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 <li>Changpeng Zhao warned about a new scam that took place, which could have created a loss of $20 million.</li> 
 <li>Zhao mentioned that the scammers were able to generate addresses with the same starting and ending letters of the wallet address.</li> 
 <li>It was noticed that the reason why users would fall for these scams is because they would ignore checking the middle part of the wallet address.</li> 
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After another close-call incident, it has been observed that bad actors, once again, found a new way to scam users. After arriving at the crime scene, the <a href="https://coinedition.com/tag/changpeng-Zhao/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">CEO of Binance Changpeng Zhao</a> swiftly rushed to Twitter and warned the crypto community yesterday about one such scam, which could have created a loss of $20 million. 
However, in this phishing attack scenario, it was reported that the operator, luckily, managed to notice the error and make the right decision before the funds could have been lost. 
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 I want to share this (luckily) unsuccessful, but very clever and close scam incident from yesterday <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f447.png" alt="👇" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;">. Saved $20m. Hope it may also save you one day. The scammers are so good now they generate addresses with the same starting and ending letters, which is what most people check… <a href="https://t.co/DFpdX8aNay" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://t.…</a> 
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Scammer Alert: New Sneak Attack Could Be Waiting In Your Wallet Address

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