Official government websites from India, Nigeria, Egypt, Colombia, Brazil, Vietnam and other jurisdictions have been found redirecting to fake MetaMask websites.
Crypto scams targeting MetaMask users are using government-owned website URLs to con victims and access their crypto wallet holdings.
Ethereum-based crypto wallet MetaMask has been a long-standing target for scammers — which involves redirecting unwary users to fabricated websites that request access to the MetaMask wallets. Cointelegraph’s investigation on the matter found numerous government-owned websites being used to perpetrate this exact scam.
Official government websites from India, Nigeria, Egypt, Colombia, Brazil, Vietnam and other jurisdictions have been found redirecting to fake MetaMask websites, as shown below.Cointelegraph altered MetaMask about the ongoing scams and has not yet heard back from them at the time of writing. Once a user clicks on any of the rogue links placed within the government website URLs, they are redirected to a fake URL, instead of the original URL"MetaMask.io". Once accessed, Microsoft’s built-in security — Microsoft Defender — warns users about a possible phishing attempt.If a user decides to ignore the warning, they are then greeted by a website that closely resembles the official MetaMask website.
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