Scam alert: Metamask warns crypto users about address poisoning
While exploring the Binance news tab I found this article which highlights how a hacker is stealing the crypto assets by switching the address by matching the characters we normally use to send funds so beware of copying and pasting the recipient address no matter what kind of wallet your using and crosscheck all the characters not prefix and random alone.
Thanks for the warning OP. I just read through the article and i have to say, that i am not sure though how high the success rate of those hacking attempt is. I would guess that it is extremely low, which is a very good thing of course. So the scammer sends you a worthless token from an adress that is identical to yours on the first and also on the last number but not in between. That is all.
This means you have to make a few big mistakes at the same time in order to send the scammer your money. First of all you have to copy the address you want to sent to from a completely different location within metamask than you usually do and secondly you have to be completely blind at the same time to not see that the address is not the same as usual.