General Security Etiquette

Do not share your private keys or seeds

Seeds are a list of 12/24 english words that is used to generate your primary private key. Private keys are what is used to generate your wallet address (which is the public key). No one legitimate will ever ask you to share these since these provide full access to your wallet.

Inspect all outgoing transactions

Almost all on-chain attacks require you to sign a transaction or call a write function that provides an attacker access to your tokens/wallet. Always inspect all transactions you are signing to make sure it is doing something you intended.

Mods will not DM you

Group moderators and administrators and even most normal users will never direct message (DM) you unless pre-agreed upon in a public group chat. This is a standard etiquette found in all crypto groups that should be followed for security reasons.

Start DMs from group chats

When DM-ing someone, ensure they have publicly agreed to be DM-ed in the group chat. On your side, initiate the chat by accessing their user profile from the same group chat. Manually DM-ing them via their user handle leaves you open to potential typos that could lead to a scammer especially when it comes to high-profile users.