0xPilgrimage

I just received an email from a domain that appeared to be legit; the email was also signed by a "legit" certificate. However, the domain did not match what I knew to be the correct one for distribution of lost funds.

I am talking about the defunct CEX (centralized exchange) Voyager. They got rekt when FTX imploded and most of us were caught holding bags because all the liquidity disappeared.

Voyager and 3 Arrows Capital died with FTX and so many people lost everything. The bad thing about crypto is that if you leave your funds on the exchange they really aren't exactly yours, as evidenced with Voyager getting rekt. There is a saying, "not your keys, not your crypto." It cannot be more prescient when you witness an exchange dying. Our cryptos there are not guaranteed like when a bank dies, at least you are guaranteed up to $250k with a bank. My cryptos were sold off without my consent so they could get money back to pay off creditors first. The smol guys lose.

Then a big scammer comes along and somehow grabs the email addresses of affected parties and begins hitting them with spam emails to extract the rest of their liquidity.

I had Grok analyze the link address that was sent to me by a seemingly legit and signed email. He said: "The link raises suspicion due to its association with a platform known to have been abused for phishing, the use of a URL shortener, and reports of malicious activity tied to similar URLs. Treat it as potentially malicious until proven otherwise."

I also knew this link to be somewhat dangerous because Voyager had already told everyone that distributions and information will come from this domain only: https://www.investvoyager.com/

If something does not look or feel right and it cannot pass the sniff test, trust your gut.

Stay safe...have a wonderful Sunday.