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My tokens were moved after I clicked a trading link—is this a phishing scam?

DEV Community·Gabriel Tomasz·6 months ago
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I think I just got hit with one of those fake trading platform phishing scams and I’m still trying to understand how fast it happened.

A guy I met in a crypto Discord server sent me a link to what looked like a new AI trading dashboard. Honestly the site looked real enough. Charts moving, live trades, wallet connect button, even fake community comments. I connected my wallet because I only planned to look around and maybe test a small trade.

Big mistake.

About 15 minutes later I started getting transaction notifications I didn’t approve. At first I thought maybe it was delayed swaps from another app, but then I saw my USDT and a couple of tokens getting transferred out one by one into another address.

The weird thing is I never gave anyone my seed phrase. That’s why I got confused.…

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