The MetaMask team tweeted that a new scam called "address poisoning scam" is on the rise. Attackers use a virtual address generator to generate an address similar to the victim's wallet address, and send $0 or nothing to the user's wallet. worth of tokens, and the next time a user needs to use a wallet address, it is entirely possible to inadvertently copy their address from the transaction history and paste it elsewhere, allowing the attacker to receive the funds irretrievably. MetaMask says it cannot stop scammers from sending transactions to user addresses, reminds users to be careful and double-check transactions before sending funds, avoid copying addresses from transaction history, use hardware wallets, add commonly used addresses to your address book, consider using Test transaction.