How to avoid getting scammed of your bitcoin (for newbies)

[khaled0111]

#1,  Check which address you're sending to:
This should seem obvious but it wasn't completely to me.  I almost got scammed recently because I had downloaded and ran malware that swapped the bitcoin address I was sending to.  The variant I got made the change very visible, but there might be types of this malware that can change it right as you paste it.

I remember when my PC got infected with one of those malwares AKA "CryptoShuffler". Likely, I discovered it before I lose anything. I was trading on DEXs so I was copying the contract address and pasting it in the navigation bar, thus I figured out that there was something wrong.
To mislead the malware and make it unable to detect the wallet address I started copying just the last part of it and complete the rest manually. Finally, I decided to reinstall the OS.

[nngella]

#1,  Check which address you're sending to:

I remember when my PC got infected with one of those malwares AKA "CryptoShuffler". Likely, I discovered it before I lose anything. I was trading on DEXs so I was copying the contract address and pasting it in the navigation bar, thus I figured out that there was something wrong.
To mislead the malware and make it unable to detect the wallet address I started copying just the last part of it and complete the rest manually. Finally, I decided to reinstall the OS.

Why did you download the malware? is it part of another big software and tricked you to download it with the big software?  I am just curious how someone will download something foreign to them and even have the guts of installing it?

[gmdever]

#1,  Check which address you're sending to:

I remember when my PC got infected with one of those malwares AKA "CryptoShuffler". Likely, I discovered it before I lose anything. I was trading on DEXs so I was copying the contract address and pasting it in the navigation bar, thus I figured out that there was something wrong.
To mislead the malware and make it unable to detect the wallet address I started copying just the last part of it and complete the rest manually. Finally, I decided to reinstall the OS.

Why did you download the malware? is it part of another big software and tricked you to download it with the big software?  I am just curious how someone will download something foreign to them and even have the guts of installing it?

It was pure stupidity.  I just wanted whatever it was advertising itself as.

[Esimot]

Well that is some basic advices everybody know about in my opinion

[tbct_mt2]

#1,  Check which address you're sending to:
This should seem obvious but it wasn't completely to me.  I almost got scammed recently because I had downloaded and ran malware that swapped the bitcoin address I was sending to.  The variant I got made the change very visible, but there might be types of this malware that can change it right as you paste it.

For checking receiving address (moving your funds to one address to another or moving your funds to address of others your trade with), please read:

It is impossible for a hacker to generate a private key which only  changes a few digits of your public address.

Even vanity generators are able only to match a few characters together.

So you only need to check some characters, not all of them.

Even if it takes only a minute, it is not necessary imo.

You can check entire address if you have time, but checking few first and last digits likely enough, middle can be ignore.
Or you can check few first, last, and a little in middle of your address.
Of course, nothing bad if you check your receiving address entirely.