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CLICKING ON PHISHING LINKS (visiting fake websites)

It's good to be back talking about this, so let's learn some more today. Shall we?

What Is Phishing?
A phishing website (sometimes called a "spoofed" site) tries to steal your account password or other confidential information by tricking you into believing you're on a legitimate(right) website. You could even land on a phishing site by mistyping a URL (web address).

Fraudsters send fake emails or set up fake web sites that mimic Binance sign-in pages (or the sign-in pages of other trusted exchanges, such as Bitmex or Okex and so on) to trick you into disclosing your user name and password. This practice is sometimes referred to as "phishing" because the fraudster is "fishing" for your private account information. Typically, fraudsters try to trick you into providing your user name and password so that they can gain access to an online account. Once they gain access, they can use your personal information to commit identity theft, read your email, and lock you out of your online account by changing your password, then transfer all your crypto assets.

Sad right? 😢

If you receive an email (or instant message) from someone you don't know directing you to sign in to a website, be careful! You may have received a phishing email with links to a phishing website.

Don't be too quick to click on links shared by people you don't really know or feel you can trust.

Just of recent, I received a message from a friend on facebook and the message goes thus "Emmanuel Jacobz Hey! Is that video yours?"
The message came with a thumbnail that made it look like a YouTube video and a link was embedded in it, that leads to phishing site pretending to be a YouTube link, although I knew it was a phishing site, I had to click on it to see what would be their requirements, talk about curiosity, aren't we all? 😀, so I clicked on it and it required that I logged into my facebook account, I laughed, because I knew what they were up-to.

We know these things 😀. It is important that you're aware of their modus operandi.

But it is quite sad that many people, because of ignorance were victims already, I later learnt that the person that sent me the link was already a victim of that, her account was hacked and the fraudster was the one who sent me the phishing link after gaining access to here Facebook account.

These things are becoming quite rampant, we should try to show more introspection.

clicking on most links people do share on social media asking you to claim data bundles, airtime and other related stuffs is very dangerous, because most of these links will not necessarily require you to login into any account but clicking on them will grant them access to your device, and will cause your device to misbehave.

Please take necessary precautions.. It's hurtful when people try to rob people of what they worked tirelessly for. It's a sad world where people don't want to put in work and are desirous to reap where they didn't sow.

I wouldn't want you to be a victim, so it's important you take these things into consideration.
📌 Be very careful lest you be fooled by a site that looks real. It's easy for phishers to create websites that look like the genuine article, complete with the logo and other graphics of a trusted website.

Clicking on phishing links does not go without side effects on cryptocurrency transactions.
If you have clicked on any of these links before now, your device is at risk and you're liable to send crypto assets to the wrong wallet address.
Make sure you carefully check the wallet address before and after copying them, and check again before transferring any crytpo assets because they can automatically be replaced by fraudsters immediately after you have copied and you get to notice after sending coins, that you were sending to the wrong wallet address.
Resetting your device to its factory settings can protect you from this.

Just before I am done for today, take this Important notice:
📌If you're unsure about a website, do not sign in. The safest thing to do is to close and then reopen your browser, and then type the URL into your browser's URL bar. Typing the correct URL is the best way to be sure you're not redirected to a spoofed site.

On my next post, I will be talking about "USING OF FAKE EXCHANGE". I'm hoping to see you then but for today, kindly let me know if you have learnt something today in the comment section.

Thank you!

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My name is Emmanuel Jacobz

I'm a crypto trader and investor.

In 2016, I learnt about cryptocurrency and began trading. Passionate about making money, I jumped into buying the wrong coins, joined ponzi schemes and other get rich quick schemes. I made some money, I lost a lot as well.

I don't like doing things from a place of ignorance, so I paid someone to guide me through. This proved futile as I lost more than 50% of my portfolio in an interval of one month.

With an undeniable passion to learn, I met an expert and enrolled on his platform, after a few weeks, I was able to recover my loss and today I'm not regreting the bold step I took.

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might even be foreign to experts.

So here:
10 mistakes you must avoid as a crypto trader

1. Using the wrong wallet
2. Failure to back up your private keys
3. Clicking on phishing links
4. Using fake exchange
5. Trading of sh*tcoins
6. Absence of a trading strategy
7. Not knowing when to enter or exit a trade
8. Being greedy
9. Trading pump and dump
10. FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) and FUD (Fear Of Uncertainty And Doubt).

See you in all these series

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