The idea is to replace a recent transaction with another transaction from a similar looking address. Then when you carelessly send to your recent addresses thinking you’re replicating a transaction you send to a scammer.
In 2024 someone lost 71M in wBTC to address poisoning. https://www.theblock.co/post/292472/victim-loses-over-71-million-worth-of-wbtc-in-purported-address-poisoning-attack
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