Scam warning: beware of fake website arzdigital.blog!
For some time, a fake website called “arzdigital.blog” has been deceiving users by misusing the name and logo of “Arzdigital” group. The operators of this fake website, which claims to be the “Official Blog of Cryptocurrencies”, trick users by directing them to a page titled “How To Get $150,000 Free Coin Wallet!”, after holding a fake lottery and going through several steps. The formal registration asks them to deposit some Ethereum as a “fee” to a specified address to withdraw their $150,000 reward.
Warning: All the steps embedded in this website are fake and after depositing Ethereum, no amount will be deposited into your account. However, we will review this scam step by step for the users to know more.
The fake website has a page called “arzdigital.blog/kucoin” and embeds a video tutorial in which an anonymous person encourages users to participate in a completely fake lottery entitled “Free $150,000 Wallets”. .
After clicking on the “www.kocoin.co” button (note that the original address of the Kocoin exchange website is kucoin.com and the kocoin.co address is fake), the user is directed to a fake page containing a wheel of fortune, which after entering a name username and email address in it, a fake lottery process is started and the user apparently wins $150,000 Tether. Note that this wheel of chance always stops at the number $150,000, which clearly shows that this process is completely virtual.
After this step, the user is redirected to a page containing a fake username and password, where a button is embedded to log in and open the wallet. Note that all users will be shown the same username and password in the image below; That is, there is no mechanism for creating a unique username and password.
On the next page, you will be asked to continue using your mobile phone and enter your wallet with the password and username displayed in the previous step. The address of this page is also “kucoinwallet.org” and it is completely fake.
In the next step, you will be shown a page similar to the first page of the Kocoin exchange, which seems to have $150,000 Tether in balance and an option to withdraw is built into it.
If you click on the “Send” button, the following page will be displayed for you. In this section, after clicking on the Tether row, you will be directed to the page for entering the address and withdrawal amount. It should be noted that both the address and amount are completely formal.
In the next part, which is the main target of scammers, you will be asked to deposit $263.32 Ethereum to a specific address to finalize your withdrawal. Scammers at this point have claimed that this $263 is a “fixed ethereum network fee”!
Unfortunately, so far, more than $2,000 Ethereum has been deposited to the address associated with this fake website.
Note that in no centralized or decentralized platform, network fees have been collected from users in this way, and there is no need to deposit a specific amount to a specific address.
This fake website also has a fake page at the address “arzdigital.blog” on the Instagram social network and uses it to deceive users.
Please note that this website and its affiliated user accounts have nothing to do with the Erzdigital collection and only seek to abuse the name and logo of Erzdigital to deceive users. Dear users, we ask you to be careful of similar scams.