Unsuspecting crypto users lost more than $1.6 million to scammers via address poisoning attacks just this week — a figure that beats the entire month of March.
A victim lost 140 Ether ( data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://cointelegraph.com/ethereum-price” title=”null”>ETH), worth around $636,500, on Friday after copying the wrong address from a contaminated transfer history, reported crypto scam prevention platform ScamSniffer.
“The user basically sent 140 ETH to a lookalike address that had been seeded in the history after a copy-paste mistake,” said the team, who added, “his history is full of poison address attacks, so…

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