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		paulpauper on Jan 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Still Got Your Crypto: In Response to Wallet.fail’... i have occasionally heard stores of ppl losing funds from hardware wallets. usually it's after buying it on Amazon.

coralreef on Jan 1, 2019 [–]

Its usually because the buyer was duped into following a fake instruction setup. The scammer will produce an official physical 'card' of recovery words that ships with the wallet, tricking the user into putting money into accounts that the scammer also has access to.

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