and skimmers like flies to a honey pot. Security, well, it had holes big enough to drive a truck through, and these fellas, they knew just where to poke.

Phishing, the Newest Kind of Snake Oil

This fella, ZachXBT, calls himself a blockchain investigator, bless his heart. He dug around and found out these scammers were usin’ tricks, oh, slicker than a greased pig. Address poisonin’, wallet spoofin’—sounded like somethin’ out of a bad dream. They made fake addresses look just like the real McCoy. Folks, they just handed over their hard-earned bits and bytes to these coyotes. Ain’t that a kick in the teeth? 😠

Biggest fish they hauled in was 400 Bitcoin, worth near thirty-five million smackeroos, all from one poor soul’s Coinbase wallet. ZachXBT, he kept diggin’ and found more folks got took, ’bout forty-six million gone this month alone. Forty-six million! Enough to make a preacher swear. 😤

Coinbase Talkin’, But Is Anyone Listenin’?

Coinbase, they got their mouthpiece, Jaclyn Sales, Director of Communications, and she said they’re lookin’ into it. Said they’d never ask folks for login junk, API keys, or to send money. Any message doin’ that, she says, it’s a scam, plain and simple. Should be ignored, like a politician’s promise. 🤥

Seems Coinbase is the brand everyone’s pretendin’ to be, like wearin’ a borrowed suit that don’t fit. Meta got hit harder, but Coinbase is still gettin’ its fair share of these phishing shenanigans. Like shootin’ fish in a barrel, it is. 😒

So, how do you keep from gettin’ fleeced? Coinbase got some ideas:

First off, get yourself a dedicated email address just for your crypto business. Keep it separate, like your moonshine stash from your Sunday clothes. Keeps the riff-raff out.

Next, turn on that two-factor authentication (2FA). It’s like havin’ a second lock on the henhouse. They need more than one key to get in. Extra layer of protection, don’t you know. 👍

Then, set up an address allowlist. Only send money to folks you trust, like family, or your bootlegger. Stops the money from wanderin’ off to strange places. 😉

Lastly, stash your gold in Coinbase Vault. Need more than one signature to get it out, like a bank run by committee. Makes it harder for the low-lifes to get their mitts on your stash. 🤔

Follow these steps, and maybe, just maybe, you can sleep a little easier at night, knowin’ your bits and bytes are a bit safer. But in this world, there’s always a bigger rat waitin’ in the shadows. 😔

2025-03-31 19:49

Phishing, the Newest Kind of Snake Oil

Coinbase Talkin’, But Is Anyone Listenin’?

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