Spotting scams before they spot you
Bitcoin’s irreversibility is a feature, and it’s why scammers love it. The good news: nearly every scam follows the same tired script.
7 of 9 · Hold it without fearBecause Bitcoin payments can’t be reversed, scammers don’t need to be clever. They just need you to act fast and think later. Learn the patterns once and you’ll spot them from a mile off.
The red flags
- “Verify your ” / “enter your .” Never. No real service asks for your recovery words. This is the big one.
- Guaranteed returns. “Send 1, get 2 back.” Doubling schemes, fake giveaways, celebrity “airdrops”: all theft with a bow on it.
- Urgency. “Act in the next 10 minutes or lose access.” Pressure is the tool. Slow down and the scam falls apart.
- Unsolicited help. A “support agent” who DMs you first is a scammer. Real support doesn’t slide into your messages.
Urgency plus secrecy equals scam. Every time.
Real, or a scam?
1 of 6A direct message from “Bad Wallet Support”
Hi! We’ve detected unusual activity on your wallet. To restore access, please verify your 12-word recovery phrase at badwallet-verify.com
Your defense
Slow down. Verify through official channels you found yourself, not links someone sent you. And remember the golden rule: your seed phrase stays with you and only you, forever.
In Bad Wallet
The question every one of those scams opens with is one we can’t ask.
Your recovery words are made on your phone and never sent to us. There is no field on our side to type them into, no support agent who needs them, and nothing we could hand over if we were asked. Anyone claiming otherwise isn’t us.
The one thing to remember
Nobody legit asks for your seed phrase or guarantees returns. Urgency + secrecy = scam.