I want to share this (luckily) unsuccessful, but very clever

and close scam incident from yesterday 👇. Saved $20m. Hope it may also save you one day.

The scammers are so good now they generate addresses with the same starting and ending letters, which is what most people check for when doing a crypto transfer. In fact, many wallets hide the middle part of the address with "..." to make the UI look better.

The scammer then use this address to send you dust transactions so that the address is shown in your wallet. Now, if you want to send to the legitimate address, you might just pick one previous transactions in your wallet and copy the address. You might just copy the wrong one. This is what happened yesterday, to a very experienced crypto operator.

Positive ending for this one. The operator noticed the error right after the transaction, and we were able to request the USDT to be frozen in time. It will now take some process, including filing a police report, to reclaim the funds back. But at least, the funds won't leave with the scammers.

Fast reaction is key in these types of recovery.

Hope this will help you avoid these one day. Stay #SAFU! 🙏

https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1686764372616515585?s=46&t=r-X7zrZiwX6Shnp0N0R8Cg ⛓️

WOW. If only the scammers would put all this hard work into providing value. Thank you for this, Masha!

Always welcome Kat! And thanks to you and other our great admins ❤️👊🏻

This is a very vital information. These scammers keep learning new tricks daily

They are looking for the easiest way🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

Oh, I know, but the funny thing is, it doesn't seem easy to me. They're constantly have to be working, hustling, keeping tabs, trying again and again and again to find a mark. I know that if they can just steal a bunch of money from *one person* it seems like it'll all be worthwhile, but jeez, that sounds like *so much hard work* for...well, a life as a thief. You could work just as hard, get a steady income, and have a life where you can be satisfied that you were more than just a parasite during your time on this Earth. And it's totally possible. See "Africa Everyday" on YouTube: a prior scammer now providing snippets on his life in Africa and doing recipe exchanges with Atomic Shrimp. Babatunde is now regularly making *way more money* than he was ever to get through scamming.

And we don't need new tricks to avoid them

Well, we also keep reminding ourselves to be careful daily

That’s the thing mate

This is very important

If you don't apply caution, it wont end well

Yes Actually looking at it, it's hard work

Well said kat. You really went in details and that makes sense

Precaution is very necessary

Can you or someone please unblock me from nomercy tg group? I have no idea why I’m blocked. Thanks

Hey Yennifer. I’m only here in Official group my friend.

You must have been Caught in the bot hunt

Hello Mash, it’s been a while

Maybe. Can you unblock me or do you know who I can contact to help? Thanks

I’m not an admin on there, reach out to one

No mercy group?. What group is that?

Hi Peter, I’m around the family here always and #NoMercy ⛓️🔥❤️

NoMercy Masha 😁

#Nomercy is Allianceblock slogan

Good to always have you around

Done

Sorry to know. Lately the admin in that group, goes by the name "Cook" is banning many users there and he's claiming they are all bots, silly guy.

Fix it up

We run our own filter against scammers and bots. Feel free to dm if you don’t agree

This is becoming quite frequent

You should be withdrawn from being admin. Just stop deleting comments and banning people. Just leave the group alone.

We have an admin chat where we decide how to deal with Ai bots and scammers. If you feel mistreated feel free to dm any one of us.

Yes, I know