Copy-Pasting Crypto Wallet Addresses No Longer 100% Safe: MetaMask Warns
A new wallet address fraud that targets careless copy pasters is becoming rampant, according to MetaMask. In a series of tweets yesterday, the MetaMask team took steps to warn unsuspecting users of a growing type of scam called “address poisoning.” Scammers extract the first and last four alpha-numerical combinations in a wallet address and use…