$50 MILLION GONE IN ONE CLICK

A crypto user just learned the most expensive lesson in Web3 history.

Here’s what happened:

THE SETUP:

🔹 Victim sent 50 USDT test transaction to his own wallet (0xbaf4…F8b5) ✅

🔹 Everything looked good, so he prepared to send $50M more

THE TRAP:

🔹 Scammer was watching

🔹 Created a FAKE wallet with same first & last 4 characters

🔹 Sent dust transaction to victim (address poisoning attack)

🔹 Fake address now appears in victim’s transaction history

THE MISTAKE:

🔹 Victim copied address from transaction history

🔹 Only checked first/last letters: “0xbaf4…F8b5” ✅

🔹 Looked identical because wallets hide middle characters with “…”

🔹 Sent 49,999,950 USDT to SCAMMER’s address 💀

RESULT:

$50,000,000 LOST FOREVER

⚠️ PROTECT YOURSELF:

❌ NEVER copy addresses from transaction history

❌ NEVER just check first/last characters

✅ ALWAYS verify the FULL address

✅ ALWAYS use address book/saved contacts

✅ ALWAYS do multiple small tests for large amounts