Just stumbled on this shady operation where some influencer was pushing a site called crypllet or something similar. The whole pitch was basically "hey go make a wallet, load it up with crypto, then enter your seed words on our site to see if they've been leaked in any breaches"
Like come on, anyone with half a brain knows you never enter your recovery phrase anywhere except when restoring an actual wallet. This is obviously just harvesting seed phrases to drain wallets later. Can't believe people might actually fall for this but I guess that's how these scams keep working
The red flags are everywhere – why would you need to buy crypto first to check if words were compromised, and why would any legit service ask for your actual seed phrase instead of just a hash or something. Stay safe out there folks
Watch out for this sketchy seed phrase "checker" site
byu/Particular-Cow5798 inBitcoin
Posted by Particular-Cow5798
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Sharing “just a hash” is as bad as sharing the seed phrase. As a seedphrase is the hash, but writeable.
Seed phrase should never be entered anywhere except your wallet, that is the only rule that matters. If a site asks for it, close it immediately. Once funds are gone, there is usually no recovery depending on jurisdiction.
yeah that’s 100% a scam, any site asking for your seed phrase is trying to steal your funds, no exceptions. there is never a legitimate reason to enter your recovery phrase anywhere except directly into a trusted wallet during recovery.
It looks like scammers are downvoting the comments.