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User lost $68 million in cryptocurrency due to carelessness Experts from the Cyvers service were the first to discover this, and then it was confirmed by cryptodetective ZachXBT, well-known in the crypto community Someone sent 1155 WBTC (Wrapped Bitcoin) worth more than $68 million to scammers, becoming a victim of a spam attack Its essence is that small or zero amounts of cryptocurrency are sent to the victim’s wallet from addresses that are just a few characters different from the address to which the victim regularly makes transfers Attackers, using special software, generate a crypto wallet with an address whose set of characters at the beginning and end is identical to the set of characters in the victim’s trusted address, to which they often send cryptocurrency. The essence of the attack is that, through carelessness, the victim copies the address from which the transfer from the attackers came and uses it to send funds