Topic: Have you ever been dusted!! Don't panic (Read 314 times)

I don't know how scammers manage to know which wallet has some funds in it to target, from what I heard they send lots of micro transactions to multiple addresses, but how do they get this addresses, are they guessed or is they a way they find them.

All you have to do is send the dust to the Genesis block address, something like 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa which will never move their coins or have outgoing transactions, so the attackers can have run watching a rock just sitting there.

Sure, it will cost a few sats in fees if you want the thing to be actually confirmed, but it's worth getting rid of such parasites from your wallet.

Lol its funny how scammers are very innovative these days, who have heard about dusting, where a scammers sends tiny bits of crypto to different wallet address. Guess what I just received the smallest sol ever, three times in a role. In case your having same experience don't panic your wallet isn't hacked or anything its just a scammer trying to get to know you. If you feel unsafe about this I'll just explain what they try to achieve by this and how you can be safe.

👉dusting attacks happen when small very negligible amont of crypto is sent to multiple addresses on a network. In case it happens to you dont panic its not such a big deal but you must understand why they do this in other not to further fall a victim cause its a means to an end and they usually use crypto with very low fees like sol, I've experienced it mostly on sol about four times now.

From my research I've found out that this is why they dust
👉to find out who own the wallet don't know how they do this tho
👉to track your transaction: this is possible since transaction are recorded on a ledger and they just need to track the dusted funds as its been moved with other funds


👉to find out active wallets

How to be safe
👉 something this dusted fund can come with a link in their description. So you would be a fool to click, your 3 feet from falling into their trap.
👉adopt usage of wallet that prioritize privacy and try not to spend that dusted fund, since they are majorly trying to get information through tracking your transaction and don't bother moving funds to a new wallet they can still track that except new wallet has more privacy.

This is just one way that scammers use to compromise privacy But it's not such a big deal if you know wat it is and know not to panic or fall for any Link trick they mostly add to the transaction description.

Stay safe.

I have received dust many times in the last years, mainly in addresses with positive balance (I don't check the empty ones often, so I don't know whether I receive something there). As far as I'm aware, that's not a big issue since there is no need to send dust in order to track the transactions from or to that address since the blockchain is public.

IMO, the moral should be keep things tidy, the same if you received dust or not. Although a single point of failure is enough to break your privacy, the more mistakes you make the more chances of being tracked and, eventually, attacked. So it is a good idea to create throw-away addresses while being aware that every time you consolidate you may be sharing too much info.

Many times or almost all the time. Some sending soam tokens or coins that even have value which I believe is just a bait for you to use it or sell it but its only a way to lure you to a potential hack. There are different kind of dusting mostly are soam tokens and sometime small amount of eth or fake nft or tokens that integrated on real or original projects which you could foreseen as real. So be careful best move is to avoid them or ignore when you are using such as etherscan or depends on the network you used.

It is only realistic to freeze fund in an address that has small bitcoin in value, our bitcoins and dusts we received.

If that address has big value, freeze all fund in that address is not good choice.

I'm using Electrum and there's a simple solution - click "freeze funds" on the address that received dust (it has no balance other than the dust).The whole point of dusting is sending it to empty addresses with known identity, hoping that the owner will make new transactions with that address and link it to other addresses. It makes no sense to send dust to addresses with balance because they will be used at some point.

👉 something this dusted fund can come with a link in their description. So you would be a fool to click, your 3 feet from falling into their trap.
👉adopt usage of wallet that prioritize privacy and try not to spend that dusted fund, since they are majorly trying to get information through tracking your transaction and don't bother moving funds to a new wallet they can still track that except new wallet has more privacy.

The solution to this is Do Nothing.

All you have to do is send the dust to the Genesis block address, something like 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa which will never move their coins or have outgoing transactions, so the attackers can have run watching a rock just sitting there.

Sure, it will cost a few sats in fees if you want the thing to be actually confirmed, but it's worth getting rid of such parasites from your wallet.

If you want to explain about dust attack, you should know that you need to explain about coin control. You only included in your post that the dust coin should not be spent. There are just few wallets that has coin control. Examples of wallet with coin control are Bitcoin Core, Electum, Sparrow, Bluewallet, Samourai and few others.

The best is to just use coin control to freeze the dust coin.

Dust is money too (depending on tx fees). Dust me al you want, I like free money.

The key to avoid these attacks are

• Have multiple wallets for different tasks and avoid using only one wallet to store your coins and interact that wallet around
• Checking carefully when you broadcast any transaction