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 <p><span style="font-weight: 400">According to CZ, the perpetrator was stopped before he could siphon up to $20 million from the leading cryptocurrency exchange. These scammers have adopted a new method of falsifying details in a way that is very convincing to unsuspecting customers.</span></p>  
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 <p><span style="font-weight: 400">Before now, one of the strategies used by crypto traders to verify any wallet address before initiating a transfer is by confirming that the starting and ending letters of their wallet addresses are the same.&nbsp;</span></p> 
 <p><span style="font-weight: 400">Most of the time, the middle part of the addresses are hidden and replaced with “…” to make the UI look better. However, CZ explained that hackers now generate wallet addresses in such a way that the same starting and ending letters are the same.</span></p> 
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  <p>The scammers are so good now they generate addresses with the same starting and ending letters, which is what most people check… https://t.co/DFpdX8aNay</p> 
  <p>— CZ 🔶 <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="Binance" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/binance.html">Binance</a> (@cz_<a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="Binance" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/binance.html">Binance</a>) August 2, 2023</p> 
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 <p><span style="font-weight: 400">Thereafter, “the scammer then use this address to send you dust transactions so that the address is shown in your wallet. Now, if you want to send to the legitimate address, you might just pick one previous transactions in your wallet and copy the address. You might just copy the wrong one,” the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="Binance" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/binance.html">Binance</a> CEO wrote in a Twitter post.</span></p> 
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 <p><span style="font-weight: 400">In the case of the crypto trader that was almost a victim of this scam yesterday, he only noticed the irregularities right after he had initiated the transction.&nbsp;</span></p> 
 <p><span style="font-weight: 400"><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="Binance" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/binance.html">Binance</a> saved the day by swiftly requesting the Tether (USDT) to be frozen before the transaction was completed. Markedly, this does not imply that the funds will be handed right back to this crypto trader in question but it would not be released to the scammers either.</span></p> 
 <p><span style="font-weight: 400">To reclaim his USDT, the trader will be required to fill a couple of documents including a police report then wait for all due diligence to be conducted. In response to the long tweet posted by CZ, one crypto Twitter users </span><span style="font-weight: 400">mentioned</span><span style="font-weight: 400"> that rather than check just the starting and ending letters, he cross-checks the first three and the last three letters also. Zhao confirmed that doesn’t work any longer.</span></p> 
 <p><span style="font-weight: 400">Such wallet breach are becoming more rampant in the crypto ecosystem. In June, Atomic Wallet </span><span style="font-weight: 400">warned</span><span style="font-weight: 400"> users of a compromise on some of its wallets as this address assault appears to be a trend now.</span></p> 
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