{"id":21511,"date":"2025-02-26T10:41:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T08:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/user-loses-over-760000-due-to-address-poisoning\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T10:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T08:41:16","slug":"user-loses-over-760000-due-to-address-poisoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/user-loses-over-760000-due-to-address-poisoning\/","title":{"rendered":"User Loses Over $760,000 Due to Address &#8216;Poisoning&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A user inadvertently sent a large sum to a scammer&#8217;s wallet due to transaction history &#8216;poisoning&#8217;. Analysts at Scam Sniffer highlighted the incident.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">?? A victim lost $763,662 due to transaction history poisoning \u2014 copied an address matching first 4 + last 6 chars of the real address. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i6KUl6la6a\">pic.twitter.com\/i6KUl6la6a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Scam Sniffer | Web3 Anti-Scam (@realScamSniffer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realScamSniffer\/status\/1894590726669045851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on February 20. The victim <a href=\"https:\/\/etherscan.io\/advanced-filter?fadd=0xf6b1539cc562c0ca5151825488eb8c3cdaf2b6e4&#038;tadd=0x804051B0cbc20443943C4F363573eF9bB7793375&#038;qt=1\">copied<\/a> an address that only matched the first four and last six characters of the legitimate one.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXctZvZacac-sSpfKYo855aTaGke2Ve7wvHFwojob6nhiN1kSJLSrgXjsOGL6b99-m28KSpd1WqmCHLKKB6tT5VX9D71yYVJKujYoy9Dc2Eoq4rSX2fYIsYoYMD1nxk4dVSXVVm_vw?key=Ydxxu_YfXsCOya_z2gJzSe02\" alt=\"User Loses Over $760,000 Due to Address 'Poisoning'\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realScamSniffer\/status\/1894590739704943013\">Scam Sniffer<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As a result of the transfer, the user lost $763,662.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Poisoning&#8217; scams occur when a fraudster sends a small amount of digital assets from a wallet with a similar address to confuse the victim and trick them into using incorrect details.<\/p>\n<p>Back in June 2024, hackers from Pink Drainer <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/pink-drainer-hackers-fall-victim-to-address-poisoning-scam\">fell victim<\/a> to address &#8216;poisoning&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In May, cryptocurrency exchange Binance <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/binance-unveils-solution-to-spoofing-scam\">introduced<\/a> a mechanism to combat this type of scam. The algorithm detects fake addresses by identifying suspicious transfers, such as transactions with near-zero value or low-value tokens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A user inadvertently sent a large sum to a scammer&#8217;s wallet due to transaction history &#8216;poisoning&#8217;. Analysts at Scam Sniffer highlighted the incident. ?? A victim lost $763,662 due to transaction history poisoning \u2014 copied an address matching first 4 + last 6 chars of the real address. pic.twitter.com\/i6KUl6la6a \u2014 Scam Sniffer | Web3 Anti-Scam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21510,"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":[44,1246],"class_list":["post-21511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybercrime","tag-scammers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"46","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21511","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=21511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}