Nonocoiner

I don't think you are scammed.

Did you follow this procedure?:

Navigate to the Transactions page. Next to your transaction, use the button to "Switch to L1". This action will ask you to switch to the Ethereum Mainnet network, enabling you to proceed with the verification process.

Proceed to then use the same button which will update to a new status enabling you to "Verify" your withdrawal. This action will prompt you to complete verification with your wallet by signing a transaction.

Seven days after you have verified your withdrawal, you can complete your withdrawal by returning to the Transactions page. Use the "Complete" button which will appear next to your transaction.

(Copy pasta from their FAQ)

I personally prefer to use third party bridges, these are much faster and generally cheaper to use. But of course always make sure they are legitimate first, several of those bridges are listed on the Base website.

Using ASN here too, they threatened to close our account if I wouldn't reply within a couple of weeks. Saw it too late as we were on holiday. It made me quite nervous, as there was no way I could reply in time. Of course it would likely be the same for any other bank.

They never denied any transaction, but I never transacted fiat with Binance, only Kraken and Bitvavo.

The handling by the aml department was a fucking mess by the way. They lost the private documents I sent them using their highly secured "black box", as they called it. Later they somehow found back the documents somewhere on another PC, while they initially promised the documents would never leave their "black box".

Incredible.

3. The Netherlands

I got very annoying questions from my bank once after a couple of "irregular" transactions though.

The Dutch banks are pushed by the government to do invasive, and privacy killing, aml checks.

And these weren't even really large transactions, related to reputable exchanges only.

That said, it looks like they accepted my explanations as they didn't close my account.

Not sure if you've been notified by the mods already, but this sub is for non financial discussion only.

You can try r/ethfinance (most activity on the daily thread) and r/ethtrader for financial discussion.

So to create a paper wallet I need to set up a new wallet on metamask. That means the wallet will be connected to the internet at least once. Am I right?

That would work, but it's not really a cold and secure wallet then.

To be 100% secure you need to create the seed phrase offline. You can do that using a hardware wallet, or a wallet installed on a PC that's never connected to the internet for example.

There are solutions available, but I can't recommend any since I don't have recent experience with this.

Assuming the see phrase is created secure, and stored 100% offline 100% off the time, it's perfectly safe to store your ETH.

For NFT's and tokens it's also important to only interact with trusted contracts, but since you're creating a cold wallet there wouldn't be any interaction with contracts anyway.

The title of the article is pure fud, and I think the article doesn't describe the issue very well, but it looks like the issue itself is real.

The original report describes the issue much better, and without fud: https://drops.scamsniffer.io/post/wallet-drainers-starts-using-create2-bypass-wallet-security-alert/

So it looks like scammers found a way to circumvent wallet warnings (like Rabby has for example) for known scam addresses. I don't understand how users are lured into using the contracts that sends their funds to these addresses though?