PANews reports that an Ethereum wallet dormant for 11 years avoided address poisoning and transferred out 2154.94 ETH
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Reportedly, an Ethereum wallet dormant for 11 years fell victim to address poisoning but still transferred approximately 4600000 USD worth of ETH to the correct address.
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Ethereum wallet dormant for 11 years transfers out 4600000 USD, successfully avoiding an address poisoning scam
PANews November 10 news, according to CoinDesk, an address that obtained ETH in the 2015 Ethereum genesis block made its first outward transfer on November 10 after being dormant for 11 years. The address first sent a test transaction of 0.05 ETH (about 106 USD) to a new address, and then 38 minutes later transferred 2154.94 ETH (about 4600000 USD) to the correct destination address. Less than 3 minutes after the test transaction was sent, two addresses with beginnings and endings highly similar to the destination address began sending tiny amounts of ETH to the old wallet, which is a typical address poisoning attack. Scammers forge similar addresses and send dust transactions in an attempt to trick users into mistakenly copying the scam address from their transaction history. However, the wallet owner did not fall for it, and the funds were ultimately transferred to the correct address. The report states that address poisoning has become a large-scale business on Ethereum, and this January Citi warned that such dust transac...
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Key points
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PANews reported on November 10, citing CoinDesk, that the address received ETH in the Ethereum genesis block in 2015, and after 11 years of dormancy, made its first outward transfer on November 10.
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The address first sent 0.05 ETH (approximately 106 USD) as a test, then transferred 2154.94 ETH (approximately 4600000 USD) to the correct destination address 38 minutes later.
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Less than 3 minutes after the test transaction was sent, two addresses highly similar to the target address at the beginning and end sent a tiny amount of ETH to that wallet.
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Reports said that the wallet owner was not fooled, and the funds were ultimately transferred to the correct address.
AI-assisted interpretation
The following is analysis, separate from reported facts. Verify important claims independently.
Address poisoning mixes similar scam addresses into a user's transaction history, tricking the user into copying the wrong address. In this report, the scammer sent a tiny amount of ETH after a test transfer, but the wallet owner did not send subsequent funds to the scam address.
Why it matters to readers
This incident shows that similar addresses appearing in transaction history may also have been deliberately placed there by scammers, and one cannot assume the recipient is correct merely because the beginning and end of an address are similar.
When making a transfer, verify the complete target address; do not directly copy seemingly familiar addresses from transaction history. Poisoning transactions still appeared after this test transaction.
Risks and unknowns
The materials do not provide a wallet address or transaction records, so the transfer and poisoning process cannot be independently verified.
The main text is truncated at the end, and the content regarding the scale of address poisoning and the Citibank warning is incomplete.
The purpose of the destination address and the subsequent flow of funds are not explained, so it cannot be determined from this whether ETH was sold.
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A fraudulent tactic in which an attacker sends a small transaction to a wallet containing a fake address that resembles a frequently used address, tricking the user into copying it and inadvertently transferring funds.
