I am currently looking at my ethereum wallet and it shows that a transaction happened overnight and wiped my whole balance. I was trying to transfer some funds from my cold wallet. I went on www dot ether-wall dot com and logged on with my private key. I was looking at the rates fluctuating and was waiting before to engage a transaction on shapeshit.
I decided not to go through and i notice that my balance was not showing on the right-hand side of the screen. i went on etherscan and myetherwallet.com sites this morning and i discovered that 189 ether were withdrawn and my balance is now 0
I am not sure what happened and why?
Anyone could help me and clarify if my 189 ether got stolen? And is there a way to get support or help to recover that transaction?!? or ban the thief!
Best Answer
This was a phishing attack.
The true URL for MyEtherWallet is https://www.myetherwallet.com
You went to ether-wall dot com. Always check that your connection is over HTTPS.
There's not much we can do. The phishing site does come up as a sponsored ad on Google, which is likely what caught you.
You can report the phishing scam to Google here