Metamask wallet users are warned to look for address poisoning attacks-Wallets

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To avoid the victim of an address poisoning, metamask wallet users should give up the practice of copying and inserting wallet addresses, the Support team has warned of the crypto wallet app. Instead, metamask users should "develop a habit of thoroughly checking every single sign of an address" before sending a transaction.

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Metamask crypto wallet users should be careful of a new fraudulent tactic, which is known as a address poisoning and depends above all on the “carelessness and hurry” of the user, the team has warned behind the software cryptocurrency wallet. The Metamask team added that the attack method may seem harmless, "but can lead to loss of money just as easily".

in his 11th January This explains how fraudulator apply this new tactic to unsuspecting Stealing users, said the Metamask Support team, that cybercriminals and frauds often take advantage of common behaviors among crypto users, such as copying and inserting wallet addresses. Although this ensures that funds are sent to the right address, the team warned that fraudsters know that many users are not willing to remember their wallet addresses. The statement was:

"Because they are so long, crypto wallet addresses are normally shortened. You may only see the first signs or sometimes the first 5-10 or so and the last 5-10 or something, whereby the middle is skipped. This is how most people recognize: not to know every single sign, but to familiarize yourself with the beginning and end. This is the tendency that deals with poisoning."

users must check each individual character in a wallet address

According to the Metamask Support team, fraudsters often initiate a poison attack by sending a negligible amount to a dummy wallet address that is very similar to that of a metamask wallet user. After that, the fraudster is waiting and hopes for the target user "will accidentally copy your address from your transaction course and insert it elsewhere".

Since transactions such as these are considered unchangeable or irreversible, they are lost forever when funds are sent to the wrong address. Therefore, wallet users have to take all precautionary measures, including the "review of each individual sign". The Metamask Support team said that Wallet users have to try to end the practice of copying addresses from their transaction.

Instead, Wallet users should "develop a habit of thoroughly checking every single sign of an address before sending a transaction".

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Terence Zimwara

Terence Zimwara is an award -winning journalist, author and writer from Zimbabwe. He wrote in detail about the economic problems of some African countries and how digital currencies Africans can offer an escape route.












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