Okay another semi basic aspect of crypo I am not understanding. But I really wanna keep learning abt how these scams work so I don’t fall for em and can help other people.
Reading all these scams of people having their wallets drained. But on sol you gotta sign all your transactions. So for people to get scammed this way they gotta go to a sketch site and sign a transactions on their wallet? Do the malicious transactions mask what they’re actually doing or do people not read / pay attention?
And then other people have mentioned sometimes they just click on a link and that’s it (implying they don’t sign any transactions) . Is this possible or are they lying / not understanding what they did.
I assumed you have to kinda do a lot to get scammed on a hot wallet. Go to a sketchy site, AND connect your wallet and approve a transaction.
Bonus question, if u had have ur wallet only connected on one chrome profile and the clicked on link from another would that prevent any nefarious link from even attempting to connect to ur wallet?
As long as you don’t click links your doing the most to stay safe
Anyone who says they didn’t approve it is mistaken or lying. It has to be approved by the wallet owner.
And yes you are safer using another browser that doesn’t have the extention for your wallet. But they could also be sending you a virus.
I have an old laptop I call the sandbox. If I open any links I do it on their because I have none of my accounts on it. It’s blank but connected to the internet.
But that’s only if you want to go above and beyond. Safest thing, like I originally said, just don’t click any links🤷♂️