🚨 Scammer Alert 🚨
Recently my brother became a victim of a common crypto scam. few days ago he got a message from u/Cautious_River2861 regarding buying USDT
Firstly it looks normal. They both aggred on rates & payment method (CDM) after that the main game starts.
He firstly told him that his Binance is blocked my brother said it's okay no problem we'll use any private wallet like trust wallet or Safepal. then my brother asked him to pay first and after that he'll release the USDT. Then after he asked to pay him a little bit of the test transaction to verify the USDT is real or not. He told him that i'm sending payment upfront and need some confirmation before sending payment upfront. My brother got into that and get convinced by the scammer.
My brother withdrew like $100 of the USDT from exchange to the trust wallet and then agrees to pay him a $1 as a test transaction. So he sends him a QR Code. my brother scanned the QR code and as suddenly his whole wallet is drained. he didn't gave any permission still it drained his whole wallet.
The irony is that he further replies him with "Okay USDT received, and I'm sending payment" offcourse after that he blocked him.
After that I got angry and explains my brother that this is a common crypto wallet drainer scam and he got into that. I'm very lucky that he only withdrew $100 from the exchange.
How this actually happened
Crypto Wallet Drainer Scam
The scammer creates a phishing page looking like Trust Wallet payment page and also a Javascript interacting with victim wallet and asking permission to send the whole balance regardless of the amount typed in the amount section. It doesn't matter whatever address you typed in address feild it sents funds to the scammers hard coded address.
This scam mostly works on BEP-20 & ERC-20 that's why the scammer request to use this chain.