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An 11-year-old Ethereum wallet moved $4.6 million and dodged a scam set up in minutes
一枚沉睡11年的以太坊钱包转出460万美元，躲过几分钟内设下的骗局
The 2015 Ethereum wallet owner still sent funds correctly despite bots planting lookalike addresses, so long-idle holders must verify destinations rather than assume quiet addresses stay unnoticed.
Judgment
Long-idle holders waking a 2015-era wallet should decide, before the first outgoing transfer, whether to send from a pre-verified address book instead of copying from transaction history — the $4.6 million move shows the destination is the one point the owner actually controls.
Basis
CoinDesk reports that bots detected the wallet — which dates to Ethereum's 2015 launch — the moment it stirred, and planted lookalike addresses in its history within minutes. The mechanism is address poisoning: an attacker pushes a small transfer from an address whose leading and trailing characters match one the target has used, so the fake entry sits in the history and can be pasted in place of the real one. Here it failed; the owner sent the $4.6 million to the correct destination anyway. The instructive figure is timing rather than size: eleven years of dormancy bought no obscurity at all, since the watch started the instant the wallet moved.
- 2015 wallet stirsin minutes
- Bots spot itpoison history
- Lookalikes plantedcopy risk
- Owner sends $4.6Mverified
- Correct destination
Unclear The source does not say how the owner verified the destination — address book, hardware-wallet screen, or manual character-by-character check — nor whether the planted lookalikes ever received funds.
Next Check the lookalike addresses on-chain for any inbound transfer after the move; a single hit would show another dormant holder copied from history instead of verifying.