$50 million blood lesson: How a "copying error" can empty a high-priced wallet #钱包骗局

A seemingly cautious operation still fell into a trap. A certain crypto user attempted to transfer funds to another wallet without directly copying the address, but instead selected the address from the history and first tried transferring $50 — a small transfer successfully arrived.

However, the scammer had previously executed an "address poisoning" attack: they forged a fake address that had the same first and last 4 characters as the real address, and initiated a tiny transfer to the victim's wallet. When the user copied the address from the transaction record, they accidentally selected the scammer's forged one.

As a result, $50 million was instantly transferred to the scammer's account and could not be recalled.

Key lessons:

· Always verify all characters of the address completely; do not judge by just the first and last few characters;

· The most reliable method is still to directly copy and confirm the original address, avoiding selection from transaction records;

· Be wary of small transfers from unknown addresses; they may be "poisoning" bait;

· Before large transfers, use address books, ENS domain names, and other readable methods for multiple verifications.

In the crypto world, a single character difference can mean a world of difference.