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I'm curious but has anyone here accidentally received btc or bch or any other coin from another address that you know was by accident?  Thus it was not direct and wasn't an airdrop or anything like that?


I had received a tiny bit of bitcoin cash to my nano ledger s... but it was tiny amount not even a penny worth... and someone who is very knowledgeable said it was a dusting attack which is almost harmless.


But is it almost impossible to send btc to the wrong address assuming you are off one letter or a bit off?  Or is odds going to show that address is incorrect?  Thus imagine the last letter or number you mean was f and typed e or it was 9 and typed e or 8... are the odds so low that... the address you wrote a letter off is incorrect?  Also all btc and those addresses are the exact number of characters right?


Now i heard a while back, if you send btc to a bch address or send bch to btc address, the coins are permanently lost.  Is that still true today?  I remember i heard back then in bittrex, if you do that, they could help you recover it but only if the amount you said was big like at least 5k usd.  Do they still assist now?


But if you were to send btc to bch address or vice versa... or to even bitcoin sv or bitcoin gold, what happens now?

With sending, I could imagine many ppl make mistake right?  Example you mean to copy/paste a btc address to someone new or someone, but accidentally pasted someone else's address and pasted it and sent them the btc.  I assume that happens a ton with ppl by mistake right?  Whether its btc ot bch or any other coin?  But in those instances, I assume assuming you don't know that person personally... then you can't ask them... hey i accidentally sent you btc or bch or some other coin, can you send it back?


I assume the receiver could basically look at their wallet history and sort of determine who send them the accidental btc or bch or whatever coin it is?  But if its a big site such as exchange or processor who deals with tens of thousands of customers or more... then are you screwed?

If you send bitcoin to another address you are screwed.

But if you are sending FROM another address, that is because you are using a wallet which doesn't support coin control.

I recommend that you try to use electrum. Electrum allows you to choose which input / address to spend from.

Download only from electrum.org

I haven't used to it. Sending/receiving Bitcoin to a wrong account hasn't happened. If there exists an address upon our mistyping of the address, it might reach the particular location. The chance for the existence of the mistyped address is very low.

It never happened to me, and it's generally pretty rare, but if you're talking about really small amounts, it could be a dust attack (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5175238.0l). Maybe someone is trying to track you, or maybe this was just an advertisement spam, which is more likely - its purpose is to make you research the originating address, which probably belongs to some service. Or maybe it's just bcash people being desperate, and they try to promote their coin by giving away some tiny amounts.

The chance of sending BTC to BCH or BSV is very low. How could this happen? the addresses for those cryptos are entirely different in format so, someone who's sending it might have no experience and not aware of the addressing of different cryptocurrencies. And the chance of a replaced or wrong one letter or number at the end of the address, this is only possible if you will type the address manually. But does a lot of people still do this? it's simple and easy to copy paste the addresses if you are about to send.

Care to share that BCH address though? It seems this is another form of advertisement from them or some company that utilise BCH. Like this one (BSV): Spamming 547 satoshis. But why? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5275441.0). And maybe if you try to investigate the originator of that address, you are already fallen for their promotional trick.

I have never experienced this both incidents...
Sending Bitcoin to the wrong address such as sending to another Bitcoin address, BCH address or BSV address is one of the biggest bad luck. fortunately, I never had that bad moment. I always check my destination wallet address first to make sure I have nothing to miss.

I do not think just random addresses are taken and placed into dust attacks. It may be an attempt to trace you, so I wouldn't take it as an "almost harmless" attack - but not something you should be necessarily panicked about either. I do have some addresses that have been dust-attacked before, but fortunately nothing's happened so far.

If you send it to someone else's wallet, it's your fault and you are likely screwed unless the receiver decides he does not want to hold your coins and gives them back to the address they came from. The copy-paste thing mostly happens either due to clipboard viruses or simply due to the tx maker not paying attention. Always triple-check addresses before you push the Send button. Bitcoin's decentralized and its txs are irreversible and non-refundable, so you're on your own..!

I once experience sending bitcoin to a wrong address but it was because of a malware. The malware where whenever you type in an address to send bitcoin in the owner of the malware wallets appear and without you checking and being confident that you copied the right address you will send it right away. Happened to me one time and lost 0.03 bitcoin which back then is big because that's when bitcoin reach its new ATH.

About sending BCH to a bitcoin wallet here is your guide to recover it (https://support.bitcoin.com/en/articles/3680104-i-accidentally-sent-bch-to-my-btc-wallet) so basically you can recover BCH not sure about other bitcoin forks if this will work too.

I've been experienced this before that I received dust amount of BTC but I don't think if it was from faucet or someone trying to trace me but I only received dust amount on addresses which is already posted here on the forum. It might be a giveaway or someone donates you.

I also have experienced that I was accidentaly sent bitcoin to someone here on the forum with big amount of BTC but the owner of the address is also member here on the forum and tried to contact him and ask to sent the 90% of BTC and got my BTC back.

I never heard about bitrex if they can recover the amount that you accidentally sent but I think it's impossible right now except for unconfirmed transaction where you can perform a double spend.

About the last question I think BTC address and BitcoinSV address is the same so  if you sent BTC to BitcoinSV address you can only receive BTC but you won't be able to receive BitcoinSV.(You can only have BitcoinSV if you hold BTC during BlockHalving)

No matter how careful you are , there's always a sloppy moments like this.
Here's my experience https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1531012.msg15409543#msg15409543 ...

0.13 btc that time was not as worth as today , it was worth only like $50 to $100 i guess. I earned more than 2 btc a month that time through trading, mining and high paying sig camp fj who pay you up to 0.2 btc a month damn sweet memories.
So yeah that's the nature of cryptocurrency that irreversible. Use with caution.

I did receive one huge amount of BTC on a gambling site once, and by large, it was several thousand dollars way more (in today's value) than I deposited.

Apparently it was an error from the site itself because a guy deposited that amount but somehow it got transferred to me.

it is not possible to randomly send coin to an unknown valid address. you should have already had that address copied or stored in your wallet to send to, so you should have already known that address. unlike bank accounts, email addresses,... bitcoin addresses have a 32-bit checksum and changing a character is not going to give you a valid address because the chances of finding a collision is very small.

maybe that was the time of fork where they gave away bch for the user that has some balance left thier wallets . i got bch too but same small amount because i dont store big btc balances on my purse . recieving btc to random wallet is i never experience but i did sent coin to a wrong address .  the odds are still low because the address are too long and we dont need to manually typed them but we copy and paste them .  i am still dreaming that someday i can get a 1 btc or higher amount from a stranger :)

I have collected over 1 btc from a dust attack in 2015 on a blockchain wallet that I no longer have access to, and I have received some couple of dollars here and there on my electrum wallet though I always return those back to the sender since I always think that these are from newbies that must have copied my address somewhere. Frankly I could have just kept those small amounts for myself but I am quite the paranoid person thinking that these transactions may be used against me when the time comes.


Bitcoin addresses can be 26 - 35 characters in length, depending on the format that your address is in. For more information, read: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Address


I don't remember bittrex doing that kind of support stuff back then. Perhaps if the transaction is unconfirmed, but if not, most exchanges would just tell you that you did something wrong and that's not their problem anymore.


Circumstances remain the same. If you sent bitcoin to a BCH address, coins are lost forever.

I wouldn't exactly say the actual transmission was an accident.

However, I have had a few clients in the past add an extra 0, or another digit substantially changing the amount - to which I promptly returned the overbalanced amount.

Once was actually a Digital Goods purchase on this forum.

Yes. I have accidentally received a BTC from another address that it only has an amount of 0.01 BTC. I didn't know how it is possible because there is only a low percentage for us to have a similar BTC address, and for someone to make a mistake because we mostly copy and paste every address to complete a transaction. So I assume one of my friends secretly send me some BTC as a gift.

It has happen to me once. I don't remember the exact date but bitcoin was $230 for a unit. I was sending coins to my clients through a service that I was using and I was doing some transactions that day. I prefer doing Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V but was so careless that didn't realize the 2nd address was not copied and I ended up sending it to another client. The amount was just $10 but that would be 0.043 bitcoins at that time.
After the incident, I started checking my address twice and verifying both the starting and ending characters of address. And can tell that I have always sent coins to the address I wanted thereafter. I was hacked and scammed other ways but never by a address changing malware.

I don't really think that it is possible to mistakenly send out in crypto currency unless there would be an error or your computer could be in a virus or whatever that could put up a wrong address.
How could you accidentally send a crypto when you are only going to copy and paste the address?

It happened to me once when I accidentally inputted a wrong address and I didn't even notice that I made that huge mistake.

That's why we need to become more careful with sending btc in a certain address because losing btc in that kind of mistake is really bad. It is your own fault if it happened to you because btc is an asset that is not that easy to earn and it is the best cryptocurrency compared to other altcoins.

So be mindful with that mistake, accidents occur in an unexpected situation. Always double check.

I have received some BTC dust spam back in 2018 when the network was under attack by BCH supporters. I wouldn't say this was by accident though. They were spamming random addresses this way. I've also seen people receive dust that was supposed to work as advertising. The transaction contained a message with the name of the site it was supposed to promote.
I haven't got a large sum but I'm not sure what I'd do if one day I found a lot of BTC on one of my old addresses. The right thing would be to send it back, but it would be very tempting to keep it.  

Honestly, if I said I hadn't imagined someone mistakenly sending Bitcoin to me I would be lying. I have been in this game for over three years now and I think it's a slim chance of that happening to me or anyone else, even with wallet addresses that have been used and reused. BTW, I think the dust attack can only be possible for wallets that have been used, and not for a fresh wallet whose address hasn't been exposed before. The wallet owner may have submitted or exposed a wallet address somewhere because the several letters and numbers that make up an address can't be got from mere guess work. Anyone can point me in the right if I am wrong on this.


So true. This makes me think that these stories of people mistakenly receiving Bitcoin could be fabricated.

I have never experienced sending Bitcoin to the wrong address, because before sending I always double check the recipient's address.
Likewise I have never received Bitcoin from other people too. Therefore, make sure you are more careful when writing down the recipient's
Bitcoin address. So there will be no sending / receiving of Bitcoin to the wrong address. Then it's about sending Bitcoin to the BCH address
by accident. To my knowledge it will be lost permanently, if it is true Bittrex can recover the lost Bitcoin. This is very good news.

The answer to your question is very simple. If you send a BTC to a non BTC address, then your BTC will be lost forever and vice versa, that's why you have to be careful since not all of the wallets will pop up a notification that you've inputed a wrong address or whatsoever. To make it simple, sending a BTC to a non BTC address is like cross breeding a cat and a dog, which is impossible to happen.

Sending Bitcoin must require you to know on what address you are sending that Bitcoin because you cannot place a random public wallet and just expect it to have the compatibility to accept btc's. Receiving anonymously sounds sketchier since there is absolutely no way other people can know you public wallet if you have not given it away or posted it publicly.

Accidents like this are unlikely to happen since most of the transactions are manually placed.

Yes it is true. I once foolishly send bch to a bitcoin address on an exchange and I lost the funds :(

From now on I use fail-safes and things to slow me down when I confirm transactions. I now have email and F2A enabled so I have time to reconsider what I am doing. My wallets also ask for confirmation before sending.
Check at least 5x the addresses and amounts. Never send transactions when you are tired or are intoxicated etc

Well no but back in 2012 I did purchase some BTC and lost the wallet keys and address and everything since I did not expect them to be this valuable.

- I do believe what you said is pretty big since now a days companies are working on kind of a undo button where the person can only receive the transaction when you do have a passcode or something.

This way it would actually be beneficial when you would be doing bigger transactions and at the same time it would be more secure.

It is yet to be used widely!! But I do believe it would solve the problem of many people here. But once I sent the funds to a exchange wallet and accidentally pressed the received payment but the person was good and gave me the money after a day when he got to know that.

The recovery phase is what I am not really sure of but when you send to decentralized exchange and the amount is huge, they might take extra step to assist but this is not always a guarantee. For receiving a tiny BCH in your ledger might not be coincident if you hold some assets that are doing promo or airdrop without your knowledge.

Since tiny amount of crypto was sent your personal wallet, then it was indeed a dusting attack usually used by hackers to trackdown people or company personal wallet activities and it shouldnt be consider as harmless. I will advise you to me more careful or always you privacy coins or mixer to send transaction to your wallet.

It possible to mistakely send coin to wrong address but not inform of tiny amount.

The transaction will not be send if the address is not up to 26-35 characters long which make a valid address.

I have never received crypto from anyone accidentally and haven't send to other by mistake. If you receive tiny amount from unknown source then you should take it as a dust attack. @hatshepsut93 has mentioned a topic in his reply, you can learn more details about dust attack there.

No one send coin to other by typing their address. It's easier and safest way to do copy paste the address.
If you sent your btc or bch to wrong address or vice versa there is less chance to get it back. You need to go through some process to get it and there are some condition depends on wallet provider.

Okay so you send you btc to bch address by mistake and vice versa.. does it always go through?  Same with bitcoin sv and bitcoin gold addresses?  But if you try to send a completely different coin like monero, waves ore dash or anything else not btc... to one of the btc, bch and vice versa, transactions will automatically get rejected?


People say if you send btc to bch and vice versa, then you can't get the coins back.  If that is the case, wouldn't that mean there are a ton of btc and bch etc lost so to speak because of this?  Similar to like how ppl old hard drives broke with btc etc?

No, I haven't received any amount of btc or bch to my account. Any transaction made with bitcoin or any other coin is irreversible, that's why we have to double check every transactions or else our money will be gone forever unless the person you mistakenly send your money give it back to you.

Without a doubt, I am certain that it is possible to have some loopholes in the transaction. There is a chance of having duplicate bitcoin address or some glitch in the system that's why some amounts are mistakenly send to someone. There's was also an issue before (2015) where blockchain warned the cryptocurrency users regarding a bug in Google's Android software that causes the duplication of address. Any amount sent can be used by the other user with the same address. You may check it here: https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/blockchain-warns-of-duplicate-bitcoin-addresses-on-android/  

But this case does not happen everytime :) Just be careful when transacting, always double check.

Both are different blockchains but most of the time both have similar address format which is legacy so if you accidentally send bch to your BTC address or vice versa and the wallet has same recovery phrase then your balance will show on your wallet, no need to do anything but this is possibly only if you send to your address and have recovery phrase.

I had done it before I was going to send payment to a friend that because of a loan while I am also gambling at that time,
I was busy playing and my friend ask if I could send the payment and because I didn't want to be disturb while I am gambling I said yes and ask for the payment address then I forgot to copy and sent it to the gambling site that I was playing.
The payment just got delayed because of it and I have to pay more for transaction fees but it was a good thing that the address that I sent it to was my gambling site address.

It isn't unimaginable, but also pretty rare. Mostly because people would double or triple check wallet addresses before sending it, and mostly because you don't really type the address yourself, you copy it to your clipboard or just scan a qr code with the said wallet, then that's it. It's pretty stupid for one to actually type out an address characters individually, since an accident is highly likely due to the address being a mix of letters big and small, as well as numbers.

In the end, the only reason for someone to send it wrongly is due to their carelessness. Check twice, thrice, maybe even 4 times, to see if the addresses inputted in are correct, and is indeed the address you want to send you're funds to.

Everything can happen, sending BTC to a wrong wallet address is also possible because there are a lot of people who made mistakes from doing it. I have read an article before that when you copy a wallet address and paste it to the recipient's wallet address it will change and it is all because of the virus on your device, I just forgot the name of the virus but that is true because I'd read it on an article.

To avoid these things, better we double-check the recipient's wallet address before we click the submit or send button, double-checking won't take so much time, it will make you safe and don't lose your money.

I haven't got into such experience of sending a Bitcoin to a wrong address for I always do make sure of my transactions checking it consecutive times before confirming the transactions I have been doing. If ever such a thing would happen that a certain person have accidentally sent you any kind of crypto, then it is basically a human error and it is his own fault for doing such. The transactions are irreversible once you have done confirming it so you better make sure that the wallet address you were trying to send with is fully copied to clipboard and assure that the recipient have checked it a couple of times so that there will be no trouble on the transaction. In any way, once you have mistakenly sent out into a wrong address it is your fault or the recipient's fault for you were the ones having the transaction.

I see a few reports here in the forum in the past where they received an amount in their own address or someone accidentally sent a bitcoin in their address, I remembered someone pm the op that he sent the bitcoin in the op bitcoin address.

Personally, I never ever received a bitcoin that is sent to my address but hopefully, soon I'm going to receive one  ;D I think it is really possible and mostly the mistake is because of a wrong copy-paste of a bitcoin address but the chances are really low.

A lot of wallets warned a user to only send bitcoin to a bitcoin address and BCH to a BCH address because it might be lost permanently, but in my experience, you could do some reports depending on the wallet you are using and might still recover it, there are also some cases where transactions are canceled.

I've never sent Bitcoins to a wrong address since I mostly pay trough a qr code and check shen copying an address. But I have recieved small amounts several times and it was probably that kind of dusting attack or something.
As for sending BTC to a BCH address, I've seen multiple services that do that, I think the same services that do transaction boosting also can recover those funds (I'm not sure how does that work, though).

Never experienced this but I think the only mistake that can be possible here is copying a wrong address cause it's natural to make mistakes like that, copying the wrong address of someone specially if you are sending btc to a lot of people and you are just copy pasting their wallet before sending. This is the reason why I'm always scared sending my btc to a wallet of mine, cause I'm too scared coppy-pasting the wrong one lol. But 1 letter bit off or 1 letter mistake is kind of impossible, I'm not sure but just 1 letter off then there's another person with the wallet like that? I don't think so, there are so many combinations in our wallet address, and kind of impossible to think that there is a wallet address 1 letter of with your wallet address.

If we send BTC to many addresses, sometimes sending it to the wrong address, because we can accidentally copy the wrong address.
I have experienced it several times, therefore if I plan to send BTC to multiple addresses, I don't do it all at once. I do it gradually,
it can prevent mistakes from happening. Receiving BTC from another address or an unknown address has never happened to me.

The chances of randomly typing a valid bitcoin address are almost the same chances of finding a private key of an address that have been used before. It's almost impossible, at least I didn't hear it happened before.
Of course it's possible to generate an address with a valid checksum, but what are the chances that someone else possesses its private key! (Zero).

Dust attacks are more common on the bitcoin network and are done mainly for blockchain analysis purposes.

I am not so lucky to receive bitcoin accidently from any unknown sources. I think its rare that people receives any bitcoin in this way.
Also while sending bitcoin i double check the receiver's address so that the coins go into the right wallet.

Never did it, both sending or receiving the BTC from or to the wrong wallet address. The carefulness is the key when we are sending the BTC or other crypto to the other wallet. Should pay attention more to the wallet address and also Memo or Tag for some coin. Well, it may happen in several cases to send the coin to the wrong address. But, if we check it triple times, we may not need to do that mistake, aside from the hurry condition, I think we must carefully and repeatedly checking the address.

But, if we received BTC or coins from other wallets, who know, it may happen because of the wrong action of the sender by copying and pasting the wrong address or event typing the wrong letters.

Maybe it happens when someone doesn't know the difference between BTC and BCH. or probably they think that the wallet is the same. Or, probably they are in a hurry   ;D ;D

That didn't happen to me either. I hope it doesn't happen by mistake :(

There were times when dust attacks were common in the bitcoin network but i do not see those as analysis because the attack was concentrated during the phase when the big blockers were having their say on the future of bitcoin and they wanted to show that the block size needs to be improved and till now i view those as attacks against bitcoin so that people would side by them and not for analysis.

Coming into this point what OP is asking i never received accidental coins in my wallets nor i have sent coins to address like that especially when the price of bitcoin started to rise, i always recheck before sending the coins but in the beginning i was too casual but i do not remember making a mistake.

Never experience it also, but in my perspective its probably human error probably due to he/she is doing multiple address transaction, and messed up the last characters of the address that's almost identical because most address are 50% unique especially when the address is the same country, they tend to have the same prefix. Probably the person is a project manager of a large scale campaign with payment method of BTC.

I agreed with you here, however there are some instances when a PC or laptop is comprised or probably hacked the owner may mistakenly send the crypto to the hacker address unknowingly, this is what I have personally witnessed whenever I copied the original address of my recipient and paste on blockchain or any wallet terminal the BTC address of the hacker will be pasted instead, if not of my cautiousness and alertness I would have been skrewed and probably send the BTC to the hacker.

I haven't encountered yet receiving any funds from an unknown crypto wallet but if I have, it would be a blessing for me ;D, the person who gets wrong of sending the funds in the wrong crypto waller would be so sad because it is their lost especially if we are talking about the huge amount of money but they can't do anything just to turn back the money that has sent to a wrong crypto wallet. This should be a lesson for them that we really need to double-check the recipient's crypto wallet before we send the funds.

A tense incident happened to me during Bitcoin HardFork. At that time the local exchange that I usually use to convert BTC into local currency here decided to change the bitcoin address of its users (including myself). when I try to deposit as much as 0.5BTC from a private wallet to a local exchange without looking at the address again (because I have stored the bitcoin address I usually use for depositing), after a while I wait for a transaction that doesn't work, then I try to check the exchange wallet address which turned out to be updated. I was afraid of losing it, but after I tried to communicate with the owner (employee to be precise) of the exchange and explained all the chronology of what happened, the exchange happily transferred my BTC from the old address to the new one. In essence nothing will send BTC to our address for free, except only an error or a computer infected with a virus that changes the address randomly (it also happened to my friend)

I am quite a meticulous person in every way, so I've never had an experience sending Bitcoin to the wrong address.
And I also never received Bitcoin from an unknown address too, even though I really hope to receive Bitcoin deposits
from an address that I don't know ;D.

In fact, so that we don't send Bitcoin to the wrong address, we have to check repeatedly before sending Bitcoin,
make sure the Bitcoin address is correct, don't rush to send. Check repeatedly more than one must be done.

Exactly this things will happen by mistake if you copy wrong address which is from different users . But if you are sure that you are always copying the right address then I don't think you will experience that mistake . The only possible mistake you can do is to send different amount from what you plan to send .

yups i received small amount of Bitcoin last year from unknown wallet but i waited for someone to send me PM or any form of claiming so i can resend but no one contacted me ,though until now the amount is under my wallet.


there is nothing that you can benefits if you send Bitcoin to another coins wallet because for sure you will regret that action.
the funds will be gone in the wind and will never be recover again.

I have never had the experience of receiving or sending bitcoins with the wrong address, because I always pay attention or control back numbers or letters when giving my bitcoin wallet address to receive or send bitcoins to other addresses.
because if one of the letters or numbers will be fatal, you must pay attention repeatedly to send or receive a bitcoin address until the address is correct and not wrong and do it casually in no hurry.

I've had the wrong experience of sending BTC when paying for online purchases, but it's not my fault. At that time, the seller gave me the wrong address, and I copied and pasted the address. when I told him that BTC was delivered, he even accused me of sending it to the wrong address. even though she gave me the wrong address. Finally, he admitted his mistake and apologized to me and immediately sent my order

I received some tokens to my Ethereum wallet sometimes (I don't remember the details, but I think there was a thing a few years ago with random distribution of tokens to wallets that can receive them). As for Bitcoin, my sister received a ton of BTC once, and we thought it was an accident and were thinking what to do about it and whether to send it back. We bought a cake and some other stuff, spending about 30 dollars from that money, and then it turned out that the money was sent intentionally by our father  ;D
As for me sending cryptos mistakenly, it never happened. I'm aware of scams that might change the copied address to a different one and similar, so I always double-check the address (not the full address, to be honest, but a few symbols at the beginning and at the end).

Thanks for knowing me. It was not known to me before. I haven't sent or received from anyone yet. In the future, I will do it with this electrom.org. I hope I will not face any problem. Everyone should be careful when sending and receiving. Neither is suffering.

I think that it is not very difficult since the wallet contains many alphanumeric characters and it is very difficult to make mistakes if you write it wrong, maybe it will probably fall to another person but it is very difficult, this is in the case of BTC or BCH in others Cryptocurrencies can be a bit easier because you only need a username and you can make mistakes more easily

Hey, be careful.
Go to Electrum.org



There are many phising websites around, and only electrum.org is the real one.
Be extra careful when downloading anything online related to cryptocurrency. There are many phising sites trying to steal your many with fake software.

Yes exactly if i copy always same address there is nothing happen to like this to send my asset .However if i am not wrong that another occur is to mistake to copy any letter but the transaction will not be complete .So don't need to hurry to make any transaction.

That's sad, being accused of something even if it is not your fault. On the other side, that's good that the seller admitted his mistake. Maybe next time when purchasing something, you should ask twice or more if the btc address they gave is the correct one, just to make sure. Always check the transaction details first before confirming it because the transactions made with cryptocurrencies are irreversible. Once it is done, you cannot take it back.  

I have never received BTC from someone who wrongly sent bitcoins to my bitcoin wallet address, events like this rarely happen because many people send very carefully.
people who accept bitcoin are very lucky because it is very rare for this kind of error to occur.
If someone is hoping to receive bitcoins from the wrong person sending bitcoins to his wallet address, I think he is a very lazy person.

I once sent some mBtc to an address that is void. I copy-pasted the address not knowing that I am missing the last two characters of it. It doesn't matter though but since no one actually owns that address, that mBtc I sent will be delivered into the void which means that would be unusable and won't be retrieved.

Sending bitcoin to a wrong address is not any event, it's a pure mistake. And everyone use to be careful while sending coins to other. But mistake happens, we can't deny it.

Wait ??? what is that! Accept or receive bitcoin from someone who send it by mistake.

Lazy! Why? Can you define it ...

At least make your reply intelligible to all of us. After seeing this reply I have checked your post history. Might be your English skill isn't good enough. Take time to make a good post without these kind of meaningless talk.

This has never happened to me.  No one ever sent me any BTC by mistake.  So I don't know very well about it. But as far as I know, if you send Bitcoin or any other coin to another address by mistake, it will be a loss for you.  You may never get those coins back.  Although no one accidentally sends a coin to anyone.  The chances of making such a mistake are very low.

I think that was a rare experience if that ever happens because the BTC address is a long string combination of letters and numbers that's why it's impossible to send it by a mistake By the way, sending BTC to BCH address and vice versa has been happening around last I heard about it is from a CoinBase user but unfortunately, there is no progress about that incident. To avoid such mistakes it's better to check carefully before sending any cryptocurrencies to any wallet from time to time.

I have experience with this but not particularly in the bitcoin's blockchain. I lost almost 100 USD when I tried to transfer from ERC20 address to BEP20. Though the address was the same, the network is different so I couldn't withdraw my funds and I think it was lost forever. Lesson learned here is that even if we are sure that we copy-pasted the address correctly, always double-check the other options on your screen to make sure that you are transacting on the right network.

I have not experienced such a thing before, I have not mistakenly sent BTC to a wrong address and I have also not received any from someone. Unless you have to type out the whole address one letter after the other or there is some kind of malware on your device, I don’t see why such a thing would be happening when you can just copy the address of the person that’s receiving and paste it on your wallet before sending. I have seen people saying that made such a mistake, and I always wonder what could have led to them making such a mistake when they can just copy-paste and recheck twice or more to know if their address is correct.

And lastly, if you send Bitcoin to another cryptocurrency address you’re going to lose it. I don’t think anyone would do this as well, unless they just want to act dumb.

When I was a newbie in the cryptocurrency world, installed software from unknown sources on my computer. The malware changing the address I copied had infiltrated into my computer. As a result, I sent bitcoin to the wrong address and lost money.

Dusting attack seems like a just a new word in my ears but I think it was just accidental to be put into your wallet though.
I never experienced sending to a wrong address of even in an incomplete address like missing a single digit.
All I know is that when you send to a different coin wallet that isn't part of an exchange, I think the coin is lost.

When I was first getting in to bitcoin I accidentally sent bitcoin to an address that was incorrect.  I was actually purchasing something from a company who accepted bitcoin.  I believe I simply sent it to a non-working address, or non-established address.  I believe this is called losing bitcoin to the "abyss".  At the time it was bout $200 bucks and now that coins would be worth of $1,000.  Valuable lesson learned.

Mistakes may be there and it sometimes happens. But I personally, never did it because it may affect losing the coin. I often read many cases of this, transferring into the wrong address or wrong memo/tag. Most of them will lose money or coins. But in some cases, they can still get it if they face the wrong memo. but of course, the process is so complicated that we may not easily fix that.

Everyone will make a mistake and there is a big possibility that someone will send a btc to wrong address but in your case there is a big possibility
that it was intentional and there is a fishy action behind the scene like a hacking attempt.

Not all the wallet has the support to help you but an exchange can likely to help if in case they have the power to recover the funds that were sent like
btc instead of bch and vice versa.

No I never had accidentally sent or received BTC from another address.
Even if I am doing plenty of transaction at the same time I always double check the address before sending it,
I think it was always been my habit since I was a kid and played PS1 I always double save my games to make sure that I wouldn't repeat the stage or lose the items I gained.

In such type of situation, Electruem can be really helpful.
Coming to the topic, this hasn't happened to me not for a single time also.
I guess people are careful enough to check the BTC address after they copy,paste it.
Yes it sometimes may happen if you are doing plenty of transitions at a particular period of time.
But still this have never happened with me.

I have never received an amount of BCH in my wallet with such a nominal amount.
As for the problem of wrongly sending BTC to another address, I think it is impossible for BTC to be returned to the sender.
All Bitcoin transactions are irreversible, so there is no way to reverse a transaction that has already been sent.

Hello friend, I have not had, let's say, that great luck but I would like it to happen, I know if other cryptocurrencies have been sent to you by exchange for the simple reason that the transfer memo is wrong in a number or letter, greetings