Just comes to show how careless people are in general. It only takes like what? less than 5 seconds to double check the address you're sending the funds to? But yet people don't do it. It's so mind boggling how lazy and careless people are knowing that you can never do chargebacks with bitcoin.
Isn't it enough to check just the fist 4-5 and last 4-5 characters? This is what I do every time, if the first and last match I don't think I'm in danger. If they manage to generate address similar to the address you are paying to with the first few characters, checking the last ones should make it super save, am I wrong?
It should suffice. This is what I do too. It's enough unless for some ultimately very unlucky reason the address you're sending the funds to and the hacker's receiving address has the same first and last 5 characters.