$50M?
Man, that's that's just unbearable. That is probably a person's entire life savings! I ask is there any way this can be reversed or at least lets say can those stolen funds be frozen somehow?

This is truly the worst of the worst. I once got infected with a similar scamming method (clipboard malware), so I know a bit of how cunning this address poisoning attack can be. That scammers address had hundreds, forget hundreds, thousands of transactions involving thousands of dollars, and this was not the only address. This is exactly why I always double chcek (manually) my address many times before sending any funds, even if it's $50. One hand on my mobile and another on my pc, comparing with the original and the one I'm about to send. It's always better to be late than sorry later.

I think if I had such amount of bitcoin I would not be comfortable to Leave it on a wallet created by ledger due to their reputation, I will definitely be looking for an open source airgapped hardware wallet. Ledger isn’t a hardware wallet to consider but that’s for another thread.

This is purely a thing of either Ignorance and nothing more. Address poisoning is long time scammers tactics which is still working perfectly now, there are many etiquettes to avoid falling victims with the non official one bee. That one should never send such a large amount out at once but should prioritize splitting it into smaller portions.

I can never forget the experience which I witnessed with my own eye that lead me to learning about clipboard virus which was how the receiving address was changed to that of the scammer ever since they I try as much as possible to manually check every wallet I want to transact with and make sure its same sometimes I prefer to use QR code to scan my wallet if I don’t consider copying and pasting it as being safe, a lot of things are happening on the internet and the scammers are not sleeping at all they are very much active to steal from us all they wait for us that one mistake.

While he did the first test of transferring first, I'd make sure another test transaction that could give me more securing thoughts that I can peacefully send that $50M. Even a couple of thousands, I'll test and make sure it first before sending. We can learn here that despite that we're aware of that technique, still the scammers have their eyes on those wallet addresses that have huge amounts. It is probably a money that he's set for life but I feel bad that these scammers are just there waiting for that opportunity. They can attain to feed their fam with stolen money.

The way the numbers of scammers are increasing every blessing day it’s very important for us to be wise  enough on what ever we come to do concern address. Because our address os combine with laters and words so we cannot cram it since it’s a long numbers and letters accept copy and paste, but the reason why it’s very important to check again when ever we past the destination address as you said earlier is because of the scammers that are doing research on how they can able to hack people wallet.

What I always I do whenever I come to send my address: I do check it multiples time by follow all the letters and words one after the other for me to make sure everything are in order.

That's not all, you can copy the address from your history in your crypto wallet and still get switched because your PC might be infected with the malware that's capable of switching address after you copy and address, it's better for PC users to take a minute and cross check the address over again before sending assets to the address.

Waw this is unbelievable but to me how do this mistake occured because their are many ways one can easily copy address without copying another or the person who copied it was drunk anyway,as you said we need to be very careful so that this same thing can't happen to anyone here to avoid regrets in future.

I don't think the scammers are the problem here where the problem is coming from is from those that have invested already because majority of them are too greedy and also they are looking for quick money  and for those that have this kind of ideology they will keep falling victim in the hands of this scammers because I don't see a reasonable person that have the right knowledge about cryptocurrency should have anything to do with quick money it takes a lot of time for you to be able to make money from cryptocurrency so what is not the rush. A lot of things can contribute to anyone losing their assets aside the issue of scams they are other hidden factors that have made people lose what they have worked for in a very long time.


Any address you are sending to it is always better to do copy and paste because address is not even something you can actually write out so the best thing is just to copy and you paste then you do confirmation of what chain you are sending to before you start sending. And all this is because everyone needs to pay attention to everything. There is no rush in this business you need to take your time to. Invest and it is also another thing to secure.

People have belive scamming to be the way. Common, scamming doesn't seem to surprise anyone anymore because there have been up and down in life, some keep moving while others retrace their steps and focus on making changes that will benefit them. We're different and everyone of us have a goal and achieving them demand us to become extremely hardworking and making sacrifices to reach the top.