Urgent · Exposed phrase
I entered my phrase on a website «to check it»: what to do RIGHT NOW
Act first, read later. If your phrase has passed through a website, a chat or a form, assume it is no longer yours and that the wallet can be emptied at any moment. The only thing that matters now is getting the money out before they do.
The first five minutes
- Create a new wallet, from scratch, with a new phrase, in an app you install yourself from the official site. Write the new phrase on paper.
- Send all your money to that new wallet, starting with the most valuable.
- Check every network and every account of the compromised wallet: whatever you leave there will be lost.
- Never use the old phrase again to receive anything.
If you don’t have enough balance to move the funds
This is the most distressing situation: you need a small amount to pay the transfer fee and you don’t have it. Get that amount and send it to an address in that wallet, knowing you are in a race. There are automated thieves that empty a compromised wallet in the same second it receives anything. If that happens to you, don’t keep trying: you will not win that race.
Afterwards, and only afterwards
- Check what that website actually was: if it asked for your phrase, it was fake, however official it looked.
- Check whether the link came by DM, through an advert or through a sponsored search result. All three are common routes.
- If you entered the phrase elsewhere too, assume every associated wallet is compromised.
- Warn the forum or group where the link reached you: you’ll spare someone else.
If the money is already gone, the honest answer is that it is not recovered. It is explained plainly in why «we recover stolen crypto» is almost always a lie, and there you will also see why the person about to message you offering to get it back is the second scam, not the solution.