🔓 MetaMask Phishing Scandal: The Browser Extension Trap

In 2022, hundreds of MetaMask users fell victim to a sophisticated phishing scam, resulting in the theft of millions in ETH and NFTs — all without a single smart contract hack.

🕷️ Attackers used Google ads, fake support emails, and clone websites to trick users into entering their seed phrases on malicious pages that looked exactly like MetaMask’s interface.

🎭 Victims unknowingly handed over full wallet access, and the funds were drained instantly — often while the user was still logged in.

🧠 The incident revealed that social engineering, not code, was becoming one of the greatest threats in Web3. It also sparked a surge in security tools like hardware wallets, phishing detectors, and browser security plugins.

💡 The MetaMask scam served as a harsh wake-up call: decentralization puts responsibility entirely in the user’s hands.

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