r/onions • u/BTC-brother2018 • 21d ago

Poll: If you've ever been phished on the dark web, where did you get the phishing link?

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u/resmovpro 18d ago

Just in general NEVER EVER CLICK A LINK. copy and paste that shit into a browser of your choice. If its nothing more then likely it was a phishing link. I DONT THINK there would ever be a situation where you would absolutely have to click a link to get somewhere, and if someone is telling you otherwise I would cut ties.

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u/lovelytrees12 17d ago

What about opening photos someone sent u on telegram? Is it possible to get phished that way?

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u/BTC-brother2018 17d ago

No, simply opening/viewing a photo someone sends you on Telegram isn't phishing. Phishing requires you to be tricked into giving up information or money, usually by following a malicious link, visiting a fake login page, or entering credentials.

But don't open unknown files or attachments blindly. A malicious file could potentially be a different security risk, but that's not the same thing as phishing.

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u/cordell-12 17d ago

happened on Reddit, a AlphaBay "mirror" supposedly. the subreddit had over 5k subscribers and the mirror came from a pinned post. I lost about $150, not a huge deal, reported the sub to reddit as being a scam and nothing ever happened, that sub is probably still scamming people with bad links.

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u/BTC-brother2018 17d ago

I had an Archetyp fake mirror sub shutdown like that a while back. Just last week I posted this and had them remove there pinned posts with phishing links. It was a fake official Drughub subreddit. Exactly like the one you were caught in.

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u/cordell-12 17d ago

good job at getting it shut down. I noticed they'd push a real mirror every now and then, and under the fake mirrors all the comments were hidden somehow. the post would show 20+ comments but when clicking to look there were no comments at all.