A user just lost 140 ETH that’s roughly $636,500 by copying the wrong wallet address when making a transfer.
It happened just today, as revealed by Scam Sniffer and reported across platforms like BlockBeats, Binance News, and Bitget News. The scam is known as address poisoning: attackers send tiny or zero-value “dust” transactions from look-alike wallet addresses into your transaction history. When you later copy an address to send funds, you might accidentally paste the fake one, and proof your ETH is gone, with no way to reverse it. So, always double-check the address by pasting it on a notepad or verifying every character even slight typos can cost you a fortune.