Youtube antiscam idea

Bonjour et merci pour tous ces éclaircissements.

J’ai créer un topic, il y a quelques jour, pour essayer de trouver des personnes qui se sont fait arnaquer comme moi et pour le moment aucune personne s’est manifestée.

Pour le wallet je suis convaincu que c’est un “trust wallet” ou “métamask” ou “du même type”.

Après une recherche plus poussée, je suis tombé sur une adresse “bnb1fnd0k5l4p3ck2j9x9dp36chk059w977pszdgdz” qui correspond à “un trust wallet” de binance.
Il y a actuellement plus d’un millions “d’ada” sur ce portefeuille, ainsi que des milliers d’autres cryptomonnaies.

Un wallet comme “trust wallet” au vu de ce que je sais, personne d’autre que le propriétaire peut y avoir accès pour y déplacer des fonds sauf que n’importe qui peut y avoir accès visuellement, ainsi qu’à toutes les transactions.

Je pense que Binance qui est le créateur de ce wallet ne respecte pas la loi puisque ces wallets n’ont absolument pas besoin de KYC( c’est donc une belle porte ouverte pour les pirates, les escrocs, les terroristes, le blanchiment d’argent, etc…)

En conclusion, je pense que mes “ada” sont perdus à jamais, car comme je vous l’ai dit dans un message précédent ni la police, ni les tribunaux en FRANCE( mon dossier a été classé sans suite par le procureur de la république, une semaine seulement après ma plainte à la gendarmerie nationale) agiront malgré tous les hacks que l’on peut constater tous les jours ou presque partout dans le monde.

En tout cas je vous remercie pour ce que vous avez fait pour moi.

Bonne journée

Cordialement,

Chris.

It is necessary to oblige the developers of all cardano wallets to implement an ad before creating a wallet containing a warning about fraud methods. And also add a menu with info about known scammers to wallets. And only after reading and answering a number of questions, it is allowed to use the wallet. You also need to create a fixed topic on this forum with information about fraud methods, then embed the link of this topic in the warning window before using the wallet.

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Another option is to create labels for well-known scam addresses. Create a replenished database with such addresses and attach it to wallets. And at the time of signing the transaction, when you enter the password for confirmation, the recipient’s address is compared with the database of scam addresses and, if detected, appears :warning: a sign with the message that this address was found in the database of scam addresses. The database update should occur together with synchronization with the blockchain or at the time of signing the transaction. Now there are many well-known scam addresses that make themselves new addresses. So, we need a bot that can find new addresses in explorer. Or connect the database to explorer so that it can signal the creation of a new address, followed by writing to the database of scam addresses.

How exactly would you identify that an address is a scam address?

We would always first need a few people reporting the address (either victims or people that were tried to be scammed, but got it early enough). And if we set the bar too low, people will start reporting non-scam addresses just out of malice. And even more people, because they do not know better – I have seen enough accusations that the SundaeSwap contract address is a scammer’s address or even the change address of the people themselves, because they did not understand the UTxO model.

There are KNOWN scam addresses that need to be marked and monitored as they create new addresses. Already known ones should be entered into the database, not guessed.

You CAN’T monitor if a person owning one address creates another address!

It is indistinguishable from YOUR new address until it is USED!

They typically have the addresses, where the victims transfer there ADA. These are mostly only used for a couple of hours. And then there are some addresses to collect the stolen funds. These are used a little longer. But the fact that they are connected can only be seen AFTER the first prey has been collected, not BEFORE.

Take for example the Rocketpad scam project, the wallet address is publicly indicated on their website. Such addresses can be marked somehow!?

Yep, for those it might be a good idea.

But we are in a thread about YouTube scams, here, almost all victims here fell for it in hours of creating the address. The functionality wouldn’t have helped them.

For the longer-lived scam projects, it is more of a question of when to classify them as “most probably scam”. There was a lengthy discussion here about Ravendex and it took quite some time to come to that conclusion. And that’s just the conclusion of a few people on a forum.

If, for example, the Cardano Foundation decides to maintain a list of addresses people should be warned about by ideally all wallet apps, there has to be a process, when and under which conditions who decides to put an address on this list. And wallet apps would still be free to ignore the list (although they probably shouldn’t and hopefully wouldn’t if the process will be okayish).