Ethereum Silver is a SCAM

Never give away your private key

Dave Appleton
2 min readNov 5, 2017

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  • I must apologise — they do not collect private keys — everything else stands
    plus they are promoting an ICO with a twitter account that was started less than a week old. Does that sound legit?

If you applied for the Ethereum Silver airdrop, move everything from that account NOW

I am flying back from Devcon3 in Cancun Mexico, I have a huge backlog of work from stuff I intended to do but was too jet-lagged to do. Had a sleep and woke up to a warning from some very respected friends about another scam.

It seems that a site called Ethereum Silver are offering an airdrop followed by an ICO.

Why is it a SCAM ?

  • They STOLE material from EtherParty’s whitepaper
  • They offer an airdrop — ask you to fill in a form which asks for your P̶R̶I̶V̶A̶T̶E̶ ̶K̶E̶Y̶. Email address, telegram, ethereum address.
    Your private key gives them access to EVERYTHING in your account.
    Nobody needs your private key but YOU.
  • They say that after the ICO they will be listed on
    Poloniex
    Binace
    EtherDelta
    HitBTC
    NOBODY can guarantee Poloniex, Binance or HitBTC before they are launched. You need huge trading volume to get onto Poloniex.

So, if you gave them your private key, move all ether and tokens into a new account NOW

Do NOT support an ICO that lists no founders, no address and copies their whitepaper from a group with a decent history in the crypto space.

Oh and never give anybody your private key.

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Dave Appleton
Dave Appleton

Written by Dave Appleton

HelloGold's blockchain lead and Senior Advisor at Akomba Labs; a technology anachronism who codes, teaches, mentors and consumes far too much caffeine.

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