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Topic
Board Electrum
Re: So I got scammed with the electrum wallet scam
by
Aveatrex
on 24/07/2019, 01:07:00 UTC
I don't have a screen shot, but directed me to electrumbay dot com
That's a phishing website
I'm sorry for your loss.If only you had used a hardware wallet for this significant amount you had

What kind of scam is this and how the hell did it happen?  

Electrum versions older than 3.3.4 are susceptible to phishing - https://electrum.org
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Don't know how you missed this as this information was already spread out in the entire community for a quite a long time now.

Yeah this is literally insane to have a malicious window pop inside the wallet and nothing is done to prevent it.If you are not experienced enough to have the reflex to verify the GDP signature or your anti-virus doesn't detect it you're basically screwed.Hell,at this point I don't trust desktop wallets anymore.