# Address Poisoning and Zero-Value Transfers: The Silent Threat Targeting Binance Users

> An investigative report on address poisoning scams targeting Binance depositors through zero-value transactions, vanity generators, and copy-paste routines.

- **Publisher**: Egy Monitor (https://egymonitor.com/en)
- **Original URL**: [https://egymonitor.com/en/posts/address-poisoning-zero-value-transfer-attacks](https://egymonitor.com/en/posts/address-poisoning-zero-value-transfer-attacks)
- **Category**: [Tech](https://egymonitor.com/en/categories/tech)
- **Author**: عبدالرحمن شوقي
- **Published Date**: 2026-10-30 15:37
- **Keywords**: Binance, Address Poisoning, Social Engineering, Wallets, Crypto Scams

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## The Exploitation of Visual Trust Heuristics

As blockchain security perimeters harden, attackers increasingly exploit human operational habits. **Address poisoning** has surfaced as a stealthy vector tricking **Binance** users into voluntarily directing outbound withdrawals to malicious destinations.

### Algorithmic Generation of Look-Alike Addresses

The exploit exploits the human tendency to only visually verify the first and last few characters of complex hexadecimal strings:

- Scammers monitor public mempools for high-volume transactions from active Binance deposit accounts.
- High-performance vanity address generators compute private keys yielding addresses matching the victim's prefix and suffix.
- The attacker initiates a zero-value transaction from the vanity address to the victim's wallet, injecting it into their history.
- When subsequent transactions occur, the victim mistakenly copies the spoofed address from their historical transaction log.

> Because standard smart contract functions allow arbitrary addresses to emit transfer events, poisoning attacks require zero access to the victim's private credentials.

### Defensive Configurations: Strict Whitelisting

Binance strongly advises users to disable transaction-history copy routines, maintain verified address books, and enforce the platform's mandatory Address Whitelist security feature.