I got scammed, how is this possible

He sent to his own metamask and by the time he checked again, it was already gone.
If he is using Windows, he probably has malware (keylogger, phishy addon, etc). so the issue is either his windows OS (I keep advising people not to use crypto on Windows), a fraudulent browser extension, phishing through hosts file or he really connected a fraud dApp. Which dApp you connected by the way?
The problem isn't Windows, it's how one uses it.

One has to resist downloading cracked software (unless it's must), but especially video games. Cracked video games are full of miners and other kinds of malware that anti viruses don't even detect.

I lost £2k entrusting it with my friend, he had a piece of malware on his pc that would detect a erc20 wallet in the clipboard and swap it with their own...


Wipe your drives brother
This.

Completely wipe your drives. Don't even try to scan and find the malware.
 
Is called crypto clipper. That mean you have a virus who detect wallet addresses by patters and manipulate your clipboard ( copy-paste ).
Try to copy a dummy wallet address and paste to a text document. See if is the same address

This cannot be it, because actually it sent it to the correct address.
 
Here are few method to do something like that:
1) Check your metamask. You should install Mahanadi detention only from their official website. There is too many fake metamask extensions.
2) allowing compromised DAPP. If you approve compromised or scam contract, hackers (devs) are able to withdraw your fund.
3) Malware on your computer. Here are 3 major methods to do something like that:
-keyloger. This is type of software that copy everything that you type and send this data to the hacker.
-cryptoclipper. This is software that change what you copied. For example, if you copy bnb address X, this type of software will change it to Y BNB address.
-another type of malware like rat, Trojan and other types.

Hope this help you o figure out how is happens.
 
Strange thing , guess we need to be more aware I think you should check for malware or any suspicious app
 
do you have any anti virus installed on your pc? just curious - did the antivirus fail to stop the hacker?
 
How does this happen? This is quite scary, I also have metamask on my desktop pc and some coins on it.

anything to look out for? I am only using windows defender, is this enough?
 
I can't explain that even for myself lol strange, i need to look out better
 
Op just scared the hell out of me. I have my wallets in my PC how could that happen. Should I move my wallets to a portable flash drive?
 
download and run TDSSKiller and KVRT or better do a fresh install of your OS
 
Op just scared the hell out of me. I have my wallets in my PC how could that happen. Should I move my wallets to a portable flash drive?

exactly what I thought, he should investigate this further and come with conclusion as to how did this happen, otherwise what’s the point of this thread… scary shi
 
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