Rip-off Alert: MetaMask Warns Crypto Customers About Address Poisoning

A new crypto pockets address scam that tries to spend perfect thing about particular person carelessness has been on the upward push, in step with the MetaMask crew.

In an announcement, digital pockets provider MetaMask warned customers of an “address poisoning scam,” the put apart attackers “poison” transaction histories by sending customers tokens value $0 to their wallets. The scammers will employ pockets addresses generated from arrogance address mills and match the first and closing characters of their sufferer’s pockets address. This will get unsuspecting customers to ship their funds to the inappropriate copycat address.