My day was completely derailed yesterday after a scammer posing as a journalist nearly phished me via Zoom. He reached out for an interview, got me on a call, then asked me to share my screen to demo my product.

I keep screen sharing disabled in Zoom, so I had to restart the app. When I rejoined, system dialogs popped up, one of which asked for remote access. Huge red flag. 

I denied all permissions and ended the call immediately.

I spent hours checking my security settings, running a malware scan, and moving my crypto to cold storage. Found others who fell into the same trap with this scammer.

Scammers pose as journalists or investors, get you on a call, then trick you into screen sharing or remote access. If you’re not careful, they can hijack your machine and drain your funds.

My advice: treat any unsolicited Zoom call with extreme skepticism. Better yet, just deny them on sight.

had something similar with a “team” who held multiple interviews and were trying to get me to download their metaverse program to explore it and get familiar with their code base

The idea sounded really dumb and it raised a ton of flags the more I thought about it and fortunately bailed and blocked everyone

onchain app dev, web3 consultant, and regen. I help my clients build, launch, and improve onchain products

Many such cases sadly. Unsolicited downloads are always sketch. Anything that touches my disk is a big no no.