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Hackers and scammers are EXTREMELY clever! Please buy yourself a Bitkey!

Published April 19, 2025
Joel Bomgar
by Joel Bomgar
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00:01 Hey everyone. Hackers and scammers are 00:04 extremely clever and they are incessant 00:07 these days. Uh people keep sending me uh 00:10 screenshots of text message that they 00:12 supposedly have gotten from Coinbase 00:15 about their account being compromised 00:16 and they're supposed to call a number to 00:18 secure it. Of course, there's hackers on 00:21 scammers on the other side of that phone 00:22 number. People are sending me 00:24 screenshots of emails they're getting 00:26 where people are, you know, supposedly 00:28 their accounts have been compromised or 00:30 tech support needs access to help them 00:32 secure their accounts or there's 00:33 fraudulent activity and they're supposed 00:35 to call this number to resolve 00:37 potentially fraudulent activity on their 00:39 account. Hackers and scammers are trying 00:41 everything. They're blasting tens of 00:44 thousands of text messages every day, 00:46 probably millions every day to people 00:48 all over that are claiming to be from 00:51 Google, claiming to be from Coinbase, 00:54 claiming to be from anybody that would 00:56 give them access to your accounts. Um, 00:60 one second, let me get through traffic 01:01 here. Um, they especially want to get in 01:04 Coinbase accounts because obviously that 01:06 gives them access to your Bitcoin uh if 01:08 it's in um if it's in Coinbase. But the 01:12 what they really want is access to your 01:13 Google account because most people use 01:16 the Google password manager and they 01:18 have all their passwords in there 01:20 including Coinbase. And most people use 01:22 Google authenticator for two-factor 01:24 authentication. And all of their 01:26 two-factor authentication codes are 01:28 backed up to their Google account. And 01:30 Google does not require two-factor 01:32 authentication to be on on the account, 01:34 which is insane. I cannot believe that 01:36 Google does not require two-factor 01:38 authentication to be on on a Google a 01:40 Gmail account. So hackers and scammers 01:43 are constantly trying to hack Coinbase 01:45 accounts because it gives them access to 01:46 your Bitcoin or Google accounts because 01:49 it gives them access to everything. If 01:51 they can get access to your Gmail 01:52 account, they can use that Gmail account 01:55 to log into anywhere that the that the 01:57 Gmail uh Google password manager has the 02:00 password saved for. And for all of those 02:03 sites, which probably all of them 02:04 require two-factor authentication, they 02:07 have access then to your uh Google 02:09 authenticator to get two-factor 02:11 authentication codes off of that. Now, 02:13 if your two-factor authentication codes 02:15 go to your phone as a text message 02:18 rather than two-factor authentication 02:20 codes coming from Google Authenticator, 02:22 then obviously they do not have access 02:24 to that. Unless, of course, they your 02:27 AT&T or Verizon or Ceasefire or whatever 02:29 you're using is backed up in your uh 02:32 Google password manager, which point 02:35 they of course will log into AT&T. They 02:38 will port your phone number in the 02:40 middle of the night over to a device 02:41 that they can control using once again 02:45 your Google password manager and your 02:46 saved AT&T credentials plus the 02:49 two-factor authentication code that 02:51 comes to uh off of Google Authenticator. 02:54 Now again, if if you get a text message 02:56 from AT&T as your two-factor 02:59 authentication code, then they're stuck 03:00 because they have access to your AT&T 03:02 account, but not the two-factor 03:03 authentication code because it's going 03:05 to a phone number they're trying to port 03:07 and they can't have access to it. But 03:09 all of this to say, you need to buy a 03:11 bit key and secure your Bitcoin with 03:14 Bitkey. 03:16 www.bitkey.world. Bit tke 03:18 ke.orld. The link is in this video 03:20 description. Please go buy yourself a 03:22 Bit Key for 150 bucks. It's the best 03:24 money you'll ever spend. It is the most 03:27 secure way to keep your Bitcoin. Now, 03:29 BitKey thought of everything. It's made 03:31 by the company that is behind the Square 03:33 payment terminals. The company name is 03:35 Block Incorporated. It's a publicly 03:37 traded company in the United States. 03:39 It's a large company. The CEO is Jack 03:41 Dorsey, the founder of Twitter. He 03:43 started two companies, Twitter, which he 03:45 sold to Elon Musk, and uh Square, which 03:48 he rebranded to Block because they were 03:50 doing stuff related to Bitcoin and it 03:53 was a sort of a hat tip to the Block 03:55 chain. So anyway, they renamed 03:57 themselves Block, but anyway, they make 03:59 the Cash App mobile app. They also make 04:02 the Square payment terminals and they do 04:03 a bunch of other stuff, but one of their 04:05 products is the Bit Key device to secure 04:07 Bitcoin because Jack Dorsey is a big fan 04:09 of Bitcoin. So they thought of 04:12 everything. If you lose your phone, you 04:14 can restore your uh the key to your 04:17 bitco bitcoin to a new phone with the 04:20 bit key device. If you lose the bit key 04:22 device, you can restore uh the key to 04:25 your a new bit device from your phone. 04:28 So if you lose your phone, you can 04:30 restore from the bit key device. If you 04:31 loit key device, you can restore from 04:33 your phone. If you lose both of them at 04:35 the same time, all you have to do is uh 04:38 use uh what's called trusted contacts. 04:41 Trusted contacts is a contact uh of 04:44 yours that can help you decrypt an 04:47 encrypted copy of your key that is 04:49 stored in your iCloud account or your 04:51 Google account. So even if you lose your 04:53 phone and your Bit Key device 04:56 simultaneously, you can use one of you 04:58 can leverage one of your trusted 05:00 contacts which is a family member or a 05:03 friend or something like that to uh read 05:05 off a decryption code uh that will 05:08 enable you to get access to your Bitcoin 05:10 because the key is saved uh to your 05:13 Bitcoin in your iCloud account or Google 05:16 account. So even if you lo the Bit Key 05:17 device and you lose your phone, one of 05:20 your trusted contacts can get you helped 05:22 you get access. And if that's still not 05:25 good enough for you because you're still 05:27 worried about it, you can set up 05:29 inheritance planning in your BitKey 05:31 device. And if you die, then after 6 05:34 months, the person who um who is set up 05:38 to inherit the Bitcoin from your BitKey 05:40 device, which requires them to also have 05:42 a Bit Key device, that person can for 6 05:45 months, they can go through a process 05:47 with a waiting period to get the uh your 05:50 Bitcoin transferred over to their Bitkey 05:53 device. So, if you're worried that, you 05:55 know, you're going to lose your Bitcoin 05:56 because you're you're going to go down 05:58 in a plane crash and nobody will be able 06:00 to unlock your Bit Key device because 06:02 it's got your fingerprint and obviously 06:04 you're not available and your loved ones 06:07 will not be able to access your iCloud 06:08 account because somehow they just won't. 06:10 Even though obviously that happens all 06:12 the time that people pass away and their 06:15 loved ones get access to their iCloud 06:17 account or Google account which gives 06:18 them access to bank accounts and all 06:20 that sort of stuff. you just have to 06:21 produce a death certificate and go 06:23 through a whole process uh to 06:25 authenticate that you really are the 06:27 loved one and you know all that. But if 06:30 that is a bill, if none of that is good 06:32 enough for you, you can set up 06:33 inheritance planning as a backup to all 06:35 of that. So, in case all of your um you 06:40 know, in case you go down in a plane 06:42 crash, your bit key burns up in a house 06:44 fire, your plane your phone goes down in 06:47 the same plane crash, all your trusted 06:49 contacts happen to be on the same plane, 06:51 they all go down in the plane crash, 06:53 nobody can figure out how to recover any 06:56 of the iCloud accounts for you or any of 06:58 your trusted contacts. Well, then you 07:00 have inher in inheritance planning and 07:02 your loved one will still get your 07:04 Bitcoin after a six-month waiting 07:07 period. And during that time, they have 07:09 to uh you know, they have to go through 07:10 the process and you get lots of alerts 07:12 to your phone, which is at the bottom of 07:14 the ocean presumably, your email 07:17 account, which obviously your loved ones 07:18 should have access to after you pass 07:20 away, asking if you know if you want to 07:23 complete the inheritance process. And 07:26 after a six month, literally a six-month 07:28 waiting period just to make sure you're 07:31 actually super dead and and you're not 07:34 responding to any push notifications and 07:37 you're not responding to any emails and 07:39 you're not you are showing no signs of 07:41 life for more than 6 months, then the 07:44 inheritance process will be allowed to 07:46 move forward to move your Bitcoin to 07:48 your loved one. So, it's really Bit Key 07:51 is genius. They set it up where it's 07:53 basically impossible to lose your 07:55 Bitcoin. As long as you have at least 07:57 one trusted contact set up, there's 07:60 basically no way you could possibly lose 08:02 your Bitcoin. It's super easy to use. 08:04 It's super straightforward. There is 08:06 just no reason not to buy yourself a Bit 08:08 Key. Please, I will be your personal 08:11 technical support representative. If 08:14 you're not comfortable somehow with any 08:15 of this, just call me. I will walk you 08:18 through getting your Bit Key set up. I 08:20 will answer questions. You can message 08:22 me, you can text me at 08:25 601-2070813. I've got an entire video 08:28 which I will post in the comments about 08:30 how to set up a Bitkey device. It's 08:32 super simple. I walk Ali Shaw through 08:34 setting a bit a bit key device from 08:36 scratch complete with, you know, 08:38 screenshots and everything. I promise 08:40 you can do it. I promise you're not 08:42 going to mess it up. I promise it's so 08:44 unbelievably simple. You're going to 08:46 think, "Wow, I should have done that a 08:48 long time ago." And when you realize 08:50 that for most people access to their 08:53 Bitcoin on Coinbase is as simple as 08:55 hacking their Google account because 08:58 again they get your password manager on 09:00 Google. If they hack your Google 09:01 account, your G Gmail account, they get 09:04 your uh your your password manager on 09:06 Google and if Coinbase is in there, 09:08 they're going to have that password. And 09:10 if two-factor authentication is set up 09:13 uh with Google authenticator, a hacker 09:15 or a scammer is going to get that too 09:17 because that's all backed up to the 09:19 Google or the uh the Apple iCloud or 09:22 Google Cloud with the Google uh 09:25 authenticator app. So, please buy 09:27 yourself a Bit Key. I promise it's 09:28 straightforward. You can do it. There is 09:30 absolutely no reason to trust someone 09:33 else with your Bitcoin that can get 09:35 hacked or scammed or even trust yourself 09:37 not to get scammed with people calling 09:40 constantly claiming to be Coinbase, 09:42 claiming to be Google, claiming to be 09:43 securing your account, claiming to be 09:46 claiming that there was unauthorized 09:47 activity on your account and they just 09:49 need you to verify a few things for them 09:52 to secure your account. Of course, 09:53 they're trying to steal your Bitcoin. 09:55 So, please get yourself a bit key. Your 09:57 Bitcoin is way safer. and they thought 09:60 of everything and there's just no 10:02 possible way to mess up BitKey again. As 10:04 long as you have at least one trusted 10:05 contact set up, you're not going to mess 10:07 it up. You're not going to lose your 10:08 Bitcoin. As long as you have at least 10:10 one trusted contact set up, you can do 10:12 it. You should do it. Your Bitcoin, it 10:15 should not be one hack away from a 10:18 scammer or a hacker. Bit key eliminates 10:20 all of that risk. Please get yourself a 10:22 Bit Key. And if you can't afford it 10:24 because it's 10:26 $149, message me and I will I will send 10:30 you $50 so that the price is $99 for 10:33 you. If the price is the prohibiting 10:36 factor, I will get the price personally 10:38 out of my own pocket below a hundred 10:41 bucks by sending you $50 to enable you 10:43 to get a bit key and store your Bitcoin 10:46 out of the hands of hackers and out of 10:48 the hands of scammers. Please do it. 10:50 Please, please, please do it. Even if 10:51 you're too scared to set it up right 10:53 now, just buy it. The the mere fact that 10:56 you're holding it will make you more 10:57 comfortable with it. And and look, you 10:59 can set it up and not transfer any 11:00 Bitcoin to it. You can just set it up 11:02 and once you see how easy it is, my 11:04 guess is you'll say, "Hey, it makes 11:06 sense." But look, if there's some big 11:08 scare and you need to feel comfortable 11:11 transferring to your Bitkey, well, at 11:12 least you got it. Go ahead and buy one. 11:14 There's no reason not to. You need a 11:16 Bitkey, everyone. Link is in the 11:18 description. Please buy a Bitkey. You 11:19 won't regret it. Thanks.

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