Reading a suspicious Solana letter before you touch a link
How readers in the wallet-safety library look at a pushy Solana message without typing a recovery phrase anywhere.
Most of the worrying post we see at the reading room claims the same few things: a wallet is at risk, a reward is waiting, or a support person needs you to prove you hold the coins. The hurry is the tell. A real decision about self-custody can wait until you are at your own table.
Read the message on paper if you can. Printing it, or copying the words into a notebook by hand, lets you look at the claim without pressing a button. Notice who says they are writing, whether they already know something public about you, and whether the next step is a page that asks for the recovery phrase.
A hardware signer confirms a transfer on its own screen. A letter that tells you to type the phrase into a website is asking for the backup itself. No support desk needs those words to help you. That sentence is worth keeping on a card in the binder.
Links can wear a familiar name and still open somewhere else. If you do not recognise the path, leave it. You can reach a company you already use by typing the address you have used before, not by following the letter. If the letter names an exchange, the path is the exchange's own site that you already bookmarked, and even then you do not type a self-custody phrase into an exchange page.
Bring the printed letter to a study hour if you want a second pair of eyes. Leave the links unopened. The librarian will talk about the shape of the claim, not about your keys. If the letter has already frightened you into copying a phrase somewhere, book a desk session and say so in general terms. We will talk about copies and about what to revoke, without asking you to read the words aloud.