First, take a look at these two addresses:
0x8532FA14……0543D4
0x853244c7……D543D4
Above is the Binance hacker’s address, holding 197,460 ETH worth about $440 million.
The one below doesn’t belong to the hacker. Someone created it by “cloning” the hacker’s address, making the beginning and end almost identical.
This cloned address keeps sending tiny amounts like 0.0001 ETH to the hacker.
This is a classic address-poisoning scam: when you copy an address from your transaction history, you might copy the fake one instead, sending your money straight into the scammer’s pocket.
The hacker who stole $6.3 billion has now become someone else’s phishing target.
I went through 192 transactions at this address and found that it had long since become more than just the hacker’s wallet—it was the busiest “wishing well” on the entire network.
🙏 Begging for handouts
Someone sent a prayer:
"Dear brother, you’re in a very dangerous situation. A small donation of ETH could help me start my life over. I’ll pray to God for you."
They say the other person is in danger, then ask them for money.
Someone else wrote what sounds like a business proposal:
"Everyone else is asking you for money. I’m only asking you to make a decision. 50 ETH is just 0.000026% of your holdings."
The pitch is heartfelt, but the math doesn’t check out. It’s actually 0.0256%—a full 1,000 times more.
Even more absurd, quite a few people sent the hacker a few hundredths of an ETH before begging for a handout—and paid extra for gas, too.
Sending money to the hacker to ask the hacker for a handout—I don’t get the order of operations here.
🎭 The ENS names are even more entertaining than the messages
· ilovekimjongun.eth: This time, North Korean hackers are suspected of being behind it. You know what it means when a message comes from this name.
· doughboy-jason-calacanis.eth: Sent more than a dozen transactions in one night
· halloweenday.eth: Happy Halloween
🗑 Some people even airdropped junk tokens to the hacker
21,000 BTE, 95,000 NEWT, and a pile of tokens with names no one recognizes.
People are even trying to make a quick buck off the hacker’s wallet.
Now, on to the serious stuff
1️⃣ Don’t interact with the hacker’s address. Transfers and messages are permanently recorded on-chain. Your address could be flagged by risk-control tools, and you may be questioned when you try to withdraw funds later.
2️⃣ Phishing is rampant during high-profile events. Double-check the entire address before sending funds—don’t just check the first and last few characters. Don’t sell or approve unknown tokens you receive. Treat anyone claiming they can “help you recover your assets” as a scammer.
3️⃣ What really matters is when and how these nearly 200,000 ETH will be sold. Stablecoins can be frozen; ETH can’t. It’s a sword hanging over the market.
Will the hacker reply to any of these?
Who do you think is most likely to get the money? Let us know in the comments 👇