According to the cryptocurrency security firm, most scams are carried out through fake Twitter accounts.
Security firm SlowMist published a detailed report focusing on increasing cryptocurrency scams. In this report, popular cryptocurrency projects 80% of comments on their posts are phishing scams While it is stated that it is intended for Popular altcoin projects with many followers It was emphasized that it was imitated:
We found that nearly 80% of comments on tweets from popular projects are occupied by phishing scam accounts. The high level of automation of these phishing groups and the generally low awareness of phishing among the crypto community leads to serious losses.
SlowMist stated that in groups created on Telegram, accounts that have been carefully studied in terms of the number of followers and similarity to the desired project are sold. Most of the accounts sold are related to the cryptocurrency industry He emphasized that it was.
Security firm covers entire cryptocurrency industry optimization of anti-phishing plugins It was stated that these findings would be of vital value to the community by encouraging more studies on the subject.
However, users were invited to review comments under posts of cryptocurrency projects twice before interacting with them.