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Investor Lost $1.04 Million Due To Address Poisoning...

As reported by Scam Sniffer, 5 minutes ago, a victim lost $1.04 million by copying the wrong address from a contaminated transfer history.

victim:
0xA87938CdCB07B1CF47Bc12F993Aa648F0A5a7be9

wrong address:
0x73435a475d47519b4424979b55f8a8482bca79f7

correct address:
0x73465924d8a81318e184d7aa9be526ca50ca79f7

Address poisoning in crypto is a scam where a Scamers tries to trick a crypto wallet owner into sending funds to the scammer’s address.
An address-poisoning scammer looks for wallet addresses that interact regularly with each other. It could be friends or family members sending cryptocurrencies and NFTs to each other.
The scammer will use a vanity address generator to create a wallet address that closely resembles your or your friends wallet address.

Crypto wallet addresses can be as long as 42 alphanumeric characters, which makes them difficult to remember. Most crypto wallet users have fallen into the short-cut trap of checking the first and last four characters.

The address-poisoning scammer looks to exploit this habit. The scammer will aim to generate a fake address with the same first and last four characters as the victim’s wallet address.

Now that the fake address is ready, the scammer will send a small amount of crypto or NFTs (or even a $0 token transaction) to the victim’s wallet address.

The victim’s transaction history has now been “poisoned.” The deceitful transaction will appear on the victim’s wallet transaction history. 

The scammer hopes you or your Friend will copy-paste the scam address from the transaction history and send funds to the scam address instead of the legitimate one.