This is why scammers keep increasing in numbers

[Uhwuchukwu53]

Well all one need is been careful because information of things kind need been given attention all the time, but what is really given me much concerned how this copied wallet automatically change because during the test run where smaller amount has been sent the copied wallet would have still remain except the person recopy after the initial copy. Though as regards to this one need really need double check once a wallet is paste for sending huge amount of money of this kind, scammers are of new tactics all the time, their smart nature one working in such environment really need all information pertaining them to a smart them or escape from being their victims.

[macson]

It's simply unbelievable to me that someone would fall for such an old-school method again, and the losses are so significant. Every time I want to make a transaction, even a small one, I always double-check to make sure the address is the correct one, because even a small mistake can have fatal consequences and be irreversible. Especially with this transaction being so large, I just find it a bit ridiculous that he didn't double-check the address and simply copied and pasted it without thoroughly checking it first.

This is why it's important to thoroughly check the destination address, not just the beginning or end, but the entire address. The device we're using could be infected with malware, and checking the destination address multiple times before sending can save us from incidents like this.

[DYING_S0UL]

$50M?
Man, that's that's just unbearable. That is probably a person's entire life savings! I ask is there any way this can be reversed or at least lets say can those stolen funds be frozen somehow?

This is truly the worst of the worst. I once got infected with a similar scamming method (clipboard malware), so I know a bit of how cunning this address poisoning attack can be. That scammers address had hundreds, forget hundreds, thousands of transactions involving thousands of dollars, and this was not the only address. This is exactly why I always double chcek (manually) my address many times before sending any funds, even if it's $50. One hand on my mobile and another on my pc, comparing with the original and the one I'm about to send. It's always better to be late than sorry later.

[sokani]

I still believe that laptops, PC and android phones are a bad way of storing cryptocurrency, most of the time when these devices are infected you won't know, I believe this is what happened to this victim, he should have gotten a hardware wallet rather, to send coins you don't even need to copy paste.

Storing the coin on a hot wallet is not what led to the theft. I would say he lost it due to ignorance.

The victim probably had a particular address he frequently sends coins to. The scammer knew this and created a fake address that looked similarly like the victim's address and sent dust to it, hoping that he would mistakenly transfer funds to the fake address when he wanted to make transactions, and that's exactly what happened. The victim made the mistake of sending funds to the fake address when he copied it from the transaction history.

To avoid this kind of scam, do not copy the address you want to send funds to from your transaction history. Copy it directly from your wallet or exchange, and triple-check before sending the funds.

[EL MOHA]

that 50 million loss is absolutely insane, it basically proves that even a test transaction is not enough if you are not checking every single character, to be honest if i ever had that much money i would probably be too scared to even move it out of a ledger, address poisoning is becoming the ultimate nightmare for whales

I think if I had such amount of bitcoin I would not be comfortable to Leave it on a wallet created by ledger due to their reputation, I will definitely be looking for an open source airgapped hardware wallet. Ledger isn’t a hardware wallet to consider but that’s for another thread.

This is purely a thing of either Ignorance and nothing more. Address poisoning is long time scammers tactics which is still working perfectly now, there are many etiquettes to avoid falling victims with the non official one bee. That one should never send such a large amount out at once but should prioritize splitting it into smaller portions.

[uchegod-21]

A Golden hit ( Stolen ) like this will keep motivating these scammers, this is someone's life time savings been robbed in a matter of minutes. I feel sorry for this person, even though I have lost thousands this year but it's never this way, not to scammers but altcoins investments.



https://x.com/i/status/2002075668570309054

This fella was tricked, he sent all this heavy amount into a fake address that looks almost the same with the original, this is why we need to becareful when we are copying address especially people using laptops to make transactions, the last time I witnessed this similar loss happened to a laptop user.

I still believe that laptops, PC and android phones are a bad way of storing cryptocurrency, most of the time when these devices are infected you won't know, I believe this is what happened to this victim, he should have gotten a hardware wallet rather, to send coins you don't even need to copy paste.

You can't just rebuke losses like this, you need to take actions to avoid them.

Call me childish or petty, but if I am going to send this amount of bitcoins, I am going to verify the wallet address over and over again, taking note of every character. This is life savings we are talking about, the pain from losing this much can be unbearable. This can happen to anyone whether he is using a laptop, a mobile phone or whatever.  It is everyone's responsibility to ensure that their assets are safe. Scammers can attack at anytime, that is the more reason why investors, hodlers etc should be vigilant like scammers are everywhere waiting to attack.

[Ever-young]

I can never forget the experience which I witnessed with my own eye that lead me to learning about clipboard virus which was how the receiving address was changed to that of the scammer ever since they I try as much as possible to manually check every wallet I want to transact with and make sure its same sometimes I prefer to use QR code to scan my wallet if I don’t consider copying and pasting it as being safe, a lot of things are happening on the internet and the scammers are not sleeping at all they are very much active to steal from us all they wait for us that one mistake.

[qwertyup23]

I just cannot imagine what is going through the person's head right now. I mean, $50 million is a whole lot of money that is definitely life changing for 99% of the population in the world. With just a simple trick yet effective, scammers were able to introduce yet again another type of scam that is so simple yet effective and destructive.

It's so easy to feel complacent especially in mundane tasks, such as copy-pasting our wallet address and putting the amount to be sent. The problem is, this became the perfect avenue for scammers to take advantage of this task which most likely destroyed this person.

Again, I cannot stress enough the need to double-check everything before we send money to a designated wallet. Even if the amount that we will send is relatively low, please double check everything in order to make sure that everything is in order.

[tabas]

While he did the first test of transferring first, I'd make sure another test transaction that could give me more securing thoughts that I can peacefully send that $50M. Even a couple of thousands, I'll test and make sure it first before sending. We can learn here that despite that we're aware of that technique, still the scammers have their eyes on those wallet addresses that have huge amounts. It is probably a money that he's set for life but I feel bad that these scammers are just there waiting for that opportunity. They can attain to feed their fam with stolen money.

[Lucius]

I can't believe someone with $50 millions would copy an address from the blockchain explorer when he can double check in the clipboard or save the address first in the wallet addresses list.
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I can believe it because I've seen similar nonsense too many times to believe it's just a coincidence. I will repeat again that being rich does not necessarily mean being intelligent, because intelligent people cannot fall for such cheap tricks.

I just cannot imagine what is going through the person's head right now. I mean, $50 million is a whole lot of money that is definitely life changing for 99% of the population in the world.
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Someone who treats $50 million so recklessly might have that much more - and if not, I hope they immediately took every possible action to try to get that money back. If he doesn't succeed in that, he'll have a good story that he can always pull out when someone starts talking about lost money: "I lost $50 million on crypto once."

[AYOBA]

This is why it's important to thoroughly check the destination address, not just the beginning or end, but the entire address. The device we're using could be infected with malware, and checking the destination address multiple times before sending can save us from incidents like this.

The way the numbers of scammers are increasing every blessing day it’s very important for us to be wise  enough on what ever we come to do concern address. Because our address os combine with laters and words so we cannot cram it since it’s a long numbers and letters accept copy and paste, but the reason why it’s very important to check again when ever we past the destination address as you said earlier is because of the scammers that are doing research on how they can able to hack people wallet.

What I always I do whenever I come to send my address: I do check it multiples time by follow all the letters and words one after the other for me to make sure everything are in order.

[mikel_012]

I can't believe someone with $50 millions would copy an address from the blockchain explorer when he can double check in the clipboard or save the address first in the wallet addresses list.
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I can believe it because I've seen similar nonsense too many times to believe it's just a coincidence. I will repeat again that being rich does not necessarily mean being intelligent, because intelligent people cannot fall for such cheap tricks.

Yes, this is very true

And with just one sucessfull time where the scammer gets $50 millions he can pay for 1 million more attempts because the fees are cheap to do this type of attack, and just 1 jackpot can make the scammer very happy and his attempts a success.

I can only hope the scammed user had a lot more money and was a super whale and not that this was all his life savings.

[YellowSwap]

I can't believe someone with $50 millions would copy an address from the blockchain explorer when he can double check in the clipboard or save the address first in the wallet addresses list.

I can always see transactions like this in my address but I just ignore them, many explorers also hide the transactions that are suspicious to avoid this, but I know many wallets don't so you can see the last transaction in the wallet is always a bad address poisoning attack.

Remember to never copy any address from the explorer, copy from the original place and double check not only the beginning and ending but also some letters and numbers in the middle for more guarantees.

That's not all, you can copy the address from your history in your crypto wallet and still get switched because your PC might be infected with the malware that's capable of switching address after you copy and address, it's better for PC users to take a minute and cross check the address over again before sending assets to the address.

[Felicity_Tide]

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You can't just rebuke losses like this, you need to take actions to avoid them.

Despite the fact that this type of scam sounds a bit simple to the ears, the number of people who still fall for it is unbelievable. Let's not forget that there are several of these type of attack that doesn't even get to the media or internet because a lot of victims might be too scared or emotional to share them. People just make silly mistakes for silly reasons and it's never going to stop. For some reasons, I believe a lot of people who are involved in crypto related matters, don't know how ugly things can get when they make themselves vulnerable. I guess a lot of them are forgetting that this is far beyond the physical banking where you can initiate recovery process, and get your funds back with time. In this space, getting your money back is certainly not what anyone can guarantee you, besides, a scammer who steals $50M won't be that stupid to put him/herself at risk. I just hope everyone don't have to learn the hard way.

[GoldBitcoin112]

A Golden hit ( Stolen ) like this will keep motivating these scammers, this is someone's life time savings been robbed in a matter of minutes. I feel sorry for this person, even though I have lost thousands this year but it's never this way, not to scammers but altcoins investments.

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https://x.com/i/status/2002075668570309054

This fella was tricked, he sent all this heavy amount into a fake address that looks almost the same with the original, this is why we need to becareful when we are copying address especially people using laptops to make transactions, the last time I witnessed this similar loss happened to a laptop user.

I still believe that laptops, PC and android phones are a bad way of storing cryptocurrency, most of the time when these devices are infected you won't know, I believe this is what happened to this victim, he should have gotten a hardware wallet rather, to send coins you don't even need to copy paste.

You can't just rebuke losses like this, you need to take actions to avoid them.

Waw this is unbelievable but to me how do this mistake occured because their are many ways one can easily copy address without copying another or the person who copied it was drunk anyway,as you said we need to be very careful so that this same thing can't happen to anyone here to avoid regrets in future.

[tech30338]

but more than often this kind of scam are being targeted on big investors.

That's somewhat true, but it's not really about the amount. Rather, this attack targets wallets with activity patterns that are more likely to be stolen, such as many input addresses and only a few output addresses.
If you have a wider variety of output addresses, attackers will think you don't regularly copy destination addresses from your tx history.

That's not only for wallet with big amounts this attacks are for all, they just send a small amount or any token, waiting for you to make a mistake of copying an identical address which is not the real one because they generate a wallet that is almost the same, and only a letter or few one is change which is sometimes not seen if not carefully check, and people who copy address in transaction history to send funds knowing that's the real address, but in reality its the fake one, and the moment they realize it its too late.
so never copy an address via transactions, make sure you talk to the reciever and double check everything.

[Baki202]

It's simply unbelievable to me that someone would fall for such an old-school method again, and the losses are so significant. Every time I want to make a transaction, even a small one, I always double-check to make sure the address is the correct one, because even a small mistake can have fatal consequences and be irreversible. Especially with this transaction being so large, I just find it a bit ridiculous that he didn't double-check the address and simply copied and pasted it without thoroughly checking it first.

I don't think the scammers are the problem here where the problem is coming from is from those that have invested already because majority of them are too greedy and also they are looking for quick money  and for those that have this kind of ideology they will keep falling victim in the hands of this scammers because I don't see a reasonable person that have the right knowledge about cryptocurrency should have anything to do with quick money it takes a lot of time for you to be able to make money from cryptocurrency so what is not the rush. A lot of things can contribute to anyone losing their assets aside the issue of scams they are other hidden factors that have made people lose what they have worked for in a very long time.

This is why it's important to thoroughly check the destination address, not just the beginning or end, but the entire address. The device we're using could be infected with malware, and checking the destination address multiple times before sending can save us from incidents like this.

Any address you are sending to it is always better to do copy and paste because address is not even something you can actually write out so the best thing is just to copy and you paste then you do confirmation of what chain you are sending to before you start sending. And all this is because everyone needs to pay attention to everything. There is no rush in this business you need to take your time to. Invest and it is also another thing to secure.

[Hazink]

$50M?
Man, that's that's just unbearable. That is probably a person's entire life savings! I ask is there any way this can be reversed or at least lets say can those stolen funds be frozen somehow?

If the stolen fund is being converted to USDT, and somehow it's traced down to the wallet which holds it, with the right authorities take action, they can freeze the money in the wallet and there might be hope of recovery.

Sometimes too, through the help of exchanges, they can help them recover. Some of those, if anyone lands in their exchange, the money is too big for it to just disappear. Some might end up being recovered. That's if the victim knows the best way to follow.

[Agathamay]

Yes, this is very true

And with just one sucessfull time where the scammer gets $50 millions he can pay for 1 million more attempts because the fees are cheap to do this type of attack, and just 1 jackpot can make the scammer very happy and his attempts a success.

I can only hope the scammed user had a lot more money and was a super whale and not that this was all his life savings.

People have belive scamming to be the way. Common, scamming doesn't seem to surprise anyone anymore because there have been up and down in life, some keep moving while others retrace their steps and focus on making changes that will benefit them. We're different and everyone of us have a goal and achieving them demand us to become extremely hardworking and making sacrifices to reach the top.

[KingsDen]

I feel sorry for the loser. But I feel that the loser has alot of money to lose such a huge amount for address poisoning.
Testing with $50 is not enough. He would have done more...
I will not only double check, I will triple check each number from the beginning till the end and not checking only the few starting and ending digits.

If I may ask, what happened to scanning code, could that one also be poisoned?