Stop Clicking!

The best and most simple advice I can give is to stop clicking links. This doesn’t mean to never click a link again. However, be very cautious and skeptical of links you find or receive.

• Avoid reacting to messages in social media (i.e. Twitter, Discord, telegram)

• Even if your best friend sends you a link about some project they are looking into, do not click that link. You do not know if your friend could have been socially engineered, unknowingly.

• Go to the source.

  • If you do receive links and you are interested, instead of accepting and using that link, go to the source. Find their official website, or social media, or link tree for example.

  • If you are making a purchase such as a Ledger or Trezor, go the source as well. Do not buy from a third party or anywhere other than their official site/location.

• Hover over hyperlinks.

  • You can create hyperlink text that is different than the website you are being sent to. So a site link may show "something.com", but when you hover over it you might see "somethingelse.com".

• Example: I left a discord server because I did not trust their administrators to protect their users.

  • Story: I received a message from someone I was not familiar with, and that person sent a rather normal looking message. Instead of engaging, I decided to look into them. I first looked if we shared any other discord servers. I am in a lot of them, and we only shared one. So next I went to that discord server to search that user. I identified them as a “new user”. Discord will tell you that if you click on their profile/name. I also then noticed this person had never said anything in that discord server. The administrators did not feel this was suspicious.