I’ve noticed people like to try and match the beginning and ending of wallet addresses and pretend they’re connected. I’ve even had people send me transactions from similar wallets with low fees so they never confirm (there’s 1 pending now). I believe they do this in the hopes someone using a block explorer accidentally copies the address from the wrong spot to send them BTC or something. Who knows… Weird that people spend their time doing such things.
This method only can scam people who are very careless and don't check characters in address they are sending bitcoins to. If they spend several seconds, not up to 1 minute, they can check all characters in the address and will not be scammed.
Scammers can do what they want, with simple or complicated scam methods but if people lost money to scammers, carelessness must be a biggest reason for their losses. If they can not change themselves practically to be more careful, they will be scammed again in future.
To naive for those people to fall from these kind of scam attempts since if they fall victim on address baiting them that means they have lack of experience towards how they deal with certain scenarios and they need to improve their selves to avoid being a victim of scam for second time.
Verifying is always important to know the real address to look for and avoid being fooled by this attempt or committing bad mistakes for copying the the fake address. Scammers would do all the methods they know since they are trying to catch the carelessness of people and take advantage with that situation then get something from them.
