Do NOT use Google Authenticator! So many mistakes in this story but that one sticks out to me as one many may not be aware of.

Honestly this is the biggest mistake.

My wife recently got a voice mail from a dude claiming to be a police officer. She was suspicious and instead of calling him back she called the police office directly and found out no officers there have that name or number.

Scamming is increasing on many fronts. People have to be skeptical and careful. It seems like I have a friend of family member telling me about a scam attempt every couple of weeks.

Law enforcement is both inequiped and unmotivated to stop it. That is not gonna change. I don't see legislation fixing this either. We just have to be educated and help those in our circles.

I'm active in my small community and we hear our local community contact from the county Sheriff warn us about scams every month. The weaknesses aren't unfixable. People just don't understand it yet. I think most just still think there should be some easy fix that doesn't require thinking and changing behavior.

I've been thinking about offering a free workshop for my church regarding online security. Basic stuff. Not sure how many would be interested but I think it's worth trying.

fuck, imagine having all 40 btc on one single device and also having a pic of the seed phrase on google photos. maybe some hubris of being in early.

scams are so fucked, these days, not only do I never click on any email link, period, I don't engage with any calls from people saying it's the bank and I don't click on anything from text messages. anything crypto linked to a different address etc

i never even call back numbers.

what a waste of energy though, having to independently verify every number etc

My kids were screaming so I put my seed into a phishing site lol best line ever, and here I am in a quiet controlled environment sweating when I do something as simple as generate a new public key.

45 BTC???

WTF

from article: Griffin said that after receiving the pop-up prompt from Google on his phone, he felt more at ease that he really was talking to someone at Google. In reality, the thieves caused the alert to appear on his phone merely by stepping through Google’s account recovery process for Griffin’s Gmail address.

“As soon as I clicked yes, I gave them access to my Gmail, which was synched to Google Photos,” Griffin said.

Unfortunately for Griffin, years ago he used Google Photos to store an image of the secret seed phrase that was protecting his cryptocurrency wallet. Armed with that phrase, the phishers could drain all of his funds.

“From there they were able to transfer approximately $450,000 out of my Exodus wallet,” Griffin recalled.

People need to be more careful. Keep your coins safe.

security is important and I say this from my own experience and this SN touches me closely, because recently someone with the data of a relative of mine contacted me that had arrived in my country by surprise and could not rent a car because everything was in dollars and needed the national currency, I sent through another person some money and when I realized it was too late. so stakers certainly be careful and be more cautious, as @kepford says there should be preparation workshops would be great more of these posts. and learn to move more safely in the midst of so many scams.

Ouch.

If you can help even one person avoid ever having this happen, then you're doing the right thing. Educate others.

I recently reconnected with a friend from high school that I haven't spoken to in many years. He wanted to get started with bitcoin. He said he had already purchased some from Coinbase, but it's just on their server where he bought it. He has never used a wallet yet.

Here's a screenshot of the last of the stuff I told him:

This sucks but if after all he did and all that happened he thinks google should do more to protect people he has learned nothing. One of the main problems bitcoin solved is trusted third parties.

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Just before Christmas 🎄 damn 😢

Who would lose 45 BTC today? Or is that an old one?