Importing the mnemonic in the 'correct' order leads to the phishing scam wallet associated with Facebook.
Using the mnemonic in the order 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 results in that scam/phishing wallet.
What's the purpose to have your whole post in bold face? (Removed for sanity)
I don't care about Facebook and won't look or search there. Are the recovery words of what you label as phishing scam wallet public?
If yes, then you can disclose them here. It's just that I don't believe you. You know the drill: don't trust, verify!
However, using the mnemonic in the order 1, 7, 2, 8, 3, 9, 4, 10, 5, 11, 6, 12, I tested and found a third-party Bitcoin wallet with actual transaction records.
This is your claim and so far we can't prove your claim. I say again, I don't believe you, because first, it's, as you said, highly unlikely that the different word order produces a valid BIP39 word sequence with proper checksum. Second, why would someone else have funded addresses even partially equal to such an invalid BIP39 wallet?
I can confirm what nc50lc said, Electrum clearly warns about an invalid checksum when you change the order of a given valid BIP39 recovery word sequence but still lets you derive a wallet from the invalid sequence.
In other words, it was an extremely, extremely low-probability, accidental discovery.
Yadda, yadda, ... show proof or it didn't happen!
In other words, it was an extremely, extremely low-probability, accidental discovery.
The chances of collision is so low that it is impossible only
if you created the seed phrase yourself using a strong random number generator. But this is not the case here. You say you have found these words on the internet (on Facebook) and you claim it is a scam attempt.
The chances of it is actually very high to see the words used in the same order they were posted to generate a wallet with transaction history (the "scammer" did that intentionally).
I have discussed all the intricate details with both Google Gemini and Grok, and they both found it to be incredible/unbelievable/impossible!!"
Because that will never likely happen unless there's a collision with the resulting binary seed from the jumbled and properly arranged mnemonic.
It's as if both you and 'Jack' have exactly the same 12 words in your mnemonic phrases, but just in a different order.
The mnemonic order 123456789101112 opens your private key.
Have you actually tested to create the wallet with the correct order of words and checked the addresses if they matched?
Or just assumed that it's the same wallet because it has transaction history?
Are you using a legit version of Electrum? With verified signatures from its developers.