← GlossaryGlossary

Address poisoning

A scam that plants look-alike addresses in your transaction history so you copy the wrong one.

In address poisoning, scammers generate an address that shares the first and last characters with one you use, then send you a tiny transfer from it so it shows up in your history.

If you later copy an address from your history, you may grab the fake one. Use an address book and check the middle characters too.