The impersonators claimed to be members of the ParaFi team, but the victim realized he was being scammed when they tried to convince him to download ‘drivers.’
Crypto educator Duo Nine, creator of the Your Crypto Community (YCC) platform, nearly fell victim to an impersonation scam on Sept. 30, according to an Oct. 1 X thread.
The scammers claimed to be executives from venture capital firm ParaFi. Their goal was to convince Duo Nine to download a “patch” that would allow his copy of Slack to work. In reality, the “driver” was likely malware, and the impersonators were attempting to steal his private key and drain his crypto wallet of everything it contained.
ParaFi Partner Kevin Yedid-Boton stated in an Oct. 1 X post that the scammers are not associated with his firm and that crypto users should not interact with the bogus accounts.
