What it looks like
You regularly send funds to the same address. A fraudster creates a new address that shares the first and last few characters, then sends you a zero-value or tiny transfer from it. It now appears in your history. Next time you copy an address from that history, you may copy theirs.
Red flags
- Unexpected tiny or zero-value transfers in your wallet history.
- An address that matches the start and end of one you know, but not the middle.
What to do next
- Always copy addresses from a saved contact or the original source, never from history.
- Check the full address, not just the first and last characters.
- Run unfamiliar addresses through the wallet checker.