⚠️ ALERT: There's a fake crypto safety check making the rounds, and it's designed to look exactly like the real thing.
Malwarebytes just flagged a wave of fraudulent AML checker sites, tools that claim to scan your wallet for links to hacks, scams, or sanctioned addresses. The catch: these fakes impersonate legitimate services like AMLBot, and they're built to steal, not screen.
Here's the tell. A real AML check needs nothing but your public wallet address. That's it. No connection, no approval, no signature. Just a lookup.
The fake sites do the opposite. They prompt you to connect your wallet, then run a fake progress bar while "analyzing" your address. Some even ask for a small fee to cover the check. Then they return a reassuring "Clean, Low Risk" result, regardless of whether any real scan happened.
The actual danger comes when you're asked to approve a transaction or grant token permissions as part of the "verification." That single approval is what hands attackers the ability to drain your assets.
Malwarebytes found the same site template reused across multiple fake platforms under different names and logos, this isn't one scam, it's a whole kit being recycled.
If you already connected a wallet but approved nothing: disconnect from the site immediately, that alone shouldn't have exposed your funds.
If you approved a transaction or granted permissions: check your wallet for unfamiliar token approvals right now and revoke them.
The golden rule going forward: if any AML checker asks you to connect a wallet instead of simply typing in your public address, close the tab.
#Crypto #Scam #WalletSecurity #Malwarebytes #DeFi
Malwarebytes just flagged a wave of fraudulent AML checker sites, tools that claim to scan your wallet for links to hacks, scams, or sanctioned addresses. The catch: these fakes impersonate legitimate services like AMLBot, and they're built to steal, not screen.
Here's the tell. A real AML check needs nothing but your public wallet address. That's it. No connection, no approval, no signature. Just a lookup.
The fake sites do the opposite. They prompt you to connect your wallet, then run a fake progress bar while "analyzing" your address. Some even ask for a small fee to cover the check. Then they return a reassuring "Clean, Low Risk" result, regardless of whether any real scan happened.
The actual danger comes when you're asked to approve a transaction or grant token permissions as part of the "verification." That single approval is what hands attackers the ability to drain your assets.
Malwarebytes found the same site template reused across multiple fake platforms under different names and logos, this isn't one scam, it's a whole kit being recycled.
If you already connected a wallet but approved nothing: disconnect from the site immediately, that alone shouldn't have exposed your funds.
If you approved a transaction or granted permissions: check your wallet for unfamiliar token approvals right now and revoke them.
The golden rule going forward: if any AML checker asks you to connect a wallet instead of simply typing in your public address, close the tab.
#Crypto #Scam #WalletSecurity #Malwarebytes #DeFi