Watch Out - Fake Wallet Generator Website is Out to Steal Your Coins

in #bitcoin7 years ago (edited)

Wallet generator is the most popular website for creating most secure cold storage wallets called - paper wallets for loads of coins.
Currently when this issue of 1:1 copy of website was found the site itself is turned off https://walletgenerator.org/ (some people speak about ddos going on it)

So the developer verified that only secure website is https://walletgenerator.net/

Most secure way

The best way is to actually download the script, put it on computer than never been on internet or at least took off internet connection and then generate https://github.com/MichaelMure/WalletGenerator.net/archive/master.zip from here.

The fake copy of website was found just 8 hours ago, its possible it was running for over a month.

If you have generated paper wallets lately make sure you have used proper source or move coins ASAP.

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Nice work sir

There's always that odd person with the mindset rip off other people's hard earned money..... Bad

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great info... thanks

I’ve never come across this before but tbh I’m surprised they havent appeared before. Where there is money there will be scams!

Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for sharing. This is scary.

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that is really a great information for people who are willing to store their coins safely,, Personally I never used a paper wallet,, but I just hope lots of people read your article,,
It is really hard to loose any coin that you want to store in a paper wallet and keep.
thank you & keep it up

Thanks bro! Much appreciated

Yes. I agree with you. @kingscrown provide always very informative post to people. I like the information about cryptocurrency. I am the fan of cryptocurrency Thank you @kingscrown for sharing this it.

Wow! If this site has been up for a month or longer I wonder how much they could have stolen. It's ironic too, because I just wrote recently about using a paper wallet generator, and yes the only safe way to do this is by downloading the source and using the generator offline. It's a shame for those that may have lost coins, and as the price of Bitcoin continues to increase I'm afraid we'll continue to see an increase in hacks and scams meant to steal Bitcoins.

Thanks for sharing this information as soon as it became available @kingscrown!

Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, when something gets hot and there is money to be made, the criminal element will come out of the woodwork.

Thank you for your great information hope your information save a lot of people from getting deceive

Thanks, keeping to the safe side: consider a Trezor or Ledger Nano S but please pay attention - you can only have 4-5 wallets on this devices so if you have say 10 cryptocoins, you can't hold them all on that devices.

This information is definitely worth sharing. Thanks.

thanks for info

I have never heard of this, I will never get scammed because I never go out of my way to even get close.

Wow your information is very important. Thats great post. Thanks for the information......

Thanks for this, i was almost tempted to use this site a few days back, shitty internet made me give up.

A lot of important information gave us information I did not know before. I can not even think that the matter is really false or not, but I believe that the information you gave is very true and accurate information thanks to sharing a good information with us.

Thanks for the info Kingscrown. unfortunately I know many close cases of friends who have lost their money for pages like this. I'm sure this will help a lot of people. Thank you 👍

Thanks for this, i was almost tempted to use this

I really like your post. and I've read it

Thanks for this amazing information @kingscrown
Cryptocurrencies is a great investment platform. Sadly, scammers won't stay clear.
Annoyingly, I lost some crypto coins to scammers some couple weeks ago

Thank for the info

Good information give us.thanks for sharing.

Yes, it is risky, but i hope that you will earn some money :D

pretty brutal I'm never trusting online wallets again after the BTG scam least if you download something you can verify the check sum.

I'm still fighting to get some funds back https://steemit.com/btg/@safetony/btg-scam-victim-support

unfortunately with the development of technology, blockade, crypto-currencies, there are dishonest people who are trying to deceive ignorant people. But it was inevitable, because everything does not happen so well ... as they say: we warn - it means armed. So thank you for your post and for warning people about such dangerous things ..

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Sage advice, pays to be super safe in cryptos.

Thanks for the caution.

Thanks @kingscrown for sharing this

Buy Ledger Nano S and you are safe. :)

useful inf.

Thank you for this information ! I didn't know about this ! I never thought that it's this kind of stuff legal ! I hope that will be implemented some conditions to secure the wallet creations !

I think this is one reason bitcoin is still not mainstream

Wow Thanks For The News

that is so scarry even the wallet generator this days are unpredictable

Thanks for sharing @kingscrown!!
This will helps us to beware of scammers

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Thanks for the warning! :)

It's going to be a bumpy ride of "stolen Bitcoin" in the future - most people aren't tech savvy enough yet to generate offline wallets, use 2FA on exchanges etc...
I bet, once this has all been sorted and made suuuuper easy for the average Joe, Bitcoin might even become mainstream 😉

There's always that odd person with the mindset rip off other people's hard earned money..... Bad

😍A very informative post. Great job. Keep it up! 😍
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