Phishing Attacks

With an increased interest in cryptocurrency worldwide, cryptocurrency units value are also increased. This situation turned cryptocurrency into a target not only by the investors but the cyber attackers. While cyber attacks has different types and techniques, last target is real and individual user.

The word "Phishing" that we translate to Turkish as ''oltalama/yemleme'', is derived from the English word "Fishing". It means accessing a user's online password and user information illegally in digital environments. As we can comprehend from the case, cyber attacks are not specified to crypto-currency platforms, it happens in all platforms such as internet banking, social accounts or all online digital platforms which contains user information and password.

Koinim gives priority to user privacy and safety at account verification, transfers and all buy/sell transactions. Considering these priorities, it takes precaution by updating related system and basis consistently against cyber attacks.

Koinim strictly doesn't give internet advertisements. Yet attackers who takes close Domain to Koinim for phishing attack, give Google advertisement. Fake sites can be created in cross linguistic letters or numbers so alike to Koinim's name and listed higher on lead capture page.  Example of Google search results of fake sites and fake homepage opens when clicking Google advertisement link are showed below.                           

Every online transactions is a serious threat when precautions are not taken. These are the precautions our users should be careful about above our precautions to prevent financial damage on Phishing attacks:

•      Do not rely on the Koinim advertisements you see on the internet.
•      Do not click on the advertisements when you google Koinim.  
•      Fake sites can be created in cross linguistic letters or numbers so alike to Koinim's name and listed higher on lead capture page.
•      Before you type your e-mail address and password, make you sure the link on the address bar is safe which start with https://koinim.com/
•      Always use https://koinim.com/ to access Koinim and add this address to favourites of your browser.