Have you noticed how many times you need to hit approve when interacting with crypto? Token approval, contract approval, transaction approval—sometimes 3 to 5 confirmations just for a single swap or liquidity provision.
Here's the catch: after clicking through so many prompts, most users stop actually reading what they're approving. They're running on autopilot by the third or fourth signature request.
And that's precisely the window scammers love. When approval fatigue sets in, phishing becomes trivial. One malicious contract hidden among legitimate approvals, and users rubber-stamp their way into a loss. The irony? The multi-signature security model meant to protect you becomes the very mechanism that works against user awareness.
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CoffeeOnChain
· 01-16 04:51
Really, clicking approve until your finger hurts and still nothing happens—this is when you're handing a knife to the scammer.
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CryptoComedian
· 01-16 04:47
Laughing and then crying, approving five times in a row really turned me into a statue, and then malicious contracts just sneaked in like that.
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OldLeekConfession
· 01-16 04:29
Approve five times and confirm, and I knew I was going to be scammed again today haha
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ETHmaxi_NoFilter
· 01-16 04:27
It's really crazy. I often just blindly click approve since they're all contract requests, and I can't tell them apart at all...
The Approval Fatigue Problem
Have you noticed how many times you need to hit approve when interacting with crypto? Token approval, contract approval, transaction approval—sometimes 3 to 5 confirmations just for a single swap or liquidity provision.
Here's the catch: after clicking through so many prompts, most users stop actually reading what they're approving. They're running on autopilot by the third or fourth signature request.
And that's precisely the window scammers love. When approval fatigue sets in, phishing becomes trivial. One malicious contract hidden among legitimate approvals, and users rubber-stamp their way into a loss. The irony? The multi-signature security model meant to protect you becomes the very mechanism that works against user awareness.