I've never understood why we tell newbies, or anyone else for that matter, to only check a few characters of an address. Checking a few characters is not a foolproof way to protect against clipboard malware now, and it will become even less reliable as time goes on, malware becomes more complex, and vanity address generators becomes more efficient.
We tell people to spend hours learning how to verify software, read user guides, familiarize themselves with every aspect of bitcoin. We tell people to spend their money on hardware wallets. And then we tell them to save a few seconds by not checking the full address?
Here is what I do every time I make a transaction. It takes less than 10 seconds:
Any time I am sending coins from any wallet I physically place the address I know is correct directly from the source, right next to the address I have entered to send to. That usually means either holding my hardware wallet or phone up next to my computer screen, or resizing two windows on my phone or computer to put the two address physically right next to each other. Once you have two addresses which are less than inch apart, its very easy to check the entire address and not just a few characters at the start or end.