Anatomy of a Murder; What getting scammed actually looks like.

I have been messing around with crypto for about 2 years now and just yesterday got robbed of a bunch of RAY and SOL. I should have known better, but I figured I would spell out what happened to me so a noob might avoid the same mistakes.

So we all have heard this 'Do not ever give out your keys'. I know that one, but a clever little bugger still got me.

I got onto my solflare extension to check in on my ORCA holdings and did not see them (don't worry, they were just sitting at another wallet). Anyway I got onto the Orca Discord channel for some help.

Being new to discord, I typed in my dilemma. Really I think I just sent up a large red balloon that I might be a potential mark. So in the public chat one of the dev team responds and I have a brief and public back and forth with him/her. I can see they are on the dev team because their avatar and screen name are displayed on the right hand column as one of the dev team. Figured I was pretty safe to talk to them.

Get a DM from the same avatar as I am talking in the public chat, so I figured he/she wanted to take our help session into the DM department so we can hash out what went wrong.

Sends me a link that looks legit https://solflare-ext.com and says to click on that link and reenter seed phrase.

A-ha, I know better than to click on the link so I enter the address in on my own in a browser. Looks like a totally legit solflare website. I enter my precious seed phrase, hit enter and nothing happens.

Look back and the person (Russian dick/3rd world scammer/neighbor next door to me), has deleted our DM with the link in it.

7 minutes later they empty out that wallet through the Radium app. I was watching in real time as my values went to zero.

Here is what I should have seen, yes it was the same avatar but now I see they have been a member since 1/23/23 and not 2015 like the real dev team member.

I new enough to never give a person my seed phrase or to click on their version of a link, but I still got tricked by a thief waiting on the discord with access to a good looking fake website.

This is what my scam looked like. Knowledge is power kids. Mainstream adoption will not happen until we are relatively immune to these problems.