I'm confused about where they get those thousands of addresses for dust attacks.
Technically, I don't know how this works further with them but I think this wasting of time since we know most people will always double-check transactions before sending or transferring to another address.
There are ways they can do that.
Most people will
most of the time double check just the first and last few words, there can still be loopholes which scammers can exploit. Scammers are after the few times where we forget to double check or after those users that do not check at all.
I believe what @albert0bsd means by "block" is to either "freeze" or "hide" these outputs either manually or automatically so that you don't see them when spending from your wallet to avoid such mistakes. For example Electrum has manual output/coin freezing option.
AFAIK some wallets allow one to do this manually after they have already received the dust transaction or any type of transaction that they will not want to be mixed with their other outputs, but I do not know of any automatic way to do this, where an incoming transaction gets automatically frozen based on some preset rules, like:
- less than a certain amount of sats or,
- from a certain address.
This will be a useful but I do not know if it is available now.
- Jay -
