**[Binance Warns of "Address Poisoning" Scam: Funds Can Be Stolen Without Hacking Techniques]** According to a report by U.Today on September 26, as cited by Jinse Finance, Binance issued a statement explaining the "address poisoning" scam, emphasizing that not all crypto scams rely on hacking. Attackers first target wallets with frequent transaction activity, then generate a wallet address with similar starting and ending characters to the target's commonly used address. They proceed to send small transactions (usually zero or dust amounts) from the fake address to the target wallet, causing it to appear in the transaction history. If the target later makes a transfer and mistakenly copies the poisoned address from the history, the funds will be sent to the attacker. Since blockchain transactions are irreversible, the transferred funds may not be recoverable. This method has been reported on chains like Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain, which use long hexadecimal addresses. Binance advises users to only transfer funds to fully verified addresses, utilize address book whitelists, and conduct small test transactions first.