Quote from: Findingnemo on October 13, 2023, 05:11:35 PM

Quote from: CryptoGirl_200x on October 10, 2023, 06:31:10 PM

the amount of cryptocurrency they send to their potential victims is usually so small that sometimes, its hard to notice, but the main goal or purpose of the scammer sending this is to try to trick as many that will notice the transaction, into revealing their private keys, or trick them into visiting a malicious website.

The actual reason for the dusting attack is a threat to the address owner's privacy and FYI receiving some coins whether it dust amount of huge amount has no security concerns so you do not need to worry about the remaining coins in the address or wallet. But if you don't want to compromise privacy then you should freeze that particular UTXO or if the address has no other transactions then freezing the entire address is more than enough so the scammer will never be able to link the funds to any of your addresses.

Address poisoning has been one attack that has led me to heavy loss of coins before, it happened some time ago when I had no knowledge and information about the activities of these scammers, and what happened was that my address was replaced with a scammer address which created similar and familiar to my save address, and when I just copied the address and send my coins to that address without checking, and that lead to my coins being sent to a scammer wallet instead of my own wallet, but since then, I have learned my lesson and I can never fall victim to such attack again.