A major asset theft was recorded on the blockchain through manipulation of transaction history. As the Web3 Antivirus team reports, the investor sent 386,300 $USDT to an address that visually was almost indistinguishable from the original. The scammers have already begun distributing the stolen funds through decentralized protocols and anonymizers.

**The "Poisoning" Mechanism**
The victim became the target of an attack known as "address poisoning."
"The essence of the method is simple: the scammer inserts into the user's wallet history an address that has the same first and last characters as the victim's real contact. Users often only check the beginning and end of the string, copying details from the history of recent transactions," — experts explained.