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Got the coinbase scam just a few days ago. Surprisingly well thought out. First I got a call which I picked up out of curiosity (I kind of enjoy seeing which ki
by cellis 2y ago
Got the coinbase scam just a few days ago. Surprisingly well thought out. First I got a call which I picked up out of curiosity (I kind of enjoy seeing which kinds of schemes are out in the open, so I pick up unknown calls here and there). The call was an automated, pre-neural-ai phone voice that said
"This is Coinbase support, we've noticed a suspicious transaction originating from 'Salt Lake City, Utah'. If this was you, press 1. If not, press 2'".
I pressed 2 but it proceeded anyway with
"We see that you did not initiate this transfer, please expect a call from Coinbase within 3 minutes".
After about 10 minutes a man with an American accent (ironic given that Coinbase support routes you to an Indian call center) called claiming to say something about how Coinbase was compromised and I needed to change my passkey and move my funds to a custodial wallet. I logged into my Coinbase account and said "I don't see any transfers". He said "yes, we don't show them to you because they've been flagged, but they were in the amount of <off by an order of magnitude of what I have in Coinbase>". I asked him "how do I know you're Coinbase?", and he said "certainly I can send you a verification email", which he did. The domain name wasn't verified and gmail flagged it as spam. He stayed on the call then said, "next I'll send you a reset password link". Then I asked "how about you tell me how much I have in each currency". He said a number that was off by an order of magnitude. Then I hung up. He tried calling back but I didn't pick up. Later, I checked my email and saw there was indeed a "reset coinbase passkey" email in my spambox.
- TechDebtDevin 2y agoWell if I know your email, which they obviously did since they sent you unofficial mail, all I have to do is type the email in and push reset password.