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Trader Loses $12.4M in Address Poisoning Scam

By https://coinpedia.org/ on January 31, 2026

The post Trader Loses $12.4M in Address Poisoning Scam appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News A crypto trader lost 4,556 ETH (about $12.4 million) after mistakenly copying a poisoned wallet address that looked nearly identical to Galaxy Digital’s legitimate deposit address. Scammers had polluted the victim’s transaction history with tiny dust transfers from a fake address that shared the same first and last characters as the real one. Thinking he …

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