Techie buys fake Ledger Nano S+ hardware crypto wallet and almost falls for phishing — a convincing clone would have caught newbies unaware

A fake Ledger Nano S+ bought on a Chinese marketplace turned out to be a sophisticated scam using malicious hardware and software to steal seed phrases.

The counterfeit device spoofed its identity and relied on a malicious companion app and website to phish wallet data from users.

Ledger's authenticity checks exposed the fraud, underscoring the need to buy crypto wallets only from official sources and verify devices carefully.