A cryptocurrency user lost approximately $68 million in a sophisticated address poisoning scam involving 1,155 wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC). The scam, detected by blockchain security firms, involved the victim mistakenly sending the funds to a similar-looking but fraudulent address, EOA 0xd9A1. The erroneous transaction was prompted by a deceptive operation where the scammer mimicked a transfer of 0.05 ETH, leading the victim to copy the wrong address from their transaction history. The stolen funds, approximately 23K $ETH, were subsequently converted to Ethereum and moved, complicating recovery efforts.
Someone accidentally sent $71 MILLION dollars in wrapped bitcoin to a phishing address. A scammer created a similar address. He thought he was sending it to himself but sent it to the scam address instead. This is why you MUST always do a small test before sending crypto!… https://t.co/HWyMOzg4C9
Someone accidentally sent $71 MILLION dollars in wrapped bitcoin to a phishing address. A scammer created a similar address. He thought he was sending it to himself but sent it to the scam address instead. This is why you MUST always do a small test before sending a crypto!… https://t.co/OMJhU1rTbv
A cryptocurrency user has lost $68 million worth of $WBTC after falling victim to an "address poisoning" exploit, according to blockchain security firm @CertiK. https://t.co/OOOyfCkqyM
A trader just lost $68M worth of wrapped Bitcoin on Ethereum because they didn’t quadruple check the address they were sending money to with autistic precision. Don’t be this trader. Stay vigilant. Stay tistic. Also they were using wrapped bitcoin on Ethereum.
🚨Do you ever check digit by digit your wallet address when sending crypto? 🚨 If not, then this article is a must read. https://t.co/dVi5ddq7dK
Latest from @zachxbt Someone was drained for $18M (~5800 ETH) from their Coinbase account 9 hours ago. Funds were immediately transferred to instant exchanges and bridged to Bitcoin via THORChain, tBTC, and Wan Bridge. Theft address 0xf2fB2844C46C19A623957Ed6DBaB148301B18161 https://t.co/9vhk1nPZG5
Someone lost $70 million WBTC in a poison attack today. 1) what @CertiKAlert first alerted of the malicious transaction early Friday morning. The attacker mimicked a transfer of 0.05 ETH, or $150, which led the victim to send the funds to the wrong address. How 👇
Crypto scammers successfully stole a whopping 1,155 wrapped Bitcoin using a technique that tricks users into malicious transactions https://t.co/TnV0uTsaj6
#PeckShieldAlert #Phishing A whale 0x1E22...8FD5 lost ~1,155 $WBTC (worth ~$71 million) after falling victim to address poisoning. The phisher has swapped the stolen $WBTC for ~23K $ETH & transferred them out https://t.co/dr7eTYQkAX
BREAKING‼️ Someone just lost $68 million in crypto by copy/pasting the wrong address and pressing send. 😱 https://t.co/ATUtuO44UG
Victim loses over $71 million worth of WBTC in purported 'address poisoning' attack https://t.co/Km6eQYi24S
NEWS: Someone lost $68M worth of $WBTC by accidentally transferring their funds to a wrong address
Successful $68mn address poisoning attack. Never ever ever ever ever ever ever taking your sending address from Etherscan. Always take it directly from the wallet or exchange you're sending to. https://t.co/nPh4N85dbt
Successful $86mn address poisoning attack. Never ever ever ever ever ever ever taking your sending address from Etherscan. Always take it directly from the wallet or exchange you're sending to. https://t.co/nPh4N85dbt
A trader just lost $68M worth of wrapped Bitcoin on Ethereum because they didn’t quadruple check the address they were sending money to with autistic precision. Don’t be this trader. Stay vigilant. Stay tistic.
There's news swirling about that $68.3M worth of $WBTC, suspected to have been lost in an address-poisoning scam. 👉 What is wallet-poisoning? It's when scammers deceive folks into sending money to their own wallets. 👉 These scammers pull off their scheme by flooding the… https://t.co/quaHVKz026
$68M (1155WBTC) lost after victim fell for address poisoning attack! • Wrong address: 0xd9A1C3788D81257612E2581A6ea0aDa244853a91 • Correct address: 0xd9A1b0B1e1aE382DbDc898Ea68012FfcB2853a91 Guys never blind copy paste addresses from your TX history. Just NEVER.
Victim Loses 1155 WBTC Worth $68M to Address Poisoning Scam, EOA 0xd9A1 Involved Read More: https://t.co/4gMixBa1cY
🚨 JUST IN: Address poisoning scam claims $68M in Wrapped #Bitcoin from an unknown trader, per @CyversAlerts. https://t.co/K0g7JZcJte
#CertiKInsight 🚨 Our system has detected a transfer of 1,155 WBTC (~$69.3m) to an address linked to address poisoning EOA 0xd9A1 mimicked a transfer of 0.05 ETH which led the victim to send the funds to the wrong address Stolen funds are here https://t.co/m2xpJW0QIZ https://t.co/PWFhEsEN2G
🚨💔 2 hours ago, another victim lost $68 million by copying the wrong address from a contaminated transfer history. https://t.co/DepNCnyXhM