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A friend lost $535,000 USDT yesterday, and he even sent a test transfer first. His wallet wasn't hacked and his keys never leaked. He lost it to a bot.
The test transfer arrived fine. Within seconds, a bot sent 1 USDT to his wallet from a fake address that started and ended with the same characters as the real one. Now the fake address was sitting in his transaction history, right next to the real one.
When he went to send the full amount, he copied the address from that history and picked the fake one. The money was gone in under 30 seconds, swapped out of USDT before Tether could freeze it.
This is called address poisoning, and it's running at industrial scale. The bot that got him has run over 6 million transactions, and it goes after anyone moving large amounts.
Here's how to make sure it never happens to you:
• Never copy an address from your transaction history or a block explorer
• After a test transfer, copy the address again from the original message the receiver sent you
• Check every character, because these bots match both the start and the end
• Save verified addresses in your wallet's address book with names
Now open your wallet and go through your history. If there's a tiny deposit from an address you don't recognize, a bot has already marked you. Tell me below if you find one.
Repost this post and share this to the person you know who moves the most money on-chain.
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A friend lost $535,000 USDT yesterday, and he even sent a test transfer first. His wallet wasn't hacked and his keys never leaked. He lost it to a bot.
The test transfer arrived fine. Within seconds, a bot sent 1 USDT to his wallet from a fake address that started and ended with the same characters as the real one. Now the fake address was sitting in his transaction history, right next to the real one.
When he went to send the full amount, he copied the address from that history and picked the fake one. The money was gone in under 30 seconds, swapped out of USDT before Tether could freeze it.
This is called address poisoning, and it's running at industrial scale. The bot that got him has run over 6 million transactions, and it goes after anyone moving large amounts.
Here's how to make sure it never happens to you:
• Never copy an address from your transaction history or a block explorer
• After a test transfer, copy the address again from the original message the receiver sent you
• Check every character, because these bots match both the start and the end
• Save verified addresses in your wallet's address book with names
Now open your wallet and go through your history. If there's a tiny deposit from an address you don't recognize, a bot has already marked you. Tell me below if you find one.
Repost this post and share this to the person you know who moves the most money on-chain.
$BTC $XAU $ETH
