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I received 3 paypal payments over night, for a total of $780, and an email stating a person sent them on accident and please return the money to this third party payapal account.. be aware as you would be responsible for returning the first three payments when they say fraud!
I think I was hit with that earlier in the year, but they wrongly assumed I checked that email I guess, because had no clue the context, I just knew I hadn't sold anything with paypal. Good to knowQuote:
Originally Posted by allfreechips
There's a crypto fraud I embarrassingly fell for recently, affecting Solana wallets. The way it works is when you withdraw(say to an exchange from your desktop wallet), instantly after you'll receive a dust transaction of like +0.000001 SOL - which I thought was like excess fee returned. The trick is, it's a near duplicate address of your usual withdrawal address, with the starting with the same 4 first digits, and ending with the same 4 last digits. So when you go back to your wallet to make another withdrawal (especially in my wallet, where it's 1 click to copy an address, and I just remember what the address begins and starts with, so will accidently clicked the recent one that look the same), you accidently send to the duplicate address(which I just wrongly assumed was some like gas fee return or something, like thought must all be the same address). Apparently, it's called "poisoning", and happens a lot on Solana, to confuse people with near duplicate wallet addresses so they accidently send to the wrong one. Only lost like $70 from it, but really was annoying I fell for it. Got to make sure to check the middle digits of the send address.
These kinds of scams seem to come in waves. A friend lost several thousand dollars to something like this a few years ago, and there was no way to get the money back. As a general rule, whenever I receive a payment I wait for the sender to reach out, and if there’s any issue, I prefer they request a refund through the platform. At the end of the day, even if it turns out to be an honest mistake, it’s still their responsibility, and I have the right to take precautions.