The main or major reason why scammers engage in p2p dusting attack is for two reasons..
- To get their victims to reveal their private key or seed phrase through visiting a clone fake site, which phishes the victim's wallets private information while the victim unsuspectingly tries to connect his or her wallet to the site.
- To get the victims to visit a malicious website where they can try to trick the victim into clicking links that could download software that is infected with malware into the victims computer.
The two mentioned reason both lead to one purpose, and that is to steal the victims cryptocurrencies, and maybe other valuable information that could be stored on the victims computer that the scammer have infected.
This is very possible. But another thing that is possible is to try to trace the person to his real identity. Maybe the victim will create an ad on a decentralized exchange or sell the coin to the bad actor in a way that the victim real name can be known while the bad actor is sending money to his bank account. If it is bitcoin, this is known as dust attack. All you need to do is to use coin control to freeze the coin, or move you cons or of the wallet with coin control.
If you are dealing with altcoins like USDT, you may think that it is P2P attack, but it may not be it. Even if you send to your exchange account or send from your exchange account, you may notice dust amount like 0.000005 USDT sent to your noncustodial wallet by bad actors with an address similar to your exchange account address. They want you to think that it is your exchange account address or an address that belongs to you so that if you want to send altcoin next time, you can mistakenly copy the bad actor address because it is similar to yours.