The undeniable crypto users have lost more than $ 1.6 million to scammers by attacking poisoning only this week -a figure that has hit the entire month of March.
One victim lost 140 ether (Eth), worth nearly $ 636,500, on Friday after copying the wrong address from a contaminated transfer history, reported the Crypto scam scamsniffer’s Crypto scam platform.
“The user usually sent 140 ETHs to a lookalike address that was seeded in history after a copy-paste mistake,” said the team, which added, “his history is full of poison address attacks, so just a few hours before BITAG works.”
Another victim lost The $ 880,000 amount of crypto to meet the poisoning on Sunday, while other alerts show a crypto user who lost $ 80,000, and another lost $ 62,000 on Wednesday to scammers.
Alerting alerts from cybersecurity companies, cointelegraph found that more than $ 1.6 million lost to scammers by The procedure Since Sunday, over the whole month of March, who has seen $ 1.2 million lost to meet poisoning.
🚨 Nearly one million has been lost in a poisoning scam.@web3_antivirus A live poisoning scheme was found to have been drained by nearly $ 880K in the USDT. A purse poisoned its history, and both of them are likely to re -return a stuck move from three more wallets, each of which sends … pic.twitter.com/n8ihy7mkis
– Cointelegraph (@cointelegraph) August 12, 2025
Responding to poisoning depends on mimic addresses
Addressing poisoning involves sending small transactions from purse addresses that resemble legitimacy, which doubts users to copy the wrong address when making future transactions.
“Poisons send small transfers from addresses that mimic a real, so copying from history becomes a trap,” explains the web3 antivirus, a firm that offers blockchain security solutions.
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This leads to “poisoning in transaction history,” where the scammer sends a fake move with a similar address, which appears in the victim’s transaction history. The victim copies the PHONY address and sends funds to the scammer, Explained Scamsniffer on Friday.
Malicious signature on signing
In addition to the million dollar poisoning addresses, at least $ 600,000 lost this week from victims to sign maliciously phishing Signatures such as “Approved,” “Raising Signatures,” and “Permit” signatures, According to In scamsniffer.
On Tuesday, a victim lost a $ 165,000 worth of block and Dolo tokens after signing malicious signatures, Scamsniffer reported.
“We look like a broken note, but it’s worth mentioning again: use an address book or whitelist and verify the full address,” before sending, Scamsniffer wrote.
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