PANews 12月20日消息，慢雾创始人余弦发推称，某用户遭遇首尾字符相似地址“投毒”，损失近 5000 万 USDT。X 用户 @web3_antivirus 表示，该用户首先向正确的地址发送了一笔小额测试交易。几分钟后，5000 万美元被发送到了一个从交易记录中复制的恶意地址（首 3 字符尾 4 字符一样）。
- 玩家地址：0xcB80784ef74C98A89b6Ab8D96ebE890859600819
- 投毒地址：0xBaFF2F13638C04B10F8119760B2D2aE86b08f8b5
- 玩家期望中的地址：0xbaf4b1aF7E3B560d937DA0458514552B6495F8b5

<p>PANews 12月20日消息，慢雾创始人余弦发推称，某用户遭遇首尾字符相似地址“投毒”，损失近 5000 万 USDT。X 用户 @web3_antivirus 表示，该用户首先向正确的地址发送了一笔小额测试交易。几分钟后，5000 万美元被发送到了一个从交易记录中复制的恶意地址（首 3 字符尾 4 字符一样）。</p><ul><li>玩家地址：0xcB80784ef74C98A89b6Ab8D96ebE890859600819</li><li>投毒地址：0xBaFF2F13638C04B10F8119760B2D2aE86b08f8b5</li><li>玩家期望中的地址：0xbaf4b1aF7E3B560d937DA0458514552B6495F8b5</li></ul>

某用户遭遇首尾字符相似地址“投毒”，损失近5000万USDT

PANews reported on December 20th that Yu Xian, founder of SlowMist, tweeted that a user suffered a loss of nearly 50 million USDT due to a malicious address with identical first and last characters. User @web3_antivirus stated that the user first sent a small test transaction to the correct address. Minutes later, $50 million was sent to a malicious address copied from the transaction history (the first three characters and last four characters were identical).
Player address: 0xcB80784ef74C98A89b6Ab8D96ebE890859600819
- Poisoning address: 0xBaFF2F13638C04B10F8119760B2D2aE86b08f8b5
- The address players expect: 0xbaf4b1aF7E3B560d937DA0458514552B6495F8b5

<p>PANews reported on December 20th that Yu Xian, founder of SlowMist, tweeted that a user suffered a loss of nearly 50 million USDT due to a malicious address with identical first and last characters. User @web3_antivirus stated that the user first sent a small test transaction to the correct address. Minutes later, $50 million was sent to a malicious address copied from the transaction history (the first three characters and last four characters were identical).</p><ul><li> Player address: 0xcB80784ef74C98A89b6Ab8D96ebE890859600819</li><li> Poisoning address: 0xBaFF2F13638C04B10F8119760B2D2aE86b08f8b5</li><li> The address expected by the player: 0xbaf4b1aF7E3B560d937DA0458514552B6495F8b5</li></ul>

A user was targeted by an address with similar first and last characters, resulting in a loss of nearly 50 million USDT.

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