Phishing Scammers Strike Again Spoofing Ethereum Denver Website

The cryptocurrency industry has long been a target of phishing attacks, and it seems hackers are finding new and smarter ways to scam their victims.

This time, it was the website of an anticipated event that was completely spoofed in an attempt to trick victims out of their crypto.

• ETH Denver bills itself as the largest and longest-running ETH event in the world. This year, it will take place between February 24 and March 5.
• Conferences are often a hot spot for many people, and many of them tend to be newcomers who are not yet familiar with the dangers of the industry.
• This is what hackers have been trying to exploit recently, creating a completely new fake website that looks like the official ETH Denver website.
• The threat was detected by the cryptosecurity company. block fence.

Another day, another scam.

This time, the scammer targeted the Ethereum Denver website. Blockfence is here to protect you and fight scammers together: The scam contract was marked as “high risk” by our ML algorithm and partners.

Another day, another scam.
This time the scammer targeted the @EthereumDenver website. Blockfence is here to protect you and fight scammers together: The scam contract was marked as “High Risk” by our ML algorithm and our partners at @GoplusSecurity pic.twitter.com/Jdtoz2Bgu4

— Blockfence (@blockfence_io) February 20, 2023

• To this, the official ETH Denver Twitter account also issued a fake website warning notice.
• Phishing is not a small threat. Although newcomers and people without sufficient experience in key management are often the easiest targets, this does not mean that experts are safe.
• Just to the contrary, RTFKT COO Nikhil Gopalani, a person with vast experience in the field, was recently hacked and lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in NFTs.