Are you sure you're not sending cryptocurrency to scammers yourself?
A couple of days ago, I thought I was sure .
I need to buy tickets in the morning.
Copying my binance address to put funds there to use p2p :
I go into my trust wallet,
I paste the address,
check the first and last characters of my frequently used address,
I send a trial deposit of 6 dollars,
(I decided to make a trial payment, because the tron network was stopped earlier, I want to see if it works)
a few minutes later 6 bucks arrives at my binance,
i click the insert button in trust wallet again with the same address,
and then I send 2,000,
Money does not come to binance.
I am writing to Binance support.
Support finds the payment of 6 dollars, but does not see 2000,
here i wake up without coffees.
I go to tronscan check both transactions and see that I sent to the same address
I send these transactions to binance and they tell me it's not my binance address at all.
And that I sent both transactions to the wrong address.
I wonder if I'm fucked up.
I go to my binance wallet again and start comparing symbol by symbol.
I find that these addresses have the same beginning and end ,
but completely different middles.
How could I have copied in the application binance like his address, but not mine?
And then the next question: HOW DOES THE TEST PAYMENT OF $6 CURRENT BE CALLED?
Binance writes that $6 was credited from a third wallet altogether.
I'm like WHAT?
There is someone in this world who took and switched my wallet address ,
and this creature or artificial intelligence
knows that the $6 payment was a test payment and will be followed by a larger one,
so it sends me six bucks from a third wallet.
And quietly accepts my $2,000 payment.
Apparently, too smart for a bot.
All the correspondence with binance ends with me saying it's my own fault
for sending the money to the wrong address and that I should be more careful next time.
Aliluya…
I dive deeper into Sherlock Holmes and go to study the transactions in TRON,
find the final address where my 2,000 went.
TX6cyeTGkn5BLuZnvmkYuAnrg9AK9PLaTA,
Let's call this address "The Robber" for short.
I look from what addresses came more recharge to the address of the Grabber
And let's call the addresses EXECUTIVE.
The EXECUTIVE address receives funds from the wallets of VICTIMS,
those are the ones on my team.
Looking through the transactions of the wallets of VICTIMS , I find that before they sent money to the EXECUTIVE, they made regular payments to the address, similar to the address of the EXECUTIVE.
So, it's like me, often sending my funds from my wallet to the exchange, using the same TRONOV address.
They are also slipped a native address for the eyes .
And they, just like me, successfully sent their funds to the robber
At this moment, only this purse has already robbed 24 000 dollars and I assume that this robber has a lot of similar wallets.
After that, I'm stoked to burst into the Binance support chat room...
and I lay out my investigations.
This time, support didn't just advise me to be more careful, but informed me that they knew about a virus that was uploaded to my phone and impudently changed all my addresses to their own, and very similar to what I didn't suspect.
They advise me to:
1. move all my wallets and exchanges from android to iphone
2. simultaneously activate antivirus application on my android.
Before this incident, I was convinced that I should have a separate phone for all crypto payments and I didn't know that androids could be so vulnerable.
If I had known this before, I wouldn't have been friends with samsung anymore, much less used android as a secondary phone for my payments.
Now, devoted android lovers should check every character of the recipient's address 38-39 times for the rest of their lives to make sure it is the very address and you have not accidentally put the robber's address in, like I did.
After this experience and communication with trust wallet and binance I'm coming to conclusion, that these big CRYPTO companies don't know philosophy of Satoshi, bitcoin's creator at all.
It's hard to believe in 2023, but genius bitcoin was once very vulnerable.
What made bitcoin as strong and confident as we know it today?
Bitcoin owes its strength to Satoshi himself and all of his helpers who lived with the idea of making this product perfect AT LEAST.
Read the history of Bitcoin's creation, where you will learn that many people helped Satoshi to fix all the weak links and hacker attacks for one common idea:
There must be a secure monetary system in our world, independent of governments .
Today's crypto industry is the end product of Satoshi.
Unfortunately, in our crypto industry, there is no longer any concept of value in the WHOLE world.
There is only - "we are saddened by your loss, be more careful next time, and unfortunately we can't help you."
Would Bitcoin exist now if once Satoshi had also responded to everyone,
who pointed out bugs and bugs in the product?
I am sure we are ALL in this together either to create and work for improvement of blockchain industry,
or binance needs to change its name to MORAL SUPPORT service ,
and TRUST WALLET - SOMETIMES TRUST
