Trust Wallet has launched a new Address Poisoning Protection feature to help users avoid one of the fastest-growing crypto wallet scams. In an announcement on March 10, Trust Wallet stated it was releasing a new feature called “Address Poisoning Protection.”
This is to help protect users against one of the rapidly growing types of crypto wallet scams. According to Trust Wallet, the new feature will allow users to detect suspicious wallet addresses before they mistakenly send their funds to the wrong wallet.
Initially, the new feature will be released through Trust Wallet’s mobile app on 32 Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) chains and eventually on other networks.
Advanced Protection Against Malicious Transactions
Trust Wallet’s protection system will scan all incoming and outgoing transactions. Then, it will alert the user if the address they intend to send their funds to appears to be malicious.
If the user intends to send funds to a wallet that appears to be malicious, the system will stop the user from sending the funds. Trust Wallet’s advanced protection system uses aggregated data provided by HashDit and Binance Security. This helps identify suspicious addresses and prevents users from losing their money to these scams.
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Trust Wallet’s CEO, Felix Fan, describes the problem as difficult to recognize at times because scammers use very similar addresses. In addition, these addresses appear close together in long strings of wallet addresses.
Fan explained that the goal behind the new feature is to provide users with information about potential scam addresses in real-time before they confirm a transfer of funds.
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Address Poisoning Scams Have Become A Major Problem
Cryptocurrency security experts state that the number of these types of scams has risen dramatically over the past few years. This comes as the adoption rate of cryptocurrencies continues to grow.
Cyvers, a blockchain security company, stated that more than 1 million “address-poisoning preparations” are identified every day using just the Ethereum blockchain.
Additionally, Trust Wallet stated that approximately 34,000 attacks take place every hour and could be targeted toward millions of people who use cryptocurrency and related services.
These scams are successful because once you send your funds to a fraudulent wallet address, it is typically impossible to recover those funds unless the person who received the funds cooperates.
Trust Wallet’s new feature is built upon the company’s existing security framework, which includes the Security Scanner. This is a tool introduced in 2023 that analyzes transactions for phishing contracts, malicious decentralized applications, and unauthorized token approvals.
Unlike the Security Scanner, the Address Poisoning Protection feature identifies potential problems when the user is entering or copying the wallet address into the app.
Other Cryptocurrency Platforms Offer Similar Protections
Trust Wallet is one of the first platforms to offer an automated security feature to protect users from address manipulation scams. Some other platforms have offered similar protections.
For example, Ledger, a hardware wallet provider, offers a “clear signing” feature that allows users to view the entire transaction before confirming the transaction. Safe, another platform, provides address whitelisting tools that can block transfers to unknown wallets.
Trust Wallet’s automated detection of suspicious addresses is meant to assist the average user in protecting themselves from potential scams and loss of funds.
Why it Matters
Address poisoning scams are rising rapidly, making automated wallet security essential for protecting millions of crypto users.
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