Can I trust Consensys / Starknet / captcha.bot?

[jaraco]

I’m a relatively well-known open source maintainer. Today I got an email in Chinese from a random stranger offering to help me set up my GitHub account to enroll with Starknet. While I expect the email is a scam, it got me looking into Starknet and trying to learn more about it, as it seems I may qualify for a drop.

In an attempt to learn more, I tried to sign up to the Consensys Discord server, but when I did, I couldn’t do anything without first verifying with captcha.bot. While verifying, it was asking for a lot of permissions with which I did not feel comfortable.

So I asked Gemini for advice, and here’s what it said. Ugh. Other sources aren’t reassuring.

I’d like to create a Starknet wallet so that I can register for the drop.

So my question(s):

• Is Gemini being overly cautious here?
• Should I be distrustful of Consensys and captcha.bot?
• Is it safe to install the Starknet Snap into my MetaMask account? Under what circumstances would it be unsafe?

[tuya]

hi @jaraco ,welcome to MetaMask community.

1. Do not contact the person in the email, it may want to defraud you of the token you may obtain.

2. Link your github account here to see if you qualify for it.
   provisions. starknet. io
   

   

3. If you are qualified, and if the claim page does not support MetaMask snap’s starknet account , you can download the Argent wallet(search it in the Chrome store) and create a new account.

[nakedwinnie]

The link to the discord server is Consensys, please be careful of any other scams.

When you first join the server, you will be asked to verify via the bot, this is a legitimate process.