Scam alert: Metamask warns crypto users about address poisoningWhile 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.
I will quote the important part of the article and will leave the link below.
While the attempt would not give the hackers access to user wallets, people who may have gotten into the habit of copying their wallet address from the transaction history before sending digital asset balances could potentially send their funds to copycat addresses.
Because of this, the wallet provider warned users always to be careful and double-check their transactions before sending their balances. The firm highlighted that it would be best to check every single character of the wallet address to make sure that the funds will be sent to the correct wallet.
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Scam alert: MetaMask warns crypto users about address poisoning The target is specific to people who are copying their address on their transaction history, I wonder what the percentage of people who are doing this, could be big numbers because they create specific targets I haven't done this on all my transactions I have a compilation of my wallets and I always see to it that I memorize at least the first three characters some characters in the middle and last three characters and check it on explorers especially if I'm moving big amount, took me at least 2 minutes but it's part of the precautions.