{"id":18745,"date":"2024-11-20T10:32:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T08:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/user-recovers-129-million-sent-to-phishing-address\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T10:32:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T08:32:52","slug":"user-recovers-129-million-sent-to-phishing-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/user-recovers-129-million-sent-to-phishing-address\/","title":{"rendered":"User Recovers $129 Million Sent to Phishing Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unnamed user transferred $129 million in USDT to scammers after copying an incorrect address from their transaction history. Unlike most such incidents, the recipients returned the funds within six hours.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"zh\" dir=\"ltr\">?\u4e0d\u77e5\u9053\u54ea\u4f4d\u906d\u9047\u4e86\u9996\u5c3e\u53f7\u76f8\u4f3c\u94b1\u5305\u5730\u5740\u7684\u9493\u9c7c\u653b\u51fb\uff0c\u8bef\u8f6c\u4e86 1.29 \u4ebf USDT \u7ed9\u9493\u9c7c\u5730\u5740\uff1a<\/p>\n<p>THcTxQi3N8wQ13fwntF7a3M88BEi6q1bu8<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vhPxMpewc8\">https:\/\/t.co\/vhPxMpewc8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u4e0d\u8fc7\uff0c\u9493\u9c7c\u56e2\u4f19\u4e0d\u5230 1 \u5c0f\u65f6\u5f52\u8fd8\u4e86\u5176\u4e2d 90%\uff0c\u7136\u540e\u53c8\u8fc7\u4e86 4 \u4e2a\u591a\u5c0f\u65f6\u628a\u5269\u4f59\u7684 10% \u4e5f\u5f52\u8fd8\u4e86\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u60c5\u62a5\u6765\u81ea InMist \u6210\u5458\u3002 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cFhK3sM8Go\">https:\/\/t.co\/cFhK3sM8Go<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cos(\u4f59\u5f26)?\u200d?\ufe0f (@evilcos) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/evilcos\/status\/1859095381998809422?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to analysts at <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SlowMist_Team\/status\/1859042394328461739\">Scam Sniffer<\/a>, citing SlowMist data, the victim&#8217;s transaction history included a suspicious address with similar ending characters to a familiar wallet. The user failed to verify and sent funds to the imposter wallet.<\/p>\n<p>This method is known as <span data-descr=\"\u00abaddress poisoning\u00bb\" class=\"old_tooltip\">\u201caddress poisoning\u201d<\/span>. Scammers create an address resembling one familiar to the potential victim and send a minor transaction, which appears in the user&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>The perpetrators hope the victim will not verify the full identifier and will copy the fake address when making a transaction.<\/p>\n<p>In May, a similar attack led to an unnamed trader <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/trader-loses-68-million-in-address-poisoning-scam\">losing<\/a> $68 million. In July, the hacker group Pink Drainer <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/pink-drainer-hackers-fall-victim-to-address-poisoning-scam\">fell victim<\/a> to address poisoning, losing 10 ETH.<\/p>\n<p>Surprised by the swift return of funds, some X users <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cyb3rs3cd4wg\/status\/1859094987994210495\">speculated<\/a> that the scammers were intimidated by the large sum. Someone transferring $129 million could potentially hire analysts and hackers to track down the culprits, posing a threat.<\/p>\n<p>Others <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/0x_Aperture\/status\/1859103132820578647\">suggested<\/a> that a decent person, rather than a scammer, was on the other end of the transaction and voluntarily returned the funds.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on November 10, a trader who lost about $26 million due to a copying error asked the community for help in recovering the funds, offering a 10% reward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unnamed user transferred $129 million in USDT to scammers after copying an incorrect address from their transaction history. Unlike most such incidents, the recipients returned the funds within six hours. ?\u4e0d\u77e5\u9053\u54ea\u4f4d\u906d\u9047\u4e86\u9996\u5c3e\u53f7\u76f8\u4f3c\u94b1\u5305\u5730\u5740\u7684\u9493\u9c7c\u653b\u51fb\uff0c\u8bef\u8f6c\u4e86 1.29 \u4ebf USDT \u7ed9\u9493\u9c7c\u5730\u5740\uff1a THcTxQi3N8wQ13fwntF7a3M88BEi6q1bu8https:\/\/t.co\/vhPxMpewc8 \u4e0d\u8fc7\uff0c\u9493\u9c7c\u56e2\u4f19\u4e0d\u5230 1 \u5c0f\u65f6\u5f52\u8fd8\u4e86\u5176\u4e2d 90%\uff0c\u7136\u540e\u53c8\u8fc7\u4e86 4 \u4e2a\u591a\u5c0f\u65f6\u628a\u5269\u4f59\u7684 10% \u4e5f\u5f52\u8fd8\u4e86\u2026 \u60c5\u62a5\u6765\u81ea InMist \u6210\u5458\u3002 https:\/\/t.co\/cFhK3sM8Go \u2014 Cos(\u4f59\u5f26)?\u200d?\ufe0f (@evilcos) November 20, 2024 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-18745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybercrime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}