A small action nearly cost a huge asset.

A certain crypto investor plans to transfer funds to another wallet of his. To be cautious, he didn't directly paste the address but instead looked through his previous transaction records and found that address. He first tried transferring 50 units — it arrived smoothly, and everything seemed fine.

But he didn't realize that the scammer had already tampered with things.

The scammer did something very clever: they forged a wallet address, making the first and last four characters identical to the real address, with only a few characters in the middle being different. Then they made a very small transfer to the victim's wallet, blending it into the transaction record.

When this user selected an address from the history, they accidentally clicked on the scammer's fake address. As a result, 50 million dollars instantly flew into the scam account and could never be recovered.

**The problems exposed by this matter are very real:**

Many people only look at the first and last few characters when copying an address, and they don't carefully check the characters in between. In the crypto world, an address is a string of random characters, and even one character off is unacceptable.

**Several habits that must be developed:**

Either copy the address directly from the official source or use an address saved in your address book. The information in transaction records is unreliable because it may have been compromised. Before making large transfers, it is best to verify again using a readable method like an ENS domain. Be cautious with small transfers from unfamiliar addresses—this could likely be a trap set for you.

Cryptographic assets do not have a revoke key; once confirmed, they are permanently effective. Therefore, every step must be precise.