Ep.29 Nearly Scammed by a Crypto.com Impersonator with Stephen Endicott

Imagine this, you're in your kitchen baking a cake and someone calls you from crypto.com saying they're from the security team and that there's been suspicious activity on your account. You are a crypto.com customer so this sounds pretty legitimate. But turns out it's not. It's just a scammer pretending to be from crypto.com. 

This is what happened to Stephen. He received a call from a US number. The caller directed him to a convincing lookalike site (a hyphenated domain), pressured him with urgency, and prompted him to enter his app PIN and a 2FA code, plus delete the legitimate app and download another wallet app.

Everyone thinks that they wouldn't fall for a scam. But scammers use psychological tactics to get us when our guard is down. We loved Stephen sharing his story with us and we need to normalise talking about scamming because we are all vulnerable due to living in the digital world. 

If you are know someone who you’re concerned could fall for a crypto scam, make sure you share this episode with them. 

If you'd like to share your own scam story, please get in contact with us.

Report a scam:

https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/report-a-scam

Report identity theft:

https://www.idcare.org/

Our Scam Stories:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ourscamstories_i-thought-i-was-immune-to-scams-i-felt-activity-7439816758481502208-wuI1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAABXP9DgBP6Ry-lt82_LL0JIly0YXzrG4z3o

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