Is it possible to pay to a specific miner?

https://etherscan.io/tx/0x768571e25376d449564792e41af726b548ce69638b2f8579304b91e9b1c5f9b1 in this failed transaction I've seen people saying it's a way of transfering money to miner from account. How is it possible to pick a spesific miner? Is it possible to do this when transfers are not failing? If so, how to prevent this?