Dust payments to my wallet what is he trying to do? - page 2.

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Quote from: hkoppp on October 29, 2021, 10:28:02 AM

the problem is how did he know my wallet in the first place?
it seems like if i send my coins to another wallet i would also just get few cents sent over to there aswell.

Probably the sender/attacker does not know who you are, transactions including wallet address can be seen on public e.g. blockchain explorers, if you're using an exchange or known custodial wallets, there are some tools such walletexplorer that has a list of all address on this known wallets/services not unless you're using non-custodial wallet such electrum.

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I do not know the wallet you are using, but if not Electrum, you will have to import your seed phrase on Electrum so you will be able to freeze the coin (only Electrum on computer have coin control feature, mobile Electrum does not yet have it).

Download Electrum from https://electrum.org and use this guide for signature verification.

Import the seed phrase on Electrum. Open Electrum -> Click next -> standard wallet -> I already have a seed and input your seed phrase. If it is BIP39 seed phrase, click on 'option' and check BIP39 and clcik 'next' to select your derivational path.

Code:

legacy (p2pkh) for addresses that start from 1
p2sh-segwit (p2wpkh-p2sh) for addresses that start from 3
native segwit (P2WPKH) for addresses that start from bc1

After importing your seed phrase, click on view -> show coins -> click on coin tab -> then right click and click on 'freeze coin' to freeze the coins. You can freeze as many as possible inputs that you want to freeze.

Quote from: hkoppp on October 29, 2021, 10:28:02 AM

the problem is how did he know my wallet in the first place?
it seems like if i send my coins to another wallet i would also just get few cents sent over to there aswell.

The blockchain is an open ledger, the person can start after noticing your transaction on blockchain and trying to connect addresses linked to your addresses together. But the coin is dust and worthless, you can just freeze the coin easily on electrum.

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Quote from: hkoppp on October 29, 2021, 10:28:02 AM

Quote from: cryptoaddictchie on October 29, 2021, 10:23:50 AM

Quote from: hkoppp on October 29, 2021, 10:04:34 AM

1 of my wallets storaging some coins for years back in 2018

somebody has constantly been sending 0.33 cents to me what is he trying to do?
can somebody explain if i were to move coins out will those cents he sent me affect anything or is this all tracking purposes by someone

If you thought that he is tracking you or watching you, why not use a new wallet and transfer your fund to a new one. This kind of technique dusting is usually used for monitoring of potential victim. Yes this is possibly trying to hack you or follow your assets on your wallet.

the problem is how did he know my wallet in the first place?
it seems like if i send my coins to another wallet i would also just get few cents sent over to there aswell.

It's trivial to get a list of all BTC addresses with funds in them or addresses with greater then 'x' amount in them.
After that some people send dust to those addresses so if you move it all at once they can see where it goes.
Other times they hope you look at the transaction to see a message.
Take this one:

https://mempool.space/tx/5bc44f106ae6bb52b87cdb61d8982fdf9076a29e952a49d4c86217483aba21c2
dust to 389 addresses but the beginning transactions have a web site. letsfullofsea . topic
No idea what is there and not going to check, but I bet some of those 380+ people did.

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Quote from: cryptoaddictchie on October 29, 2021, 10:23:50 AM

Quote from: hkoppp on October 29, 2021, 10:04:34 AM

1 of my wallets storaging some coins for years back in 2018

somebody has constantly been sending 0.33 cents to me what is he trying to do?
can somebody explain if i were to move coins out will those cents he sent me affect anything or is this all tracking purposes by someone

If you thought that he is tracking you or watching you, why not use a new wallet and transfer your fund to a new one. This kind of technique dusting is usually used for monitoring of potential victim. Yes this is possibly trying to hack you or follow your assets on your wallet.

the problem is how did he know my wallet in the first place?
it seems like if i send my coins to another wallet i would also just get few cents sent over to there aswell.

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Quote from: hkoppp on October 29, 2021, 10:04:34 AM

1 of my wallets storaging some coins for years back in 2018

somebody has constantly been sending 0.33 cents to me what is he trying to do?
can somebody explain if i were to move coins out will those cents he sent me affect anything or is this all tracking purposes by someone

If you thought that he is tracking you or watching you, why not use a new wallet and transfer your fund to a new one. This kind of technique dusting is usually used for monitoring of potential victim. Yes this is possibly trying to hack you or follow your assets on your wallet.

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It's mostly used for tracking purposes. You can obviously do a bit of coin control (if you own your keys) and stop those outputs being spent with the rest (clients like electrum also let you freeze those received coins so you can send them separately).

There's a chance it could also be used to advertise something by getting you to search for the address but I don't think that's been the main purpose of this sort of attack before.

hkoppp

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1 of my wallets storaging some coins for years back in 2018

somebody has constantly been sending 0.33 cents to me what is he trying to do?
can somebody explain if i were to move coins out will those cents he sent me affect anything or is this all tracking purposes by someone

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