I ALMOST got hacked by being on someone's fucking podcast!

These scammers are getting super sophisticated. Be careful out there. 

Here's what happened: 
- I got approached on Twitter DM about getting on a Podcast.  
- I checked out their older episodes, looked kinda legit, just new up and coming.
- I agreed.

- We agreed on a time. He even gave me the topic for the podcast a day in advance. All looking legit.

- I got ready when the time came. He shared that we'll be doing the interview on some conferencing platform called VDeck. 

- I didn't think much of it, clicked through. Site looked kinda legit.

The site just looks like some niche podcasting tool. Didn't think much of it.

When I click on "Join meeting" or something on that site, it made me download the tool - similar process to how Zoom would work if you don't have it installed already.

A dmg file got downloaded. I then tried installing it (I should've been more careful here but everything was kinda professional to this point)

Half way through the installation, I realized something's weird. There's some script that it's trying to run + it's asking for my password (some custom weird password form).

Alarm bells rang immediately. I shut it down. I told him I don't trust it, let's do Google Meet.

I share him a Meet link. 

He says he's trying to join but he's getting some error (basically trying for me to go back to Vdeck app).

I then asked him to get fucked.

But this actually surprised me. I'm a highly technical, experienced power user of crypto, super careful all the time and this almost got me.

There is no way a normal person is not falling for this. 

Guards up people! Crypto is wild.