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I was doing my first ethereum transaction right now as I got paid this way for the very, very first time.

Received my coins here on my mobile wallet:
0xeE183DC2242b25ef8AE86caf4FEF6d18794893c8
https://etherscan.io/address/0xee183dc2242b25ef8ae86caf4fef6d18794893c8

And sent them right away to an exchange as I was familiar way more with bitcoin than ethereum. As the mobile wallet's QR code reader function (Coinomi) did not work at all, I had to manually type the destination address and of course did a typo.

It was supposed to be sent to: 0x3f13171bedaf7a2b6e69fc12e08ff0429d8b058b

And I sent them there: 0x3f13171bedaf7a2b6e69fc12e08ff0429d8b059b
https://etherscan.io/address/0x3f13171bedaf7a2b6e69fc12e08ff0429d8b059b

I think I am going to die now, what the heck. with bitcoin you cant send to wrong and invalid addresses how is that going with ethers??? :-[

Anybody knows what to do? How on earth could this crypto currency be send to invalid / non existing addresses???

I for sure will never use ethereum again, this is crazy wtf..

Well it appears your screwed. It's a valid address, that's why it worked. Same thing can happen with bitcoin. I'm sorry for your loss.

Wow..if you really hit a valid address then you're really unlucky!

Yeah but otherwise it could've not been sent or am I wrong? and it was just one wrong letter, a number to be precisely.

holy shit... :-[

I'm afraid to tell you that the ETH you used is lost because the transaction is showing confirmed already and also unfortunetly the address was a valid one.
Sorry for your losses
Don't do these type of mistakes again

it's a huge value. why such a thing can happen without being deliberately. the only way if you find the owner of the wallet. I think you're really out of luck bro. I'm sorry to hear that.

Oh no! Sorry to hear that. Non-reversible and no recourse. Unless you know the owner of the wallet and they do you a solid.

Wow, so sorry for your loss!  Was there no way to copy/paste the address?  I don't know if I'd trust myself to manually type in an address without an error.  If I just had to do it I'd double, triple, and quadruple check the address.

unfortunately not, no. i could have sent me the wallet by messenger or mail.. but did not as i was in a rush and just wanted to get them onto the exchange. was a big and truly expensive mistake as i know now.

and i know it was a pretty dumb idea to accept an altcoin i was not familiar with, but it was ONE small typo, a 9 instead of 8 in the address. this is unbelievably bad luck.. ??? :-[ :-[ :-[

Sorry to hear that. This might be a bit naive, but if the owner of that address is honest and a bitcointalk member, maybe you can start a thread trying to find the owner of that address? Maybe offer a reward or something like that? It is a huge chunk of money so they might be willing to come forward.

Out of curiosity has anyone ever had a successful recovery of a mislaid transaction where the owner just transferred it back or a partial amount back?

Did you not copy the address?

Wow, so sorry to hear about this happening to you.

I might be doing this wrong as I'm not as familiar with Eth as BTC, but I'm showing that the wallet had no transactions prior to this one.

https://etherscan.io/balancecheck-tool?a=0x3f13171bedaf7a2b6e69fc12e08ff0429d8b059b

So... I am thinking that while it must be a valid address (either that or Eth does not check/care), that the wallet has never actually been used.  I don't know if that helps or makes it worse in terms of recovery.  Again, very sorry and I hope you are able to recover your funds.

Each ethereum address can have two different formats: lowercase OR partially uppercase. Partially uppercase format is checksummed meaning that if you mistype something, transaction won't go through. Lowercase format is not checksummed. For this reason, you should try to use partially uppercase format whenever possible. You can read more about it here: http://myetherwallet.groovehq.com/knowledge_base/topics/not-checksummed-shows-when-i-enter-an-address or here: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/55

EDIT: also, that exchange you're talking about should probably know better than to use non-checksummed deposit addresses.

I am so sorry for your losses :-(

This will not help you but...
When I'm need to send some big amount i'm just send some small amount. After everything is correct I will send full sum.

Wish you have a power to live through this event. Life is going!

Nothing can be done.
You made more than 1 typo here:

0x3F13171BEdAf7a2b6e69fC12e08ff0429D8b058b
0x3F13171BedAf7a2B6E69Fc12e08fF0429d8b059b
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                                               ?
I understand typos after number, but you had two ff and you typed  f F?

To many typo if you ask me. Are you trolling us here?

I don't know what to say. I'm very sorry for your loss. I hope you make much more money to compensate with another coin or trade.

I'm sorry but I have to laugh!  ;D ;D. In my opinion, you should ALWAYS copy and paste the address and certainly, you screwed up. Your mistake turned out to be a very expensive one!

Won't get your money back, but know that many - even extremely experienced - users have had this bad luck. It's called an expensive lesson... Good luck man.

I've read about a couple of situations where a person vastly overpaid miner/transaction fees (i.e., reversed the miner fee and the transaction amount, or something similar) and the miner gave the funds back.  But that is of course a different situation.  There, the payment went to a wallet that was known to be under someone's control ... here, it looks like the payment went to a "dead" wallet.

How can you be so stupid that you write the address "by hand"?

I would never type any address by hand I always copy/paste and this is the very reason why I will never ever try to type it manually.
Sorry for your lost.

The thing here with cryptocurrency sending is that once it is already done, you cannot take it back. Unlike when doing transactions with your bank account, there are still mechanisms that will give you the chance to have your money back. In crypto, once the address is valid and it is wrong with just a single character, that means that is already good. So next time, you should try to triple check your address.

I'm sorry for your loss, next time if you're sending big amounts of money to any address please just send a little bit first and make sure they arrive right. It can waste a bit of gas but will always protect you.

OMG that was a huge money sent to valid etherium address this is very frustrating men its almost $4,400 as of this time I dont understand why you have to manually type the eth address you must have copy paste it and unfortunately there is 0% chance that you can recovered it seems there is no other any transactions from the wallet other than you sent.   

if this things happen to me i don't know what I'm going to do next since i"m from a third world country and that amount is really a huge value for me,
I'm not sure just like what other's said why did OP manually type his address and why he send it that big right away instead of making sure that it
will proceed but mistakes is a mistakes just hope and pray that the said address have a good heart and also a member of this forum maybe he will
send it back.

You can't do anything and that will be so difficult to find teh address owners, Just forget your loss and try to recover its with the new amount. Because we are in the crypto and if you are loosing something and that gives a possibility to lose anything.

In this cryptocurrency world. One mistake could give you fatal result. I'm pretty sure that you're not checking your address before clicking the send button more than twice right? even I always checking it until more than ten times.
and also, if your phone capable of scanning qrcode, use it, any blockchain explorer always provide the image of the qrcode.

I would only feel comfortable manually typing private keys (e.g. to import paper wallets), because if you screw up, there is no loss. You should always copy and paste addresses. I would have thought Ethereum addresses included a checksum, like Bitcoin, to prevent this sort of thing.


It's very unlikely to happen with Bitcoin. That's why Satoshi designed Bitcoin addresses to include a checksum for testing validity. So if you accidentally delete the last couple digits, for instance, your wallet won't send.

And if adress is still not owned by another? Maybe OP just could overtake the adress and how?

Sorry to tell you that you lost it already dude. Damn that guy is so lucky to get that huge amount of ETH from you. If I made that mistake as well, I think I'm gonna die as well. LOL. If the wallet hasn't been used already then maybe you have a chance to recover it back. But if someone has already been using it, its his gain. Its only showing 1 transaction only so likely it has never been used from the looks of it. But I don't know how can you get it back though.

I lost 1 Bitcoin Cash by sending it to a Bitcoin address. I thought it was my Bitcoin Cash address, but it was different of the Bitcoin address but was a valid address, as Bitcoin Cash is a copy of Bitcoin. It was just after Bitcoin Cash appeared on the Exchange. So yes, everyone can do a mistake. It is better to copy and paste the address if you can. But sometimes we can't copy and paste if the wallet is not on the same computer. So, you need to triple check(or more times) what you type before sending it. And verify that this address is a valid one. If you are tired, you can make a mistake. So it is better to not be tired before doing this kind of operation.
I am sorry for your loss.

You can't generate the same address, as you need to know the private key... It would be too easy to hack every wallet if you could choose the address...