Yearn Finance doppelganger scam tries to trick visitors out of their keys

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Decentralized finance yield farming platform Yearn Finance has a doppelganger that is tricking visitors into sharing the private keys of their cryptocurrency wallets.

The scam website of Yearn Finance perfectly copies almost every aspect of the original yearn.

Finance website down to its design, website copy and even domain name.

The scammers behind the website chose the domain name "Yaerm.finance," making it look extremely similar to "Yearn.finace."

Finance page that looks exactly like Yearn Finance's official website.

After scrolling down from the first window that appears, one finds that the website contains a strange guide to "Seven easy hairstyles."

Similar to the original website, the scam website also has six different options in the first window.

Another website is posing as Trust Wallet to cheat crypto users.

The Trust Wallet-like website has a call-to-action button that reads "Claim Prize" and upon clicking, opens a window that requests the users to enter their private keys.

Users who are new to crypto and are not aware of the importance of keeping their private keys "Private" may easily fall for these scams and give the scammers easy access to their funds.

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