What is Phishing?
Fake sites and messages that imitate a real service to capture keys or approvals.
Crypto phishing usually arrives as a link: a look-alike domain, an ad above the real result, a direct message about a fake airdrop. The goal is a seed phrase or a token approval.
Type addresses yourself, bookmark the site you actually use, and treat any unsolicited link about free money as hostile until proven otherwise.
Related terms
- Seed phraseSecurity
Twelve or 24 words that regenerate every key in a wallet; never type it into a website.
- Token approvalSecurity
Permission you grant a contract to move a token of yours, sometimes without a limit.
- Rug pullSecurity
A project that takes deposits and then removes the liquidity or dumps its own supply.