In addition, the company suggested that people refrain from copying wallet addresses from their transaction logs and instead utilize their address book when transferring digital assets.
According to the MetaMask team, a scam that tries to exploit user carelessness with crypto wallet addresses has been growing.
They called it an “address poisoning scam” where attackers send tokens of zero value to wallet addresses. The scammers create these addresses from vanity address generators, and they try to match the first and last characters of the user’s wallet address.
This could lead unsuspecting people to direct their funds to a fraudulent address. This would not give the hackers access to the wallet, but people who typically copy the address from the transaction history before sending digital assets could become victims.
MetaMask advised users to double-check the accuracy of their transactions before sending and to check each character of the address. They also suggested that users stop copying wallet addresses from the transaction history and use their address book instead.