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.
I wanted to add something about fake links. It used to be easy to spot them with typosquatting, like "faacebook" instead of "facebook" or weird domain names like "metamask.cc." But now, scammers are getting sneaky with punycode or homoglyphs , those are tricks that make letters look the same but are actually different. like this "coinbase.com" vs "ϲοіɴʙɑse.com" . It's not always obvious, so you really gotta watch out and don't click on anything from shady sources. Better safe than sorry!
Oh, and like others have said, it's smart to have a separate device that's squeaky clean and only for important stuff like banking or crypto. That way, you're less likely to get tricked by a bad link.