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Hackers have been observed abusing a feature in the Ethereum blockchain to trick victims into sending money.

The scheme is dubbed address poisoning.

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That, however, still leaves the second failsafe - the test transaction.

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Criminals are working around this by forwarding the test transaction to the actual address.

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