An address poisoning scam resulted in one victim losing $599,000 USDT.

PANews February 19 News, according to Cointelegraph citing @web3_antivirus reports, a address poisoning scam resulted in a victim losing $599,000 USDT. The victim sent funds to a fake address copied from transaction records. The attacker embedded this fake address through a small transfer, mixing it with legitimate transaction records. The victim then copied the address and sent the funds to the attacker.

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