⚠️⚠️⚠️ Beware of Address Poisoning

[bayu7adi]

Lol this is really crazy, I mean things these scammers do to defraud people o their hard earned money. This technique is quite similar to the clipboard virus scam, where the scammers create a keyboard that enables the clipboard option, and when you eventually download this special keyboard and use it to copy an address you intend to send funds to, the scammer remotely changes the address you copied, replacing it with his own address, and the victim moves straight to make the transaction with full assurance that he has copied the right address. Many techniques will still come up in the future, and there’ll always be people who fall for these scams, but if you’re always cautious and double check every step of the transaction then you’re likely to avoid these scams.

Whether the fraud method uses a clipboard, or other methods explained in this thread, both target people who are lazy to double-check their transaction details... if seen from its effectiveness, the fraud method that utilizes a clipboard is usually better, because the target is clearly going to make a transaction... out of 1000 targets, maybe 10 people will not double-check the details of the destination address of their transaction....

Basically, thoroughness is the last thing to avoid this type of fraud...

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

Whether the fraud method uses a clipboard, or other methods explained in this thread, both target people who are lazy to double-check their transaction details... if seen from its effectiveness, the fraud method that utilizes a clipboard is usually better, because the target is clearly going to make a transaction... out of 1000 targets, maybe 10 people will not double-check the details of the destination address of their transaction....

Basically, thoroughness is the last thing to avoid this type of fraud...

Yeah this is true.
Some people would just proceed and not double check with the consciousness and assurance that they’ve copied the correct wallet, so they’ll assume that any wallet they past would be the correct wallet since they’ve not copied any other wallet, only those who are super careful would be able to notice and avoid this kind of scams. But the wallet poisoning scam is only targeted to those who have the habit of copying the address from their transaction history to make Althea subsequent transactions, which of course very few people do. Personally, I don’t think if I’ve done it before, maybe once or twice but that’s it, so it’ll be pretty difficult to catch anyone with this kind of scam.

[MUGNIA]

very surprising for this if not really careful in every asset transaction then in an instant the assets owned will be lost, fraudsters are everywhere, currently TON is a popular network because of the tap game and other coin memes, so the fraudsters move to TON to act
btw thank you OP for sharing this news

[Celph]

Beware of Addressing poisoning on TON blockchain.



Address poisoning is a new scam tactic which is becoming more common on TON. Scammers send 0 TON transactions from fake wallets designed to look like a legitimate one you just interacted with, tricking you into sending funds to a wrong address.


🔍 How It Works:

- A normal wallet interaction occurs, such as receiving an NFT or Token from a wallet.

- Soon after, 0 TON transactions appear from an address mimicking the original sender’s address.

- These scam addresses copy the first 4 and last 4 characters of the trusted address, hoping you’ll accidentally copy the wrong one when making a future transaction.


🛡️ How to Protect Yourself:

- Always verify the full address before sending funds—don’t rely on just the first and last characters.

- Avoid copying addresses from your transaction history or explorer. Always copy the address from the main source.

- Ignore small random transactions (like 0 TON) from unknown wallets—these could be part of a scam.

Address poisoning exploits user habits by making addresses look familiar. Stay vigilant and double-check every transaction to avoid sending funds to scam wallets.

🔒Stay safe

Reference :TonNomads

Well,i'm literally just getting to know about this.
What's even more suprising is that people even still look at the first three digits and the first four digits.This is really something to be surprised about cause i believe in this 24'th century,people should be crucially shaped in their mindset when making bitcoin,or generally,crypto transactions because scams are so common now.
Well,i personally dont just look at few of the first and last digits when making transactions,i make sure to be sure of the address and make sure it hoes in line number to number, do not just make transactions just like that.There are scammers lurking everywhere comrades!

[Hinata]

Beware of Addressing poisoning on TON blockchain.



Address poisoning is a new scam tactic which is becoming more common on TON. Scammers send 0 TON transactions from fake wallets designed to look like a legitimate one you just interacted with, tricking you into sending funds to a wrong address.


🔍 How It Works:

- A normal wallet interaction occurs, such as receiving an NFT or Token from a wallet.

- Soon after, 0 TON transactions appear from an address mimicking the original sender’s address.

- These scam addresses copy the first 4 and last 4 characters of the trusted address, hoping you’ll accidentally copy the wrong one when making a future transaction.


🛡️ How to Protect Yourself:

- Always verify the full address before sending funds—don’t rely on just the first and last characters.

- Avoid copying addresses from your transaction history or explorer. Always copy the address from the main source.

- Ignore small random transactions (like 0 TON) from unknown wallets—these could be part of a scam.

Address poisoning exploits user habits by making addresses look familiar. Stay vigilant and double-check every transaction to avoid sending funds to scam wallets.

🔒Stay safe

Reference :TonNomads [nofollow]

Well,i'm literally just getting to know about this.
What's even more suprising is that people even still look at the first three digits and the first four digits.This is really something to be surprised about cause i believe in this 24'th century,people should be crucially shaped in their mindset when making bitcoin,or generally,crypto transactions because scams are so common now.
Well,i personally dont just look at few of the first and last digits when making transactions,i make sure to be sure of the address and make sure it hoes in line number to number, do not just make transactions just like that.There are scammers lurking everywhere comrades!

Exactly,today,various scamers are bringing up various techniques to defraud people of their crypto's.particularly,I'm just getting to know about this method ,it is quite important to be aware of this.
My say on this is that individuals and investors should be fully sure of the wallet address you are making a particular crypto transaction to.I find it very funny that people still use this method while making cryptocurrency transactions since we are all aware of cases whereby crypto is being sent to the wrong wallet or crypto is being defrauded through such notifications.Be careful when making crypto transaction pals ,crypto is not easily recovered when being sent to the wrong address

[MRY]

Exactly,today,various scamers are bringing up various techniques to defraud people of their crypto's.particularly,I'm just getting to know about this method ,it is quite important to be aware of this.
My say on this is that individuals and investors should be fully sure of the wallet address you are making a particular crypto transaction to.I find it very funny that people still use this method while making cryptocurrency transactions since we are all aware of cases whereby crypto is being sent to the wrong wallet or crypto is being defrauded through such notifications.Be careful when making crypto transaction pals ,crypto is not easily recovered when being sent to the wrong address

We also have to be cautious of the many forms of fraud targeting users of crypto, given the numerous methods used in defrauding shareholders of their digital assets. Understanding these fraud methods makes us be wary of almost every transaction that involves a crypto wallet.

There is always a risk of losing cash once we transact, so, we have to be very careful with the wallet address before transacting in crypto. As mentioned, transactions are irreversible, everyone should be very careful to protect out cryptocurrencies from hackers and other individuals who may steal our hard earned money.