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title: "Crypto wallet scams: how to spot one | URLert"
description: "A link that asks you to connect your wallet, sign or approve something, or type your recovery phrase. Approving can empty your wallet. How to tell, and what to do."
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# Crypto wallets

A link that asks you to connect your wallet, sign or approve something, or type your recovery phrase. Approving can empty your wallet. How to tell, and what to do.

A post or a message

Airdrop live! Eligible wallets can claim 1,200 tokens. Connect your wallet: https://claim-airdrop.example

On this page

1. What it looks like
2. How to spot one
3. What to do
4. Already acted?
5. Similar scams

## What it looks like

A post or a message

Airdrop live! Eligible wallets can claim 1,200 tokens. Connect your wallet: https://claim-airdrop.example

An email

From to me

MetaMask: Your wallet will be suspended. Verify your recovery phrase: https://metamask-verify.example

A message from “support”, after you asked for help in a public chat

I'm from the wallet's support team. Share your screen and I'll fix your stuck transaction.

Examples. The names and amounts change; the shape doesn't.

## How to spot one

1. **Anyone who asks for your recovery phrase** (the secret words). With it, they can empty the wallet. No real company asks for it.
2. **A claim, an airdrop or a mint that needs you to connect and sign.** Approving can give them permission to take your tokens.
3. **“Support” that contacts you first.**
4. **A countdown:** ends in minutes, only the first 500 wallets.
5. **A wallet app or browser add-on from a link,** not from your phone's app store or the wallet's own website.

## What to do

1. **Don't connect your wallet or sign anything from a link in a message.** Approving or signing can empty your wallet.
2. **Never type your recovery phrase into a website.**
3. **Go to a project through its official website,** found yourself, not through a link someone sent.
4. **Still not sure?** [Check the message](https://www.urlert.com/index.md). We open its link on a phone and a computer, not yours, and tell you what it is.

### Already connected, approved, or typed your recovery phrase?

- **Move what's left to a new wallet now.** Anyone with your recovery phrase, or an approval, can empty it.
- [I sent money](https://www.urlert.com/recover/money.md)
- [I let someone into my computer or phone](https://www.urlert.com/recover/remote.md)

## Similar scams

- [Investments](https://www.urlert.com/scams/investments.md)
- [Fake sign-in pages](https://www.urlert.com/scams/fake-sign-in-pages.md)
- [Fake downloads and apps](https://www.urlert.com/scams/fake-downloads.md)

On this page

1. What it looks like
2. How to spot one
3. What to do
4. Already acted?
5. Similar scams

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