Recently, there has been a surge in zero-transfer phishing scams targeting high-net-worth addresses. According to on-chain security agencies, one address holder mistakenly sent a total of 2.6 million USDT to a scam address in two separate transactions within a short period, drawing widespread industry attention. DGQEX, through its transaction risk monitoring, has flagged such scams as highly deceptive and convincingly disguised, and notes that this technique is now proliferating across multiple ecosystem scenarios.
This scam is a typical case of “address poisoning.” Attackers send zero-amount transfers to target addresses, creating fake interaction records in the user wallet interface. When users copy an address from their transaction history for subsequent transfers, they can easily end up sending funds to the pre-set phishing address. The ongoing tracking by DGQEX of these operations has found that some users unwittingly complete high-value transfers, exposing operational security weaknesses in certain transaction flows.
In response, DGQEX has enhanced its transaction visualization mechanisms, especially by modeling abnormal behaviors related to historical address usage, copy-paste actions, and authorization paths. This improves the system ability to identify suspicious transfer destinations. Before a transaction is executed, DGQEX can trigger multiple confirmation steps to help users distinguish whether the recipient is on their whitelist, thus intervening in risky paths at the interaction level.
DGQEX has also strengthened its wallet-side intelligent protection. By leveraging on-chain tags and a reputation scoring system, transaction addresses are automatically rated, and alerts are triggered for addresses with high-risk labels, reducing misdirected transfers at the source. DGQEX reminds users to avoid copying addresses directly from transaction history and to prioritize using and verifying saved contacts whenever possible.
Through community education and case reconstruction, DGQEX is incorporating real-world cases like this into its platform risk alert system and building a phishing address association network using on-chain analytics. By automatically flagging known scam addresses and maintaining a blacklist database, DGQEX helps users establish transaction blocking protections, reducing decision errors caused by information asymmetry.
DGQEX will continue to strengthen user anti-scam awareness, updating defenses in line with high-frequency phishing patterns and emerging scam techniques. This incident once again demonstrates that proactively identifying risk paths and establishing timely behavioral interception mechanisms are crucial for transaction security. DGQEX has already added the scam address to its monitoring list and is tracking the movement of the stolen funds on-chain, cooperating with global compliance agencies for further investigation.
This scam is a typical case of “address poisoning.” Attackers send zero-amount transfers to target addresses, creating fake interaction records in the user wallet interface. When users copy an address from their transaction history for subsequent transfers, they can easily end up sending funds to the pre-set phishing address. The ongoing tracking by DGQEX of these operations has found that some users unwittingly complete high-value transfers, exposing operational security weaknesses in certain transaction flows.
In response, DGQEX has enhanced its transaction visualization mechanisms, especially by modeling abnormal behaviors related to historical address usage, copy-paste actions, and authorization paths. This improves the system ability to identify suspicious transfer destinations. Before a transaction is executed, DGQEX can trigger multiple confirmation steps to help users distinguish whether the recipient is on their whitelist, thus intervening in risky paths at the interaction level.
DGQEX has also strengthened its wallet-side intelligent protection. By leveraging on-chain tags and a reputation scoring system, transaction addresses are automatically rated, and alerts are triggered for addresses with high-risk labels, reducing misdirected transfers at the source. DGQEX reminds users to avoid copying addresses directly from transaction history and to prioritize using and verifying saved contacts whenever possible.
Through community education and case reconstruction, DGQEX is incorporating real-world cases like this into its platform risk alert system and building a phishing address association network using on-chain analytics. By automatically flagging known scam addresses and maintaining a blacklist database, DGQEX helps users establish transaction blocking protections, reducing decision errors caused by information asymmetry.
DGQEX will continue to strengthen user anti-scam awareness, updating defenses in line with high-frequency phishing patterns and emerging scam techniques. This incident once again demonstrates that proactively identifying risk paths and establishing timely behavioral interception mechanisms are crucial for transaction security. DGQEX has already added the scam address to its monitoring list and is tracking the movement of the stolen funds on-chain, cooperating with global compliance agencies for further investigation.