Send Your ETH to Smart Contract to Convert to ETH 2.0 (Is this a scam?! BEWARE!!)
3 min readDec 9, 2020
I usually do not make short posts. However, as I see the narrative of this scam and just received the email now, I evaluated that it maybe a potential threat which is why it is best to spread this as soon as possible. Here is the content of the email:
- Smart Contract: 0xB2E82e27DE6F9Fa1112a2908CC016734520Feb25
- Email Address: support@outlook-apps.net claimed to be Ethereum Foundation
- Email Subject: ETH mainnet is now launched! What do you need to do?
- Suspicion: ETH users are asked to sent to a claimed to be a smart contract address while most transactions are irreversible.
- Other links contained: Explore upgrades, The eth2 vision.
The reason why I considered this as a threat because I almost believed and planned to send my ETH to this address. However, I remembered my first time of being scammed which seems similar and thankfully I stopped. Why I…