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Board Service Discussion (Altcoins)
Re: New metamask wallet scam
by
wiggi
on 01/04/2022, 19:33:29 UTC

https://twitter.com/MetaMask/status/1508906886610911233?s=20&t=Rm6oIm-IJdZqzT7u74nyJQ
"⚠️ PSA: There’s a new scam making the rounds - fake "mining" sites that ask you to join a "node.”

The site will attempt to connect to your wallet and get you to approve unlimited access to your tokens.
The second one is pretty bad, if I would get this notification while having a wallet unlocked in metamask with USDT in it, maybe I'd click automatically on "Approve".

Nothing can be done about it, Metamask (or a web browser) can't whitelist URLs. Users must know what they must know, things like "don't have critical and unnecessary stuff open in a web browser at the same time, browser extensions can read everything in the browser even while not visibly active at the moment, and metamask is a piece of software that doesn't know my email". (And if it knows my IP or my other Eth addresses then this is my own fault.)