Angler phishing scams — Learning from a real case

Angler phishing is a type of phishing attack that targets social media users.

The victim will be someone seeking help and the scammers, in most cases, will pretend to be customer service agents.

The scammers will try to convince the victim that they can help, but first, the victim would be asked to download and install some software, provide remote access to their computers, or provide login details…

A real angler phishing scam

Let’s look at a real case of someone having a problem, asking for help online, being scammed, and losing a significant amount of cryptocurrency.

We cannot help the victim anymore by preventing the scam or educating the victim, but we can learn from the situation.

Because the more you know, the better you will be prepared to avoid scammers and even prevent angler phishing scams from happening to someone else.

This person, as explained below, was looking for online help on a problem with a cryptocurrency hot wallet and was contacted by a scammer pretending to be a customer service agent.

After winning the trust, the scammer asked the victim to click on a link to a malicious website, where the unsuspected victim provided the wallet seed phrase.