💥 50 million USD loss — not hacked!

A single whale only trusted their own transaction history, resulting in a painful price to pay.

This is Address Poisoning, and it is rapidly evolving ⚠️

🧠 The scam works like this:

• You first send a small test transfer

• The attacker sends a 0 USD dust transaction with a similar address

• The fake address appears in your transaction history

• You copy it for a large transfer

💀 Result:

👉 49.9 million USDT sent directly to the attacker

❌ Unrecoverable, permanently lost

🚫 Don't make these mistakes again:

Copying addresses from transaction history

Only checking a few characters at the beginning and end of the address

Trusting the "recently used" addresses

✅ Correct approach:

Use an address book / whitelist

Verify the full address character by character

Use QR codes from trusted, original sources

💸 The attacker only spent a few dollars on gas fees

🔥 The victim lost 50 million USD

In the crypto world, convenience = high cost

Verification is everything

🛡️ Stay safe (STAY SAFU)