This might be a good time to bring this up; would visual hashing prevent such things occurring in the future. I am sure we (usually) double check the address each time we paste it by checking the last few characters or something, but wouldn't it be nice if us Bitcoiners had integrated ways of posting a visual address? Perhaps the technology isn't ready yet but Bitpay and the client could easily have such a feature.
1MVR5CfwQ8orYZm63J41iDL1rf5rxrfWGW:
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