Deceptive Sites

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Crypto wallet-draining sites disguised as ordinary participation opportunities | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: Fake airdrops, rewards, mints, and participation sites can turn a routine wallet connection into unauthorized loss. The important question is not what the page promises, but what the wallet action actually authorizes.

Victim-reporting obstacles that allow deceptive sites to remain operational | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: Reporting a deceptive site is rarely one action. Victims may need to contact a platform, host, registrar, payment provider, ad network, browser-security service, and law enforcement through separate channels, which creates delay and dropped handoffs.