I received an email today claiming to be from EOS.IO stating there was an Airdrop for holders of EOS and Ethereum and at first, I thought this to be true until I contacted a mod Hive account@steempowerpics from the official EOS discord server = https://discord.gg/9GkJv5Y

The email linked to a similarly named site as the official EOS site EOS.IO > EOS.COM with a dot underneath

REAL	FAKE

A dot underneath a letter in a Domain URL(Website Link) as far as I've seen has always been a phising site and should be looked out for.

On visiting the site I was brought to a page claiming to give 15 EOS to 1 ETH which is a ridiculously high offer to make.

Underneath was this asking to visit a FAKE myetherwallet site instead of just requesting address which a real airdrop would only need and not a transfer.

REAL	FAKE

Official MyEtherWallet will always have MYETHERWALLET LLC in green.

Web Wallet Safety Tips

• USE A HARDWARE WALLET
  https://www.ledgerwallet.com
  https://trezor.io

• If you use your private key on a phishing website, your money is gone!

• Always make sure links to websites are correct.

• Never use a link from an untrusted source on social media(steemit, twitter, facebook) forums(Reddit, bitcointalk, 4chan) messengers(telegram, slack , discord) private messages or email.

• Type links or search on google for an official link.

Browser Tools To Block Malicious Websites

Wallet Extensions

• EAL chrome.google.com/webstore/etheraddresslookup

• MetaMask chrome.google.com/webstore

• Cryptonite chrome.google.com/webstore/metacert

• MyEtherWallet chrome.google.com/webstore/myetherwallet

Anti Phishing Extensions

• isthislegit https://github.com/duo-labs/isthislegit

• Phinn https://github.com/duo-labs/phinn

Other Extensions

• Adblock https://chrome.google.com/webstoreadblock

• Minerblock https://chrome.google.com/webstore/minerblock

Software

• Trend Micro(Paid) https://www.trendmicro.com

• Malwarebytes(free trial + manual scans) https://www.malwarebytes.com/

• Avast (Free) https://www.avast.com

• Kaspersky(Free) https://www.kaspersky.co.uk

• Bitdefender(Free) https://www.bitdefender.co.uk/

• Fortinet(Free) https://www.forticlient.com/downloads

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