You read crypto news on popular crypto news websites and you trust those news media. When you see any news on a reputed site, you will definitely act on it. Anything can happen in crypto and scammers can spread fake news in different ways to trick people into falling into their traps.
Scammers created a fake Blockworks website that looks exactly like the original one. People who visit the website somehow without checking the URL may think they are on a legitimate and real website. Scammers published the fake news of multimillion-dollar approvals exploit on Uniswap.
Criminal actors spread this news on Reddit by publishing it over there using compromised accounts. They hacked or somehow compromised those Reddit accounts. This news spreads quickly. People want to see what actually happened and do something to secure their crypto assets.
Scammers created a fake Etherscan website. If the potential victim visits that fake site and interacts with it, scammers may get access to their wallets and drain their funds. When victims realize that they have made a huge mistake, it will be too late to fix it. It is because hackers have already stolen their funds.
Hackers created these websites recently to deceive people and the potential victims will automatically fall into their traps. Scammers set up the tools that will do their job to steal money from victims. In this case, they bought the fake website domains recently to launch this attack. When you visit any site, do not just be convinced by seeing the site's outlook.
Another scammer created a fake Decrypt website. Again the intention is to trick people and steal their cryptocurrencies. Decrypt and Blockworks scammers are different persons. You can pay attention to the URL to make sure that you are on the right website. Before interacting with any site and connecting your wallet, be careful about that.
Scammers can drain your crypto wallet. So don't do something out of panic. Stay calm and then make your move to do anything in crypto.
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