Address Poisoning Attacks Surge With $1.6M Stolen This Week

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 (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…