That's indeed a tragic and costly mistake. Here's what happened:
Approximately 6 hours ago, an individual created a new Ethereum address, "0xd9A1b0B1e1aE382DbDc898Ea68012FfcB2853a91," and initiated a transaction by transferring 0.05 ETH to this new address.
Unfortunately, a scammer seized this opportunity by generating an address with identical starting and ending letters and transferred 0 ETH to it, causing this transfer to appear in the individual's transaction history.
Due to many wallets obscuring the middle part of addresses with "..." for better UI presentation, the individual, when attempting to transfer WBTC to their new address, inadvertently copied the address generated by the scammer, as both addresses shared the same starting and ending letters.
Consequently, the individual mistakenly sent 1,155 WBTC (equivalent to $71M) to the scammer's address.
Address: 0x1E227979f0b5BC691a70DEAed2e0F39a6F538FD5
