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Crypto Discussion Forum => Cryptocurrency discussions => Topic started by: Ambatman on April 06, 2024, 09:47:10 PM
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I never knew this was possible so usually just copy the address and send without confirming much. Well turns out that was a big mistake on my part. Never knew that clipboard can do such. I don't know if it's a malware, I ended up using an address that wasn't mine and funny holds some units of Bitcoin.
Still confused how something like this could happen, but try to be cautious and don't feel too lazy to cross check your address before sending or posting. Recall Bitcoin transactions are irreversible after 6 confirmations, once confirmed it's gone. You can tell the wallet address it went to but not the owner. Except they are careless, which I doubt they are.
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If you doesn't know what could go wrong if it's not on your browser's extension then consider your device is infected. I recommend to reformat your device to avoid such incident to happen again.
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I have experienced this, wrongly sending tokens to a coin's smart contract instead of my personal wallet address.
This happened because I did it in a hurry, so.. it is very important that we double-check the wallet address to which we will send assets before we press the send button.
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I have experienced this, wrongly sending tokens to a coin's smart contract instead of my personal wallet address.
This happened because I did it in a hurry, so.. it is very important that we double-check the wallet address to which we will send assets before we press the send button.
Unfortunately, the assets you send to the smart contract will be lost and cannot be sent back. That is why when carrying out cryptocurrency transactions you have to pay attention to the address which must be appropriate and correct, sometimes the size of a letter or one different letter will make our assets trapped forever.
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This is one big reason why I usually triple check the wallet address whom I am sending my coins to so that nothing shenanigan can transpire as we know it would be almost impossible to reverse the transaction so if something can change the address then what you send is already lost forever. So far I never experienced something like this but I heard of an online friend before who told of the same problem and he was shocked to learned that he use a different wallet address and not the one he intend to send funds to. In this case, there must be a malicious malware hidden in one's computer that will come alive once one is transferring something. So until the problem is found, one should refrain from using the same computer or laptop in cryptocurrency business. I never thought the same thing can still be happening these days but we know that this can be one of the many risks we have to deal while in crypto world...we should be careful all the time.
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If you download a lot of applications, you end up with clippers (also known as clipboard hijackers), which have access to the data that you copy and then modify it for what the hackers want.
Mostly, any Bitcoin address is changed to the hackers' address, so you must verify the address several times.
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there is a related thread created back years in other forum about this in which many prominent account are giving warning not to copy and paste your wallet address without completely checking your copied address.
that is the big mistake of an account involved and I believe it is malware that directed your sent funds into another wallet without you knowing it.
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I never knew this was possible so usually just copy the address and send without confirming much. Well turns out that was a big mistake on my part. Never knew that clipboard can do such. I don't know if it's a malware, I ended up using an address that wasn't mine and funny holds some units of Bitcoin.
Still confused how something like this could happen, but try to be cautious and don't feel too lazy to cross check your address before sending or posting. Recall Bitcoin transactions are irreversible after 6 confirmations, once confirmed it's gone. You can tell the wallet address it went to but not the owner. Except they are careless, which I doubt they are.
- Maybe when that's the problem, @PX-Z is right that reformatting is the best solution you should do. Also, when it comes to such transaction situations,
we should always double check to make sure that the destination of the bitcoin or cryptocurrency we are sending is correct.
As long as we always be cautious in what we do in any transaction that we use the platform, it's that simple to understand.
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It doesn't take much time to copy a smart contract but when a user shows a wrong address despite having copied it correctly it means that the device is infected with malware. Format the drive as soon as possible and remove the malware otherwise those errors will keep repeating and a user will lose his resources. When copying a smart contract, the utmost care must be taken. Where checking the address even if it takes a few minutes more, it should be done with time. Those who have been victims of such acts know how important it is to exercise caution.
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Still confused how something like this could happen, but try to be cautious and don't feel too lazy to cross check your address before sending or posting. Recall Bitcoin transactions are irreversible after 6 confirmations, once confirmed it's gone. You can tell the wallet address it went to but not the owner. Except they are careless, which I doubt they are.
If you download pirated software/cracks, it is very likely that clipboard malware was hidden in one of them, and that is a much smaller accident than being infected with a RAT (remote access trojan), with which a hacker can actually completely control your computer. If you want to have a "clean" computer, you will have to change your habits, or get a new computer only for serious things.
1 or 6 confirmations are the same for an ordinary mortal, and the only chance to turn the situation in your favor is to manage to react quickly enough and send BTC back to your address with the help of RBF.
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If you download pirated software/cracks, it is very likely that clipboard malware was hidden in one of them, and that is a much smaller accident than being infected with a RAT (remote access trojan), with which a hacker can actually completely control your computer. If you want to have a "clean" computer, you will have to change your habits, or get a new computer only for serious things.
There are fake apps on application stores. Both Google Playstore and Apple store. There are many apps that those stores will not know that contain what can be used to steal your coins. That is why it is better you get a device you do not use to download too much apps than to be using it for just wallets. Also a device which will not be used to download executable files and other things but just for wallet only is better for online wallets.
1 or 6 confirmations are the same for an ordinary mortal, and the only chance to turn the situation in your favor is to manage to react quickly enough and send BTC back to your address with the help of RBF.
But the transaction may not be the one that has RBF. It can also be too late, only one confirmation is enough for double spending not to work and the coin sent to a wrong address without no recovery of any kind possible.
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If you download a lot of applications, you end up with clippers (also known as clipboard hijackers), which have access to the data that you copy and then modify it for what the hackers want.
Mostly, any Bitcoin address is changed to the hackers' address, so you must verify the address several times.
Absolutely right. This is why I never install any extensions on my computer other than the browser wallets I need. In the worst case scenario, these extensions can start mining, but in the worst case, what is described in the main post will happen. It’s also strange that the antivirus didn’t work, it should have It is necessary to squeak. From this I conclude that he either did not stand or was generally weak.
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I'm really sorry to hear that you experienced that. That's really a bad experience and I hope you don't get swayed away with cryptocurrency and learn from your mistakes. You must make amends to that in a way that you wouldn't repeat it.
It's a good practice to check the final transaction and see the address. Sometimes you have to verify as well on your exchange (if that's where you will be transferring) if they made amends to their receiving addresses.
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This is one big reason why I usually triple check the wallet address whom I am sending my coins to so that nothing shenanigan can transpire as we know it would be almost impossible to reverse the transaction so if something can change the address then what you send is already lost forever. So far I never experienced something like this but I heard of an online friend before who told of the same problem and he was shocked to learned that he use a different wallet address and not the one he intend to send funds to. In this case, there must be a malicious malware hidden in one's computer that will come alive once one is transferring something. So until the problem is found, one should refrain from using the same computer or laptop in cryptocurrency business. I never thought the same thing can still be happening these days but we know that this can be one of the many risks we have to deal while in crypto world...we should be careful all the time.
Caution is never redundant in this market, fortunately I have never encountered a similar situation. I use Ubuntu on my laptop to manage crypto-related information and it seems to be much safer than Windows, and I also don't install any unnecessary software on that laptop. Viruses are everywhere and can change the address to the address of hackers to steal users' crypto assets.
Even the US government has to transfer 0.001 BTC or 1 BTC before moving thousands of BTC, that is a good habit that we need to learn and follow when we want to move our crypto assets, whether it is large or small. Everyone should also double-check the transaction information before confirming, in addition to the mismatch of the receiving address, gas fees are also one of the mistakes that many users make.
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Cross checking wallet address to make sure it matches the exact wallet we want to send funds to after copying and pasting it, is just as important as securing our wallet to make sure it doesn't get hacked, alot of cases I've seen where people sent their funds the wrong address and just like that, the money is gone.
One that happens recently involved a huge amount of $90,000 which the user mistakenly sent to usdt contract address on Tron blockchain, instead of sending to his kucoin address, that is, the nigga is a well known bitcoiner here in my country, he was to buy a coin listed on kucoin exchange, he decide to move $90,000 from his Binance account to kucoin exchange, he opened his kucoin account, went to the usdt deposit page, selected TRX network and copied his address, he did not know what happened, there was some kind of mix which he did not notice, he went to his Binance account and pasted the wallet address, unknown to him that it was the contract address of TRON USDT that he pasted, he did all the confirmation and the fund were sent, transaction confirmed on blockchain but his kucoin wallet was empty, upon checking to see what happened, he discovered he sent the $90,000 to USDT contract address on Tron, instead of his kucoin usdt wallet address.
This are the transaction hash for whoever wants to confirm - https://tronscan.org/#/transaction/c6c87f47cd686d940a8c1f5f6a9b54300be4799234851790d191fb9327c8d354 (https://tronscan.org/#/transaction/c6c87f47cd686d940a8c1f5f6a9b54300be4799234851790d191fb9327c8d354)
https://tronscan.org/#/transaction/b0d58fbd06ddf9a566100f9e985d52ff7998ba7d4f643759d618350509b11ebf (https://tronscan.org/#/transaction/b0d58fbd06ddf9a566100f9e985d52ff7998ba7d4f643759d618350509b11ebf)
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I never knew this was possible so usually just copy the address and send without confirming much. Well turns out that was a big mistake on my part. Never knew that clipboard can do such. I don't know if it's a malware, I ended up using an address that wasn't mine and funny holds some units of Bitcoin.
Still confused how something like this could happen, but try to be cautious and don't feel too lazy to cross check your address before sending or posting. Recall Bitcoin transactions are irreversible after 6 confirmations, once confirmed it's gone. You can tell the wallet address it went to but not the owner. Except they are careless, which I doubt they are.
Clipboard malware has been long time known on which this is usually something that you could really be able to get when you are really that loving on downloading anything on the net.
This is something that you should really be avoiding up in the first place on trying out to click up some links or whatsoever because once you do download something then you are prone into
getting those viruses or malwares on which it would really be causing for you to lose up those files and exposed personal pc information and even with that basic clipboard malware.
If you cant really be able to notice it out then say goodbye into your funds even if we do say that a transaction would be having that 1 confirmation.
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I have experienced this, wrongly sending tokens to a coin's smart contract instead of my personal wallet address.
This happened because I did it in a hurry, so.. it is very important that we double-check the wallet address to which we will send assets before we press the send button.
Unfortunately, the assets you send to the smart contract will be lost and cannot be sent back. That is why when carrying out cryptocurrency transactions you have to pay attention to the address which must be appropriate and correct, sometimes the size of a letter or one different letter will make our assets trapped forever.
It's true that my assets were completely lost due to my own fault, it all happened because I rushed to make a transaction without checking first. I thought the wallet I copied was correct, but it turned out the smart contract address was still attached to it.
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I have experienced this, wrongly sending tokens to a coin's smart contract instead of my personal wallet address.
This happened because I did it in a hurry, so.. it is very important that we double-check the wallet address to which we will send assets before we press the send button.
Unfortunately, the assets you send to the smart contract will be lost and cannot be sent back. That is why when carrying out cryptocurrency transactions you have to pay attention to the address which must be appropriate and correct, sometimes the size of a letter or one different letter will make our assets trapped forever.
It's true that we can get trapped and lose the funds we have, if we send it wrongly and we don't know the owner of the wallet, but it's different if we send it to the wrong exchange and it's our own account.
I once sent the wrong exchange address and after going through several processes my funds were returned
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I never knew this was possible so usually just copy the address and send without confirming much. Well turns out that was a big mistake on my part. Never knew that clipboard can do such. I don't know if it's a malware, I ended up using an address that wasn't mine and funny holds some units of Bitcoin.
Still confused how something like this could happen, but try to be cautious and don't feel too lazy to cross check your address before sending or posting. Recall Bitcoin transactions are irreversible after 6 confirmations, once confirmed it's gone. You can tell the wallet address it went to but not the owner. Except they are careless, which I doubt they are.
I have not experienced this before but it's good that you shared and suspect it could be due to malware on your device or the app in question.
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Still confused how something like this could happen, but try to be cautious and don't feel too lazy to cross check your address before sending or posting.
As mentioned above by several users - it was mostly caused by a malware.
Personally, I’ve never experienced something like this before, because each time I’m to send some coins I make sure I triple check and by triple checking I don’t mean just checking the first and last four digits alone - I usually check the entire address because there have been reports of scammers using address that are similar to yours so as to convince you that you copied the right address.
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Back in 2022, I came across a post where a member on the other forums, talked about being attack with clipboard virouse and he also mistakenly sent his coins to a wrong address that the virus have changed from the original addres to the one the virus generated. Right from the time I saw that post, I have been very conscious to cross check wallet addres before I make any payment.
Sorry you had to lose your coin but we actually face this kind of experience to learn from our mistakes.
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Caution is never redundant in this market, fortunately I have never encountered a similar situation. I use Ubuntu on my laptop to manage crypto-related information and it seems to be much safer than Windows, and I also don't install any unnecessary software on that laptop. Viruses are everywhere and can change the address to the address of hackers to steal users' crypto assets.
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I generally agree that caution is something that has no alternative when it comes to cryptocurrencies, especially their storage and transactions. I also agree that any Linux based OS is more secure than Windows OS, but even the latter can be quite secure if we use it in a way that we don't do things that are risky.
Pirate software, crack, various content from torrents, as well as visits to "suspicious websites" are not something that should be connected with our crypto wallets or any other activity related to cryptocurrencies. If someone is careless and in addition does not have some basic knowledge, then there are great chances that he will make a wrong step, regardless of which OS he uses.
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Caution is never redundant in this market, fortunately I have never encountered a similar situation. I use Ubuntu on my laptop to manage crypto-related information and it seems to be much safer than Windows, and I also don't install any unnecessary software on that laptop. Viruses are everywhere and can change the address to the address of hackers to steal users' crypto assets.
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I generally agree that caution is something that has no alternative when it comes to cryptocurrencies, especially their storage and transactions. I also agree that any Linux based OS is more secure than Windows OS, but even the latter can be quite secure if we use it in a way that we don't do things that are risky.
Pirate software, crack, various content from torrents, as well as visits to "suspicious websites" are not something that should be connected with our crypto wallets or any other activity related to cryptocurrencies. If someone is careless and in addition does not have some basic knowledge, then there are great chances that he will make a wrong step, regardless of which OS he uses.
No matter how safe we keep our device we should not ignore the cross checking the address after pasting in the send tab, I check twice or thrice to make sure I am not infected with clippers.
As you said, usage of pirated apps or even the OS is the primary reasons why many users become victims of the hackers. These attacks usually target wide range of people so we can save ourselves when we try to be sensible with our funds.
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Bad experience with Metamask, in the process of sending money from my wallet to another, the funds slipped into an unknown wallet, is this due to a lack of security because I checked the correctness of the address several times. I don't use Metamask even though it is very popular in the crypto world, but less popular and I've been using it for 2 months now and I don't have any ambiguities that would pop up in the notification or similar. You should pay attention to whom it is sent to and to whom your wallet address will be visible these days.
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Bad experience with Metamask, in the process of sending money from my wallet to another, the funds slipped into an unknown wallet, is this due to a lack of security because I checked the correctness of the address several times. I don't use Metamask even though it is very popular in the crypto world, but less popular and I've been using it for 2 months now and I don't have any ambiguities that would pop up in the notification or similar. You should pay attention to whom it is sent to and to whom your wallet address will be visible these days.
Here's possible thing happen into your situation.
1. Connected sites
2. Wallet drainer
3. Exposed PK
If you would really be trying out to check out the wallet transaction or activities then its impossible that it wont be passed up on the designated address on where you do input it from.
You wont really be that making transfers didnt push through if the said address was right and you can see everything on chain.
So your story is that unbelievable on that case.
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If you download a lot of applications, you end up with clippers (also known as clipboard hijackers), which have access to the data that you copy and then modify it for what the hackers want.
Mostly, any Bitcoin address is changed to the hackers' address, so you must verify the address several times.
Yeah I believe this might be the reason. It's not my primary phone but I do use it to surf and download applications that isn't from Google Play Store. Downloaded a mycelium wallet there to help hold earnings from campaigns without even knowing that hackers could be so specific to focus on addresses of wallet.
Like how are they aware I dabble in cryptos
Checked and found out the changes isn't just applicable to bitcoin wallet but usdt among others. Well it's an eye opener. Experience might be the harshest teacher but it sure teaches. I believe sacrificing the fund for better safekeeping of future earnings is worth it.
Rather than losing everything at once.
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No matter how safe we keep our device we should not ignore the cross checking the address after pasting in the send tab, I check twice or thrice to make sure I am not infected with clippers.
There is no doubt about that, security is up to each of us individually and requires only a little time and attention. What I would also warn about when it comes to checking our coin addresses is that there are also clipboard malware that do not change the user's addresses with random addresses, but try to find an address from their database that is as similar as possible to the original one. This trick can fool some who usually only check the first and last characters of the address.
As you said, usage of pirated apps or even the OS is the primary reasons why many users become victims of the hackers. These attacks usually target wide range of people so we can save ourselves when we try to be sensible with our funds.
I don't think anyone should use pirated software, but many people can't afford to pay for a license and that's their only choice - although they should avoid such things at all costs. At the end of the day, such software only brings them problems, and if they have any sensitive data on their computer, they will most likely face much more serious consequences.
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Bad experience with Metamask, in the process of sending money from my wallet to another, the funds slipped into an unknown wallet, is this due to a lack of security because I checked the correctness of the address several times. I don't use Metamask even though it is very popular in the crypto world, but less popular and I've been using it for 2 months now and I don't have any ambiguities that would pop up in the notification or similar. You should pay attention to whom it is sent to and to whom your wallet address will be visible these days.
Have you checked where the problem comes from I'm still using Metamask and I have no problem sending addresses to other addresses and also checked it several times and checked on Explorer after sending the funds, Metamask still works fine it is the user' negligence that may have caused it
This is a serious case if you are 100% sure the address was correct then it's landed on another address you should escalate it on Metamask to warn others but you have to first send proof that it did happen.
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Bad experience with Metamask, in the process of sending money from my wallet to another, the funds slipped into an unknown wallet, is this due to a lack of security because I checked the correctness of the address several times. I don't use Metamask even though it is very popular in the crypto world, but less popular and I've been using it for 2 months now and I don't have any ambiguities that would pop up in the notification or similar. You should pay attention to whom it is sent to and to whom your wallet address will be visible these days.
Have you checked where the problem comes from I'm still using Metamask and I have no problem sending addresses to other addresses and also checked it several times and checked on Explorer after sending the funds, Metamask still works fine it is the user' negligence that may have caused it
This is a serious case if you are 100% sure the address was correct then it's landed on another address you should escalate it on Metamask to warn others but you have to first send proof that it did happen.
Same with me, until now, I still use Metamask because of the convenience found there and there are never any difficulties or errors that can occur because we can control, again when sending. Especially for users who we often send to. We can automatically write down their names and don't need to repeat their wallet numbers. Sorry if I misinterpreted, it's possible that you entered the wrong number or copied and pasted incorrectly, so it wasn't sent correctly.
I agree, if this really happened because it was a metamask error and not because of a wrong address, of course, it would be very worrying about metamask users.
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I have experienced this, wrongly sending tokens to a coin's smart contract instead of my personal wallet address.
This happened because I did it in a hurry, so.. it is very important that we double-check the wallet address to which we will send assets before we press the send button.
Unfortunately, the assets you send to the smart contract will be lost and cannot be sent back. That is why when carrying out cryptocurrency transactions you have to pay attention to the address which must be appropriate and correct, sometimes the size of a letter or one different letter will make our assets trapped forever.
It's true that my assets were completely lost due to my own fault, it all happened because I rushed to make a transaction without checking first. I thought the wallet I copied was correct, but it turned out the smart contract address was still attached to it.
At least we learned from our own mistakes, and we don't want that to happen again. Although I haven't experienced that yet, what I'm really doing is checking it over and over as much as possible because, of course, we're talking about money here.
When making a cryptocurrency transaction, it is forbidden to make a mistake because one mistake means that we will not be able to recover the money that has been deducted from our wallet account, whether it is a deposit or a withdrawal.
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At least we learned from our own mistakes, and we don't want that to happen again. Although I haven't experienced that yet, what I'm really doing is checking it over and over as much as possible because, of course, we're talking about money here.
When making a cryptocurrency transaction, it is forbidden to make a mistake because one mistake means that we will not be able to recover the money that has been deducted from our wallet account, whether it is a deposit or a withdrawal.
This all happened because I was in a rush, usually I always double-check the wallet address that I will use for transactions in Cryptocurreny.
Because I know if I make a mistake then I will lose my money and I can't complain to anyone.
Maybe that day was my unlucky day, and I hope something like that doesn't happen again to me and to my friends too.
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This all happened because I was in a rush, usually I always double-check the wallet address that I will use for transactions in Cryptocurreny.
Because I know if I make a mistake then I will lose my money and I can't complain to anyone.
Maybe that day was my unlucky day, and I hope something like that doesn't happen again to me and to my friends too.
This is a very valuable lesson to make us more careful in the future. The reason is that this concerns our money which will be lost and never come back.
Whether we're in a hurry or not, we have to be careful when copying addresses for our transactions. Usually I also check up to 3 times to ensure whether the address is a large address or not. It is better to check repeatedly than to lose our assets.
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It's true that my assets were completely lost due to my own fault, it all happened because I rushed to make a transaction without checking first. I thought the wallet I copied was correct, but it turned out the smart contract address was still attached to it.
I once had the same experience from Electrum wallet. I was about to send Bitcoin from my wallet to an exchange and I don't know how my wallet keep changing. I didn't noticed the change of address I copied was different from that I was pasting until I was about to broadcast the transaction, I noticed the end of the wallet characters were different from the one I usually sent Bitcoin to, that's when I knew that my laptop might has been affected by Trojan malware.
My advice is that anytime you want to send bitcoin to another source, make sure to verify the wallet before you broadcast it to the bitcoin network.
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Still confused how something like this could happen, but try to be cautious and don't feel too lazy to cross check your address before sending or posting. Recall Bitcoin transactions are irreversible after 6 confirmations, once confirmed it's gone. You can tell the wallet address it went to but not the owner. Except they are careless, which I doubt they are.
I am glad you learned about this scam, I was also shocked to see the existence of such a scam although I never became a victim but learned about it via BTT, and I assume after reading your words you in fact become a victim of it right? Well, it would be great if you would have provided some proof or ss so newbies would know more about how these scammers work. Although Address spoofing is also one of their scams, in which they create a similar kind of address as the last and the first digits are the same as yours.
And you end up copying them by considering them yours, and when you send the funds they are actually going to the scammer's address. This is also an old type of scam. As we all know bull run is ongoing, and many newbies are joining crypto market and most of them are not aware of such scams. Its great that you have made this topic so it would be a reminder for those who already know it, and will be a lesson for newcomers.
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This all happened because I was in a rush, usually I always double-check the wallet address that I will use for transactions in Cryptocurreny.
Because I know if I make a mistake then I will lose my money and I can't complain to anyone.
Maybe that day was my unlucky day, and I hope something like that doesn't happen again to me and to my friends too.
This is a very valuable lesson to make us more careful in the future. The reason is that this concerns our money which will be lost and never come back.
Whether we're in a hurry or not, we have to be careful when copying addresses for our transactions. Usually I also check up to 3 times to ensure whether the address is a large address or not. It is better to check repeatedly than to lose our assets.
This clipboard malware has been known already back in the past on which tons of people had lost up their coins because of this one on which the infected device would automatically changes
the copied address which it would really be resulting into that lost of funds on which this is something that we should really be that careful when it comes to this manner. We should double
or triple check on the address and dont make yourself that in a haste when making up transactions because this is where people do usually mess up when they are really that too fast
on every actions that they are making without trying out to check out on the things that they've been dealing.
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In most cases, during copying, assets are lost on other networks when it comes to the Metamask wallet, the MEW site extension now has Enkrpypt, which withstands all threats and even contains Bitcoin. You need to be careful how you copy, for me that is the easiest part of the copy paste option.
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If you doesn't know what could go wrong if it's not on your browser's extension then consider your device is infected. I recommend to reformat your device to avoid such incident to happen again.
Actually, I do not think that this is about malware infection. This has happened to me and the coins was sent to another person. Luckily is someone I have known before and as I was explained how I used a wrong address, the person said he recieved coins from a random address and I confirmed and it was just me that sent it. I think I have copied that address back in the days but didn't know how it override the current address I copied.
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Actually, I do not think that this is about malware infection.
I wouldn't careless if it's clipboard malware there might other malware infected the OP's device already. Your case is different because you knew the owner of that address or the other way around, but it's not always the case, so it's better to do full solution than letting it on your device.
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This is a very valuable lesson to make us more careful in the future. The reason is that this concerns our money which will be lost and never come back.
Whether we're in a hurry or not, we have to be careful when copying addresses for our transactions. Usually I also check up to 3 times to ensure whether the address is a large address or not. It is better to check repeatedly than to lose our assets.
This clipboard malware has been known already back in the past on which tons of people had lost up their coins because of this one on which the infected device would automatically changes
the copied address which it would really be resulting into that lost of funds on which this is something that we should really be that careful when it comes to this manner. We should double
or triple check on the address and dont make yourself that in a haste when making up transactions because this is where people do usually mess up when they are really that too fast
on every actions that they are making without trying out to check out on the things that they've been dealing.
Exactly as I said before, we must be able to anticipate things that will make us lose assets. And even this is something we should really be able to prevent, because copying and pasting is in our own hands at that point.
The point here is that we should not rush in copying and pasting the address we will use. Don't carry out transactions when we are in a hurry, even if circumstances force us to do so, it is better to find a quiet place so that we can confirm for sure whether it is our address or not.
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I never knew this was possible so usually just copy the address and send without confirming much. Well turns out that was a big mistake on my part. Never knew that clipboard can do such. I don't know if it's a malware, I ended up using an address that wasn't mine and funny holds some units of Bitcoin.
This is really real and really important. Be careful when copying wallets. Because, malware often attacks our devices and that's really dangerous. This actually happened to my own brother. where he was sure he had copied the correct wallet, but when he pasted it, the wallet actually changed. He was completely unaware and didn't check it, because he was sure he only copied 1 wallet, not the others. and in the end, it's really a different wallet and in the end it just goes on like that.
This is a lesson that is very valuable when it comes to checking and rechecking, even when copying and pasting. At least we just check a few characters at the beginning and end and also find the wallet based on search button to ensure that the wallet is correct. This must be done carefully so as not to be disappointed too soon.
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Actually, I do not think that this is about malware infection.
I wouldn't careless if it's clipboard malware there might other malware infected the OP's device already. Your case is different because you knew the owner of that address or the other way around, but it's not always the case, so it's better to do full solution than letting it on your device.
That's right mate!
It's better to do full solution. In OP's case it could be what you suggested. In my own case it could be a bid of carelessness because I know the owner of the address and but what confused me was that I didn't just copy the address that day or few days to the day the address pasted itself. I was just imagining how the swap happened.
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Yes this is very important things to us who are involved in cryptocurrency. Some times we do mistake to copy our wallet and we lose our valuable fund. Two times i did this mistake. At first i lost $26. It was my first mistake. This mistake was wallet coping mistake. I was sent my $ in contract address. And another mistake was $58.
So i think it is very important when we will copy our wallet carefully, otherwise we will lose our valuable fund.
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I never knew this was possible so usually just copy the address and send without confirming much. Well turns out that was a big mistake on my part. Never knew that clipboard can do such. I don't know if it's a malware, I ended up using an address that wasn't mine and funny holds some units of Bitcoin.
Still confused how something like this could happen, but try to be cautious and don't feel too lazy to cross check your address before sending or posting. Recall Bitcoin transactions are irreversible after 6 confirmations, once confirmed it's gone. You can tell the wallet address it went to but not the owner. Except they are careless, which I doubt they are.
This happened to me once with Bybit during withdrawal transactions I copied a random wallet address and I double check on it and it's different on the wallet address destination so I carefully copied my own address and it's successfully tranferred. Lucky for me I saw that address before tapping confirm if not it would end very badly for my funds. So next time guys I highly recommend please double check before sending transactions as we all know transactions are irreversible.
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Caution is never redundant in this market, fortunately I have never encountered a similar situation. I use Ubuntu on my laptop to manage crypto-related information and it seems to be much safer than Windows, and I also don't install any unnecessary software on that laptop. Viruses are everywhere and can change the address to the address of hackers to steal users' crypto assets.
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I generally agree that caution is something that has no alternative when it comes to cryptocurrencies, especially their storage and transactions. I also agree that any Linux based OS is more secure than Windows OS, but even the latter can be quite secure if we use it in a way that we don't do things that are risky.
Pirate software, crack, various content from torrents, as well as visits to "suspicious websites" are not something that should be connected with our crypto wallets or any other activity related to cryptocurrencies. If someone is careless and in addition does not have some basic knowledge, then there are great chances that he will make a wrong step, regardless of which OS he uses.
No matter how safe we keep our device we should not ignore the cross checking the address after pasting in the send tab, I check twice or thrice to make sure I am not infected with clippers.
this is why i triple check each time i am copying and pasting my address and if there is an option i would rather use the qr code so i am less vulnerable in this address glitching .
As you said, usage of pirated apps or even the OS is the primary reasons why many users become victims of the hackers. These attacks usually target wide range of people so we can save ourselves when we try to be sensible with our funds.
correct and this is the sole reason why most are offering free apps downloading because it is not that game or what they are offering is importand instead the advantage they can get in you.
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From what I have learned so far, there are viruses that can detect cryptocurrency wallet addresses and then when copied and pasted, they will automatically change the copied wallet address to the hacker's wallet address. The name of this virus is Masad Stealer Malware, or perhaps there are other types of malware that have not been named but have the same mechanism.
Usually, to clean this type of virus, antivirus alone is not enough, but you have to do a complete clean. Several years ago my PC was attacked by this virus and what I know is that the hacker address does not always appear when I press CTRL + V, but more often the hacker address appears when pressing the CTRL + V button when copying my address.
I realized this when I double-checked the last few letters for the address I was going to with the one I pasted. And strangely, when it was removed using the Windows Defender antivirus, this malware returned to activity some time later after the PC was restarted.
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As you said, usage of pirated apps or even the OS is the primary reasons why many users become victims of the hackers. These attacks usually target wide range of people so we can save ourselves when we try to be sensible with our funds.
correct and this is the sole reason why most are offering free apps downloading because it is not that game or what they are offering is importand instead the advantage they can get in you.
There are other marketplaces to download apps apart from google playstore but when we are talking about paid apps are available for free or they call it modded apks which are risky and should not be even visited those sites in a device where crypto wallets are installed. There are some malware can be downloaded in the background and installed and can be completely invisible while tracking everything.
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I'm really sorry to hear that you experienced that. That's really a bad experience and I hope you don't get swayed away with cryptocurrency and learn from your mistakes. You must make amends to that in a way that you wouldn't repeat it.
It's a good practice to check the final transaction and see the address. Sometimes you have to verify as well on your exchange (if that's where you will be transferring) if they made amends to their receiving addresses.
An error that cannot be corrected once done. Rechecking the receiver's wallet address is indeed a good practice for preventing such a massive mistake, but sometimes, we find ourselves in an exciting and swift position where we just want to do things in a hasty manner.
From what I have learned so far, there are viruses that can detect cryptocurrency wallet addresses and then when copied and pasted, they will automatically change the copied wallet address to the hacker's wallet address. The name of this virus is Masad Stealer Malware, or perhaps there are other types of malware that have not been named but have the same mechanism.
Usually, to clean this type of virus, antivirus alone is not enough, but you have to do a complete clean. Several years ago my PC was attacked by this virus and what I know is that the hacker address does not always appear when I press CTRL + V, but more often the hacker address appears when pressing the CTRL + V button when copying my address.
I realized this when I double-checked the last few letters for the address I was going to with the one I pasted. And strangely, when it was removed using the Windows Defender antivirus, this malware returned to activity some time later after the PC was restarted.
I think I am currently experiencing an issue with malware affecting my phone's clipboard. When I copy a bunch of text and switch tabs to paste, there is some kind of unusual interference affecting my copied text. I have taken note of this, which means I must find a quick solution before making my next transaction.
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There are other marketplaces to download apps apart from google playstore but when we are talking about paid apps are available for free or they call it modded apks which are risky and should not be even visited those sites in a device where crypto wallets are installed. There are some malware can be downloaded in the background and installed and can be completely invisible while tracking everything.
A lot of people don't know or understand the risks involved in this thing. They often go to Google and search for moded APKs for certain apps and games download them from different websites and install them on their device where they have their financial apps as well as cryptocurrency wallets, etc. They either don't have any knowledge about malware infections or think they know everything.
I've often seen people complaining about their accounts getting hacked or their funds getting stolen and when you have a look at their phone, its full of useless apps and games and they have downloaded them from untrustworthy sources over the internet.
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I never knew this was possible so usually just copy the address and send without confirming much. Well turns out that was a big mistake on my part. Never knew that clipboard can do such. I don't know if it's a malware, I ended up using an address that wasn't mine and funny holds some units of Bitcoin.
Still confused how something like this could happen, but try to be cautious and don't feel too lazy to cross check your address before sending or posting. Recall Bitcoin transactions are irreversible after 6 confirmations, once confirmed it's gone. You can tell the wallet address it went to but not the owner. Except they are careless, which I doubt they are.
This happened to me once with Bybit during withdrawal transactions I copied a random wallet address and I double check on it and it's different on the wallet address destination so I carefully copied my own address and it's successfully tranferred. Lucky for me I saw that address before tapping confirm if not it would end very badly for my funds. So next time guys I highly recommend please double check before sending transactions as we all know transactions are irreversible.
That's right, don't be reluctant to keep repeating checking every transaction that will be carried out, because it could be that when you copy and paste it doesn't match what we want because of the work of the person who really wants to take the funds we send to get them to their place. We hope that information like what you did will also attract the attention of all colleagues so that they do not hesitate to repeat checking whether it is in accordance with what they want, so that fraudsters cannot take their fund.
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I never knew this was possible so usually just copy the address and send without confirming much. Well turns out that was a big mistake on my part. Never knew that clipboard can do such. I don't know if it's a malware, I ended up using an address that wasn't mine and funny holds some units of Bitcoin.
Still confused how something like this could happen, but try to be cautious and don't feel too lazy to cross check your address before sending or posting. Recall Bitcoin transactions are irreversible after 6 confirmations, once confirmed it's gone. You can tell the wallet address it went to but not the owner. Except they are careless, which I doubt they are.
Your wallet address is very important and before sending your wallet address to anywhere, be sure to double check that you have copied the correct address. If you are in too much hurry while copying the address and in too much hurry if you copy wrong address and submit wrong address then your payment or your money will never reach your wallet. One should never be too hasty while copying the wallet address. It doesn't take much time to copy a wallet address and it doesn't take much time to match that address with the wallet so we must be careful that we don't make mistakes while copying the wallet address.
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Your wallet address is very important and before sending your wallet address to anywhere, be sure to double check that you have copied the correct address. If you are in too much hurry while copying the address and in too much hurry if you copy wrong address and submit wrong address then your payment or your money will never reach your wallet. One should never be too hasty while copying the wallet address. It doesn't take much time to copy a wallet address and it doesn't take much time to match that address with the wallet so we must be careful that we don't make mistakes while copying the wallet address.
Sometimes you underestimate your attitude when copying and pasting your wallet address with full confidence and don't double-check because you are sure that you have copied and pasted correctly, even though when you copy and paste it, you copy and paste something that has been done before and not the latest one and that can happen. So before sending it, don't hesitate to check again and this is usually ignored.
I agree, there is no need to rush to carry out any transactions because you are not pressed for time, so you can avoid mistakes that might be made by continuing to check again.
You don't need to feel very confident if you don't repeat it to check again.