❌🤯 One of the victims lost around 2.6 million dollars in USDT due to a scam known as "Address Poisoning".

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🚨💸 A Whale Lost $2.5M in USDT to a Simple Yet Devastating Scam: Address Poisoning

Imagine losing millions of dollars—not through bad trades, not through market crashes—but by falling for the same scam twice.

This is the shocking story of one crypto whale who lost $2.5 million in two clicks… all thanks to a deceptive trick called Address Poisoning.

🤯 What Is Address Poisoning?

Scammers send small, fake transactions to your wallet using an address that looks nearly identical to yours. Their goal? Trick you into copying their address from your transaction history instead of your real one.

And unfortunately… it worked. Twice.

⚠️ How the Scam Happened:

1️⃣ First Mistake – Blind Trust in Transaction History

The victim needed to send USDT and, like many of us, copied the wallet address from a previous transaction in his history.

But that address had been "poisoned"—it belonged to a scammer.

🔻 Loss: $843,000 sent directly to the fraudster.

2️⃣ Second Mistake – Same Action, Bigger Damage

Thinking the address was safe (since it had been used before), he reused it to send more USDT.

But it was still the scammer’s lookalike address.

🔻 Loss: $1.7 million gone. Again.

💀 Total Damage: $2.5 MILLION in Two Innocent Clicks

This wasn’t a hack. No code was broken.

Just a clever illusion—and a costly oversight.

🛡️ How to Stay Safe:

✅ Never copy wallet addresses from transaction history.

✅ Double-check every character in the wallet address before sending.

✅ Use address labeling or whitelisting features offered by wallets.

✅ Send a small test transaction before large transfers.