{"id":73988,"date":"2023-02-13T12:42:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T10:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=73988"},"modified":"2025-09-09T17:34:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:34:59","slug":"metamask-team-warns-users-about-phishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/metamask-team-warns-users-about-phishing\/","title":{"rendered":"MetaMask team warns users about phishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The developers of the non-custodial crypto wallet MetaMask have warned users about phishing attacks conducted via a third-party email service.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u26a0\ufe0fMetaMask does not collect KYC info and will never email you about your account!<br \/>Do not enter your Secret Recovery Phrase on a website EVER.<br \/>If you got an email today from MetaMask or Namecheap or anyone else like this, ignore it &#038; do not click its links!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EP0HGZFOfo\">https:\/\/t.co\/EP0HGZFOfo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4CDtne24OK\">pic.twitter.com\/4CDtne24OK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MetaMask \ud83e\udd8a\ud83d\udc99 (@MetaMask) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MetaMask\/status\/1625006237023866880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cMetaMask does not collect <span data-descr=\"Know Your Customer \u2014 know your customer\" class=\"old_tooltip\">KYC<\/span>-information and will never email you about your account! Never enter your Secret Recovery Phrase on a website. If you receive an email from MetaMask, Namecheap or anyone else, ignore it and do not click the link,\u201d wrote the MetaMask team.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Namecheap, the email service provider, confirmed that malicious messages were sent through its service. According to the statement, the email systems were not breached and user data were not affected.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have evidence that the upstream system we use for sending emails is involved in the mailing of unsolicited emails to our clients. It was stopped immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Namecheap.com (@Namecheap) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Namecheap\/status\/1624926194532581377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The teams continue to investigate the incident and warn users to double-check links from MetaMask or Namecheap. The latter\u2019s developers noted that they cannot yet prevent the sending of fraudulent emails. They have contacted their upstream provider to resolve the issue.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hi, we have evidence that upstream system we use for sending emails is involved. Please ignore such emails and do not click on any links. Also, we have stopped the emails and contacted our upstream provider to resolve it: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2xJ362KF0f\">https:\/\/t.co\/2xJ362KF0f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Namecheap.com (@Namecheap) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Namecheap\/status\/1625049656861372417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Earlier in February, the MetaMask team <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/metamask-team-updates-privacy-settings\">added<\/a> an option in the application&#8217;s settings to switch the <span data-descr=\"remote procedure call\" class=\"old_tooltip\">RPC<\/span>-provider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The developers of the non-custodial crypto wallet MetaMask warned users about phishing attacks via a third-party email service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1287,57],"class_list":["post-73988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-metamask","tag-wallets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"25","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73990,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73988\/revisions\/73990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}