Safety and scamsBeginner
Fake support accounts
Scammers posing as support who message you after you ask for help in public.
- What it means
- They send a link to "verify" your wallet or ask for your seed phrase, which gives them your coins.
- What to watch
- A message you did not start, a look-alike handle (a zero instead of an "o"), and any request for a link, a signature or your seed phrase.
- How Compass-Alpha uses it
- Background only; not used in any figure on Compass-Alpha.
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