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Beware: TON ecosystem plagued by phishing activities

With the rise of Telegram’s The Open Network (TON) ecosystem, it is hardly a surprise that it is increasingly becoming the target of malicious actors looking for (and often finding) a way to get their hands on other people’s private information and assets – with a particular rise in various phishing methods. As it happens, the founder of blockchain security firm SlowMist, Yu Xian, a.k.a. Mr. Cos , has warned about the growing amount of phishing attacks in the TON ecosystem , as phishing links circulate in groups on Telegram, targeting users’ TON wallets, according to an X post on June 24. Indeed, Mr. Cos explained that: Picks for you Arizona's most active senator in stock trading; Mark Kelly's net worth revealed 3 hours ago ...

Investor loses $4.5m in USDT phishing scam

An unfortunate crypto investor has reportedly been swindled out of a staggering $4.46 million in a phishing scam involving Tether (USDT). According to blockchain data from Etherscan, the funds were initially withdrawn from a Kraken crypto exchange wallet and later transferred to an address ending in “ACa7.” Blockchain security firm PeckShield has identified this address as belonging to a phishing scammer. #PeckShieldAlert The address 0x2175…f7D9 got scammed for 4.46M $USDT Victim's address: 0x2175c0082d052872501f7fe54e1aC59858aaf7D9 Scammer's address: 0xAbb07822F471773Ff00b9444308ceEB7cf0dACa7 pic.twitter.com/Ny9CIrkBxw — PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) September 21, 2023 Scam Sniffer, another platform that alerts users to blockchain scams, indicated on Sept. 20 that the funds were directed to an address associated with a fraudulent Coinone crypto mining exchange. someone withdrew $4.46 million from Kraken to a fake Coinone crypto-mining exc...