🤔After the address poisoning attack, the scammer returned $203,000 to the victim.
An unusual story occurred in the TON network. A user accidentally sent about 126,000 TON (~$220,000) to a scammer after an address poisoning attack — this is when a malicious actor creates an address very similar to a real one, causing the victim to mistakenly copy it from the transaction history.
But then something unexpected happened.
After receiving the money, the scammer returned 116,000 TON (~$203,000), keeping only 10,000 TON (~$17,000) for himself. He even added a message to the transfer:
"Sorry, but this is too much. Please take it back — I know this is serious money. Peace".
In the crypto community, he has humorously been dubbed the "scammer with a conscience" 😄
Such cases are rare, but not unique. For example, after the Poly Network hack in 2021, a hacker withdrew $612 million and then started returning funds, claiming he only wanted to demonstrate the protocol's vulnerability.
An unusual story occurred in the TON network. A user accidentally sent about 126,000 TON (~$220,000) to a scammer after an address poisoning attack — this is when a malicious actor creates an address very similar to a real one, causing the victim to mistakenly copy it from the transaction history.
But then something unexpected happened.
After receiving the money, the scammer returned 116,000 TON (~$203,000), keeping only 10,000 TON (~$17,000) for himself. He even added a message to the transfer:
"Sorry, but this is too much. Please take it back — I know this is serious money. Peace".
In the crypto community, he has humorously been dubbed the "scammer with a conscience" 😄
Such cases are rare, but not unique. For example, after the Poly Network hack in 2021, a hacker withdrew $612 million and then started returning funds, claiming he only wanted to demonstrate the protocol's vulnerability.