What is Phishing?
Tricking someone into revealing secrets or authorising a transfer by impersonating a service they trust.
In Bitcoin the target is almost always the seed phrase or a signature. Common vectors: a fake support account replying within minutes of a public complaint, a "wallet validation" page, an urgent security alert with a link.
The universal defence is that no legitimate service ever needs your seed phrase. Not for support, not for validation, not for recovery, not ever.
Related terms
Seed phrase
Twelve or twenty-four words from which every key in a wallet is derived. Anyone with the words has the coins.
Security & scamsSocial engineering
Manipulating a person rather than attacking a system — the most effective attack vector in Bitcoin by a wide…
Security & scamsCommon Bitcoin scams
Recurring fraud patterns: fake giveaways, impersonated support, romance-investment schemes, fake exchanges…
This definition is part of the Bitcoin Logical glossary. For the fuller explanation, start with Learn, or see the live numbers on The Bitcoin Signal.