There is something shady going on on the network

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There is something shady going on on the network

I've made a transaction, donating some ETH, i receive instantly back 0**.**0000000001 ETH from an address that i tough was the sender. The address begins and end with the same characters than my sender.

I checked if it was a shady NFT or something going on, but nothing.

I think they are trying to poison the address book of some users in hope we copy/paste the wrong address.

And i'm not the only one affected. (i will not provide my transaction for detailing how it works)

https://etherscan.io/address/0x1300035209003381aa3d5dc414a593d9f64a5d13

You can look at this address, it is currently spamming the network. It will fund an address similar than one that there is on the network, like this one for instance : https://etherscan.io/address/0xf493b435b82c3561b6bc6b117131e467af8d8061

Which will send 0**.**0000000001 ETH to the victim, for this example, this one : https://etherscan.io/address/0x50d0a988eb8511ab0b52f184c02cb89013e238b4
This is the victim address that made the transaction to a similar address, the real one being this one : https://etherscan.io/address/0xf49d839e4da75e8ea4535977759722b3f1a88061

The poison address start with 0xf49 and end with 8061 which depending on the software may result on the address not being display entirely (0xf49…8061) or would be still be displayed but some beginner or even some senior users can do a mistake and only check the beginning and the end.

I find this very troublesome and must be solved ASAP. Displaying a BIC number (client side solution) like it is done in banking could help preventing this by displaying 3-4 numbers made from the hash of the address to display alongside the address, making the task of having an address that start and end similarly not enough as you will also need 999-9 other similar address for each address to get all the checksums. Making the task much complicated but still not impossible.

We need a way to tell easily if we send money to the same address than before. Not everyone is as paranoid as me and checking the entire address even if it is a known address, what happens if i'm sick or tired and miss a check ?
We could generate a color of a symbol or something, i don't know but it should not be that easy to scam people.

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