An Ethereum wallet that had been inactive for years received lookalike dust transfers after a test payment, in activity described by BlockBeats as a suspected address-poisoning attempt.
Lookalike transfers
The address, traceable to Ethereum’s 2015 genesis block, first sent 0.05 ETH to a test recipient beginning 0x1321beb8 and ending 1A44. About three minutes later, it received micro transfers from two similar-looking addresses. Etherscan labels the accounts funding those addresses “Fake_Phishing,” and the more active account sent 43 dust transfers.
Later movement
At 6:42 Beijing time, the old wallet transferred 2,154.94 ETH, worth about $4.6 million, to the correct 0x1321beb8 address. The new address held about 2,155 ETH, according to the report.
Source: BlockBeats English report, published Nov. 10, 2026.