QR Code Phishing
QR code phishing uses a malicious QR code to send victims to fraudulent login pages, payment destinations, or wallet requests.
✦ Key Insight
Recognizing QR Code Phishing can help users detect suspicious requests earlier and avoid signing, approving, installing, or paying into an attacker-controlled flow.
✕ Common Misconceptions
Do not rely on branding, screenshots, caller identity, transaction previews, or search results alone. Verify official domains, contract addresses, permissions, and wallet prompts independently.
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Smart Contract
A smart contract is blockchain-deployed code that can hold state and execute predefined rules when called.
Private Key
The secret number that authorises spending from a crypto address.
Phishing
Fake sites, emails or messages built to trick you into revealing credentials or signing a malicious transaction.
Token Approval
Permission you grant a smart contract to move a specific token from your wallet on your behalf.
Wallet Drainer
Malicious code on a website that empties a connected wallet once the user signs its transaction.