Hey everyone: When someone goes to one of our websites with a MetaMask browser plugin active, it throws up a phishing warning and prevents the user from going there. But that’s a false positive. Does anyone know who we can report this to so it can be looked at and removed? Thanks.

Hi friend! @thepurple Welcome to the MetaMask community forums! This should answer your question: https://metamask.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4428045875483-Error-Ethereum-Phishing-Detection-warning-when-connecting-wallet-to-a-site Let me know if I can be of any further help. Best regards 2Cu4 …

Thank you! I opened a github issue as requested in that article.

Great! Now it’s simply a waiting game :grin:

Yup, definitely a waiting game. I am guessing that handling false positives is not high on the priority list since the Pull Request is still open. There’s no indication on github of how long it usually takes to handle something like this. If anyone knows of a formal policy or have any experience …

Hi @thepurple , Can you please share your Github PR #?

PR# 9680 Unfortunately this forum is not allowing me to provide a direct link in posts so I can only provide the above number.

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