{"id":129932,"date":"2025-05-24T21:15:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T21:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=129932"},"modified":"2025-05-24T21:15:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T21:15:44","slug":"industry-exec-sounds-alarm-on-ledger-phishing-letter-delivered-by-usps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=129932","title":{"rendered":"Industry exec sounds alarm on Ledger phishing letter delivered by USPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsScammers posing as Ledger, a hardware wallet manufacturer, are sending physical letters to crypto users instructing them to &#8220;validate&#8221; their wallets or risk losing access to funds, in the latest phishing attack to impact the industry.<br \/>\nBitGo CEO Mike Belshe shared a picture of the scam letter, which featured a QR code, presumably linked to a malicious phishing site. The letter was sent through the United States Postal Service (USPS), according to the executive.<br \/>\n&#8220;These are all scams do not fall for any of these,&#8221; Troy Lindsey wrote after receiving a copy of the phishing letter.<br \/>\nA copy of the scam Phishing letter. Source: Mike BelsheCointelegraph reached out to Ledger for comment but was unable to obtain a response by the time of publication.<br \/>\nThis phishing attempt highlights the ever-evolving complexity and tactics of social engineering scams designed to steal crypto private keys, user funds, and other sensitive data from unsuspecting victims.<br \/>\nRelated: Hackers using fake Ledger Live app to steal seed phrases and drain crypto<br \/>\nCoinbase and crypto users hit hard by phishing attacks in 2025<br \/>\nIn April 2025, $330 million in Bitcoin (BTC) was stolen from an elderly individual through a phishing attack, onchain detective ZackXBT confirmed in an April 30 X post.<br \/>\n&#8220;Two suspects in the $330 million heist include &#8216;Nina\/Mo&#8217; \u2014 a Somalian who operates a call scam center in Camden, UK \u2014 and an accomplice &#8216;W0rk,&#8217; who assisted with the site and call,&#8221; the onchain security analyst said in an update.<br \/>\nOn May 15, crypto exchange Coinbase announced it was the target of a ransom attempt after customer service contractors, who were later fired by the company, leaked user data to threat actors.<br \/>\nThe scammers demanded a $20 million ransom, which Coinbase refused to pay, and the stolen data included names, addresses, contact information, and a limited amount of other sensitive account data belonging to a small subset of Coinbase customers.<br \/>\nNo private keys, login credentials, or accesses to Coinbase Prime accounts were compromised during the leak, according to the exchange.<br \/>\nTechCrunch founder Michael Arrington was highly critical of the exchange for the security failure, arguing that it will lead to physical violence against customers exposed in the hack.<br \/>\nMagazine: Crypto-Sec: Phishing scammer goes after Hedera users, address poisoner gets $70K<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/industry-exec-alarm-ledger-phishing-letter-usps?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsScammers posing as Ledger, a hardware wallet manufacturer, are sending physical letters to crypto users instructing them to &#8220;validate&#8221; their wallets or risk losing access to funds, in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129932"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}