A 2015 Ethereum wallet "from the Stone Age" just woke up after 11 years of dormancy, and something scary happened less than 3 minutes later!
The wallet owner transferred 0.05 $ETH as a test. Immediately, scammer bots swooped in, sending small transactions from spoofed addresses that looked exactly like the destination address. This is the dangerous "address poisoning" trick.
Scammers exploit the fact that wallets show only part of an address, slipping fake addresses into your transaction history. They hope you’ll accidentally copy the wrong one when sending a huge amount, like this 2,154 $ETH worth $4.6 million. One careless moment and it’s all gone!
Fortunately, the wallet owner was extremely cautious, checked the full address, and successfully avoided the trap. This incident shows that automated bots are monitoring every old wallet, ready to pounce as soon as there’s any activity.
A hard-earned lesson: ALWAYS CHECK THE ENTIRE WALLET ADDRESS! Do you always do this whenever you send money?
#Crypto #Security
$ETH
The wallet owner transferred 0.05 $ETH as a test. Immediately, scammer bots swooped in, sending small transactions from spoofed addresses that looked exactly like the destination address. This is the dangerous "address poisoning" trick.
Scammers exploit the fact that wallets show only part of an address, slipping fake addresses into your transaction history. They hope you’ll accidentally copy the wrong one when sending a huge amount, like this 2,154 $ETH worth $4.6 million. One careless moment and it’s all gone!
Fortunately, the wallet owner was extremely cautious, checked the full address, and successfully avoided the trap. This incident shows that automated bots are monitoring every old wallet, ready to pounce as soon as there’s any activity.
A hard-earned lesson: ALWAYS CHECK THE ENTIRE WALLET ADDRESS! Do you always do this whenever you send money?
#Crypto #Security
$ETH