These phishing attacks on community Slack groups have become so severe (likely composing a large percentage of the hundreds of millions stolen in crypto-related phishing attacks) that many prominent projects have left for greener pastures. Unfortunately though, in the moment they’re often extremely well executed and convincing. In retrospect, it’s easy to identify these unsolicited sale instructions as scams meant to steal ether from excited community members. These messages likely began coming a few weeks before an anticipated presale or ICO and included an ethereum address to send your ether to if you wanted to participate in the sale. ![]() If you’ve ever been interested in a blockchain project and joined their Slack group to learn more, I’m willing to guess that you eventually started receiving unsolicited direct messages. ![]() It’s time to Riot(.im) Why we abandoned Slack, and why you probably should too
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