Alphabay phishing warning

Oh how I never thought it could happen to me, but 99% sure I just got phished friends. Earlier I was [10/10] and was shopping, when I noticed a message saying that I needed to verify my account. Sounded like bullshit, but I clicked the link and it was the alphabay login page. I thought that the session had just expired or something, so I logged in. Oh, and it requested my pin during login, which I didn't think anything about because I'm a complete retard.

Anyway, now I can't login and can't recover the password because the pin was changed, even though I have the mnemonic. Which, why do I need to enter the pin to recover the password if I already have the secret mnemonic? Seems like an obvious way for stolen accounts to be permanently stolen. Anyway, bye bye to my bitcoin, bye bye alpha. At least since the orders can't be canceled, Humbolt will still fill the order I had made, right?

tl;dr: don't click links in messages from alphabay


Comments


[2 Points] jakedacake:

I think I received the same message. Sorry to hear you bought the bait but somewhat surprised you didn't notice the sender was a new member having joined the day or day before posting the pm.

On the upside hopefully it was a only small loss for a big lesson and education.

I suggest you login via 2FA. Along with the encrypted code you need the message also contains all legitimate mirror addresses. It would be one of the only forms of communication regarding anything critical that I would consider to be legit and even then it would pay to further investigate.


[1 Points] DaRealDonaldTrump:

Nice way to call out a vendor.

If your account got compromised, they could message the vendor and ask them to cancel the order.

Still, super classy of you to let everyone know that you're expecting a pack that the vendor could have already cancelled due to your mistake.