Hello and welcome to the Tuesday, February 4th,

2025 edition of the Sands and its Storm Center's Stormcast.

My name is Johannes Ulrich, and I'm recording from Jacksonville, Florida.

The day today wrote up a little problem that we actually keep having with this podcast

whenever I posted to YouTube, and that's spam.

But the spam is a little bit different in this case.

The spam basically, as so often, says how nice the video is,

but then states that they have a question that they have a crypto coin wallet,

and they would like to transfer the money

out of that crypto coin wallet. And then they give you the seat phrase for the crypto coin wallet.

Now, what surprised me when I saw these was why did they give me the seat phrase? The seat phrase

is essentially the secret

key that you should never leak for your wallet. DDA dove into this deeper and also found

a couple other write-ups about this particular spam. What happens here is, first of all, the seed

phrase is just human readable, easier to

memorize a way to express the secret key. So yes, you can turn that into the secret key. The problem,

however, in this case is that this wallet is protected with two secret keys and the secret key

they're giving you is not authorized to actually transfer money out of the wallet.

So what they're attempting here to do is for you to get greedy, attempt to transfer the money

out. In order to transfer

money out, you first have to deposit a little bit of cryptocurrency into the wallet in order to

pay for the transaction fee. And that's what they're after. They wait for you to actually deposit

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