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Hello Windice community!
I would always suggest that you keep your Windice account secure.
Click on your Windice profile picture, click on settings, or access the page by visiting this link - https://windice.io/cabinet/settings
, and Set Two-Factor authentication. This is the most important thing to keep your account secured. The number of social enginering scams has been increasing lately.
Binance has warned its users about scammers after a victim lost $91 million in a similar attack.
On August 21, crypto investigator ZachXBT reported that one user lost $91 million in Bitcoin (BTC) to a social engineering scam.
According to the investigator, the attack, which happened on August 19, was a social engineering scam. Scammers impersonated both the victim’s crypto exchange and hardware wallet support via text messages. They used this fabricated trust to get the victim to share critical information, which gave the attackers control over the funds.
According to Binance, attackers send unsolicited text messages to users, pretending to be from the exchange. Typically, these scams try to make it seem that the user’s account is at risk.
For instance, the messages will warn users that a new device from an unknown location has logged into their accounts. Similarly, the text messages also warn about supposed transfers.
You can read the news here: https://crypto.news/binance-warns-of-social-engineering-sms-scam-after-91m-bitcoin-theft/
It is important for the Windice users to keep their account secured with 2FA.
Sometimes, I cannot help but think that these kinds of people actually deserve the loss. How do they stay calm after keeping their hard-earned money on a centralized exchange? Moreover, how the hell do they fall for scammers? People should know that the exchange employees would never reach you and won't ask for any information such as passwords, seed phrases, private keys, or any personal information.
All an exchange employee could ask for is your email address so they can find your account; that's it. But as I said, the employees would never reach the customers. If anyone reach you saying they are employee of an exchange and they need some information, they are scammers!
I would always suggest that you keep your Windice account secure.
Click on your Windice profile picture, click on settings, or access the page by visiting this link - https://windice.io/cabinet/settings
, and Set Two-Factor authentication. This is the most important thing to keep your account secured. The number of social enginering scams has been increasing lately.
Binance has warned its users about scammers after a victim lost $91 million in a similar attack.
On August 21, crypto investigator ZachXBT reported that one user lost $91 million in Bitcoin (BTC) to a social engineering scam.
According to the investigator, the attack, which happened on August 19, was a social engineering scam. Scammers impersonated both the victim’s crypto exchange and hardware wallet support via text messages. They used this fabricated trust to get the victim to share critical information, which gave the attackers control over the funds.
According to Binance, attackers send unsolicited text messages to users, pretending to be from the exchange. Typically, these scams try to make it seem that the user’s account is at risk.
For instance, the messages will warn users that a new device from an unknown location has logged into their accounts. Similarly, the text messages also warn about supposed transfers.
You can read the news here: https://crypto.news/binance-warns-of-social-engineering-sms-scam-after-91m-bitcoin-theft/
It is important for the Windice users to keep their account secured with 2FA.
Sometimes, I cannot help but think that these kinds of people actually deserve the loss. How do they stay calm after keeping their hard-earned money on a centralized exchange? Moreover, how the hell do they fall for scammers? People should know that the exchange employees would never reach you and won't ask for any information such as passwords, seed phrases, private keys, or any personal information.
All an exchange employee could ask for is your email address so they can find your account; that's it. But as I said, the employees would never reach the customers. If anyone reach you saying they are employee of an exchange and they need some information, they are scammers!
