Quick story that might save you a lot of pain.2020-2025: Grew $1k to $25k through spot trading.January 2025: Decided to withdraw for apartment down payment.Sent USDT from hot wallet to exchange.Transaction went to wrong address.Clipboard malware had been sitting on my computer, waiting.Five years of savings gone in one transaction because I didn't verify the full address after pasting.Now I trade on demo accounts, still love analyzing markets, but learned an expensive lesson.Protect yourself: Verify EVERY character of pasted addresses Use hardware wallets for large amounts Send test transactions first Run regular security scans Consider a dedicated device for cryptoDon't trust. Verify.
>>61845840>Consider a dedicated device for cryptoI did this recently, reformatted an old laptop and installed Linux on it, only use it for my hardware wallet.Sorry for the loss m8, at least 25k isn't rope level and you'll recover quick.
>>61845840should have used Linux, chuddy
Thanks for the reminder OP. Always good to remember how easily it is to fuck up. I use a Mac for the reason that it feels a little bit more secure. And I’m less likely to download some shady program.
>>61845840>Verify EVERY character of pasted addressesThis might seem silly, but you have to do it because nowadays the scammer makes an eth wallet with nearly the same exact address as your wallet (same first and last 4 characters) and dusts you with 0.00000001 ETH right after you make a transaction just so his wallet remains as the last transaction so you accidentally copy his wallet address and send your money to that dummy wallet.
>>61845881Just use address books nigga sheeeeiitt
>>61845860>>61845863this, debian is probably the easiest distro that natively supports full disk encryption, which makes the laptop uncrackable even if stolen.
>>61845860Thanks m8!
>>61845863Well, i didnt expect that :(
>>61845980>tHe fUTRuRE Fo MoEnYe!11!!!1kek, you coin faggots always make me laugh
>>61845840>op how did you manage to get clipboard malware onto the machine in the first place. Basic common sense practices should be enough to avoid this. I dunno maybe you had bad luck.
>>61845840Just hold on an exchange. :^)Pretty good odds of it not going tits up while you're using it if it's a major one. Coinbase, Binance, Kraken... still kickin' after all these years and controversies.
>>61845840This is the future of finance buddy
>>61845840>>61845980>>61845967on the bright side Mossad probably has your money now
This is why normies will NEVER adopt crypto
>>61846094just as risky as wires desucompany I worked for lost $400k to wire fraud after they fired medumb niggers shouldn't have fired me, because retarded boomers that cannot even open a pdf are 10x more likely to fall for a wire scam
>namefag>fudI call bullshit, where did you get the virus? You did no scans? No test runs? Never moved crypto til the final send? It magically spoofed your address without changing first and last 5 digits? Fake and gay.
>>61845881You're genuinely a retard if you fall for this shit, bots have been dusting wallets NFTs and frozen unmovable shitcoins for years now, if youre still using your tx history to transfer funds you deserve to get drained by ranjesh
>>61845840the fact you didn't send a single test transaction before moving everything you got for the first time tells me you are a larping faggot.But it's not an abbhorent thread, since you reminded newfags (there aren't any this cycle, i know) the basics of security.
>>61845840This post written by AI(Trademark Logo)
>>61846201>>61846193>>61846103even if its fake or FUD it is good to know that this type of scam does exist and to keep your opsec in check
>>61846098There’s alway one crypto baggy who leaps forward to defend this mangled knot of trustless crap when you point out the ultimate weakness. It’s fucking baffling to 99% of humanity. And they think they can just overcome that 9 billion mile high hurdle. If you actually explained to a normie. Yeah… one wrong click of a keyboard and your entire life’s saving can disappear. There would be blood on the streets.Now watch this retarded baggy try to mount a second defence.
>>61846217Yes I am grateful for my daily dose of fear, uncertainty and doubt, it's why I keep returning to biz/
post the transaction larptard
This never happened.
>>61846222>this doesn't apply for mobile apps
>>61845840Let me guess, windows huh?
>>61846103>It magically spoofed your address without changing first and last 5 digits?Tbf this kind of clipboard malware pre-generates a vast quantity of public addresses and usually can hot swap in an address with identical first 4 and last 4. Especially if it has had 5 years to study your active addresses, plenty of time generate a gazillion dummy wallets that look almost identical.
>>61846876>you're a bullshitter, and so is op
>>61846222It is what it is. If you want to be your own bank, you're going to have to be careful. Still extremely rare, just have good opsec and take it seriously.
