10 Safe Wallets Have Lost $2.05 Million to "Address Poisoning" Attacks In The Past Week...

According to the Scam Sniffer, about 10 safe wallet addresses have lost about $2.05 Million within  past week due to Address Poisoning Attack ….

a multi-sign Safe wallet lost $1.45 million to address poisoning attacks about 1 day ago!

he wants to send it to 

0xB087cf...947f5870

but sent to

0xB08726...b3675870

one of the victims held $10m but only lost 400k "luckily".

as per the  data on-chain, the same attacker has stolen $5.05 million from 21 victims in the past 4 months.

"Address Poisoning Attack"  is a scam where a scammer 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 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 the one of the investors will copy-paste the scam address from the transaction history and send funds to the scam address instead of the legitimate one.

stay safe …