One constant fact that I've noticed since I got into crypto is that the moment a project or a company starts getting popular or begins to gain a huge follower base, it starts to attract scammers like Sugar to ants.
It honestly gets annoying after a while, I can't join a Telegram or Discord group without being DMed by a dozen of them, fake links flying here and there. A recent example is Bitget releasing a couple of articles to inform their users about phishing and a particular malicious browser extension named "AggrTrade". I've seen similar notifications from Binance, bybit also telling their users to be careful
Still, I guess we can only just remain careful to avoid falling victim to scammers after all there isn’t much that can be done. What have you guys been doing to keep your assets safe though? Drop some comments, let's learn.
Well that's basically a fact, not just telegram but it also happened very much on twitter. Scammers obviously wants wide audience, a projects who got a lot of attention is one of the tools of a scammer that they can use to scam people by imitating them and lure them into their objective which is scamming. This is why we can see constant reminder from projects and established platforms such as CEXs about the threat of scammers. Scamming industry is lucrative that's why we can see scammers everywhere especially on cryptospace so the best thing we can do is to repel them by using helpful tools that helps us into detecting them.
I'm personally using Defillama extension on my browser and it is really helpful to the fact that it can even detect phishing or fake websites.
We should also learn how to configure the settings on our social media and messaging channels like telegram, discord and twitter to unwanted people, in short scammers from sending messages to us or at least on our crypto social accounts.