Scam and Phishing ETH addresses on Whois0x

Régis
Whois0x
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2 min readMay 2, 2019
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Whois0x is a search engine where you can query about Ethereum address or social identities. It’s a tool to claim, understand and verify who owns an Ethereum address. View it as a cryptographically secured association of your Twitter, Github, Linkedin accounts, your website and your Ethereum address.

A full description can be found in Alice in Etherland, Whois0x?

A focus on collectibles can be found in Collectibles in Whois0x.io

This story is about scams addresses in the Ethereum space

Ethereum more than any other cryptocurrency is subject to scams and phishing attempt around all the community. When you’re about to transact with an address, do not trust, but verify it.

We made it simple. Drop the ethereum addresse in the search bar at Whois0x.io. More than 2,000 addresses are registered and it’s constantly updated.

Where is the information coming from?

Etherscamdb.info is community driven and it aims to provide accurate knowledge about past and active scams or phishing websites, addresses,.. As of today’s writing there are a total of 6,610 scams referenced, 839 active scams and 2,090 address registered in the database.

We provide an easy way to explore etherscamdb.info by Ethereum addresses.

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This address for example: 0x3841eb6910fb442f82aaf50eba5da9b275619ee0 is a known scam address reported by MyCrypto. By checking it on Whois0x, results will be as shown down there.

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Remember that all scams addresses are not referenced there, but many of them are.

Only send funds to trusted addresses

Stay tuned, more is coming.

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