Fraudsters have developed a new scheme targeting cryptocurrency users prone to illegal activities. The perpetrators lure victims with false offers of assistance for newcomers in the cryptocurrency world. This was reported by the official website of "Kaspersky Lab". The essence of the scheme is as follows: in social networks or crypto chats, the fraudsters present themselves as newcomers and ask for help withdrawing funds from their wallet by providing a secret access phrase (seed-phrase). The victim, wanting to receive money, discovers that there are not enough funds to pay the fee. As a result, they transfer the necessary funds to another wallet, and the fraudsters take that money.

As reported by Kaspersky Lab analyst Mikhail Sytnik, the wallets used by the fraudsters require multiple signatures to confirm a transaction, making it impossible for the victim to withdraw funds even after paying the fee.