Popular Browsers Like Google Fail to Catch Copycat Crypto Sites, Scams Make t...
As the digital asset economy grows popular and a number of crypto companies become well known, copycat scammers appear in greater numbers. There are a number of websites that are clones of the official web page from companies that provide mining device sales, wallets, full nodes, paper wallet tools, and popular trading platforms. Just recently, news.Bitcoin.com wrote a report on mining devices, and one of the links we found looked like it belonged to a reliable mining manufacturer, but the URL really went to a copycat site that looked identical to the original URL. People make mistakes....
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A new kind of cryptocurrency phishing scam scheme has been detected by Netskope, an online security company, that....