According to Cointelegraph, in the past week, at least three Coinbase users and one crypto user claimed to have been attacked by scammers posing as Coinbase employees, and one of the victims claimed to have been defrauded of $1.7 million. The victim said that the scammer claimed to be a member of the Coinbase security team and sent the victim an email that looked like it came from Coinbase, verifying that the victim was talking to an official representative of Coinbase. The scammer claimed that the victim's wallet was "directly connected to the blockchain," causing transactions in the wallet to occur; then the scammer sent another email that looked like it came from Coinbase, showing an outgoing transaction. The scammer instructed the victim to enter their private key on a website to stop the transaction, and although the victim knew that it was "unsafe," he still entered a "partial" mnemonic, but ultimately did not submit it. However, a few hours later, the victim claimed that $1.7 million had been stolen from his wallet. Hiro Systems CEO Alex Miller believes that such websites will capture data even if it is not submitted when entering data, and the mnemonic partially revealed by the victim may be enough for the scammer to brute force the rest. Additionally, there are fake Coinbase representatives who can say the user’s full name and confirm their email address.