Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao urged crypto wallets to detect and block address-poisoning scams automatically. He proposed industry-wide blacklists and UI filtering after an investor mistakenly sent $50 million in USDT to a spoofed address last week.
In a post titled “Let’s Eradicate the Poison Scams,” Zhao said wallets should query known “poison addresses,” warn or block users, and hide zero-value spam that clutters histories. He added that Binance Wallet already performs such checks.
What’s Behind the Address Poisoning Scams
A “poison wallet,” or address poisoning scam, is a crypto trick where attackers send tiny amounts of crypto (dust) from a fake address that looks like a frequent contact’s address to your wallet, hoping you’ll copy the fake one later and send funds to them instead of the real person. It works by exploiting user habits, making you accidentally send crypto to the scammer’s address, which is just one character diffe
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