Topic: Have you ever been dusted!! Don't panic - page 2. (Read 315 times)
Dust is money too (depending on tx fees). Dust me al you want, I like free money.
This is not the first time am hearing about dusting attack I have read about it from a thread created by fillippone Dust Attack, what it is, why it is dangerous and how to prevent falling to it I learn about how it works and how to control not endangering one’s wallet after the attack I think you guys should also take a look at that thread, the Op you just made mention of the dust attack capability and not how to prevent it which adding that could have help users a lot.
It is little bit different on Bitcoin blockchain and altcoin blockchains but scammers can do it on both. With Bitcoin, we usually call it as dust attack and with altcoins, we often call it as Address Poisoning Scam.What are Address Poisoning Scams?
Address Poisoning Scam.
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
This is not the first time am hearing about dusting attack I have read about it from a thread created by fillippone Dust Attack, what it is, why it is dangerous and how to prevent falling to it I learn about how it works and how to control not endangering one’s wallet after the attack I think you guys should also take a look at that thread, the Op you just made mention of the dust attack capability and not how to prevent it which adding that could have help users a lot.
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.
The best is to just use coin control to freeze the dust coin.
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.
👉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.
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