Trust Wallet launches automatic Address Poisoning Protection to help prevent increasingly common attack

Trust Wallet has introduced a new security feature, Address Poisoning Protection, to shield users from address poisoning scams, which involve malicious actors using lookalike wallet addresses to trick users into sending funds to the wrong destination. This feature, available on mobile across 32 EVM chains with more planned, automatically scans transactions for incorrect addresses and alerts users before they send funds. The tool leverages intelligence from HashDit and Binance Security to identify known scam addresses and provides a side-by-side comparison of addresses to highlight differences. According to Trust Wallet CEO Felix Fan, this protection is crucial because the threat is subtle and potentially costly. Crypto scams are a significant problem, with $17 billion lost in 2025, and address poisoning is a relatively new but rapidly growing tactic, with over 1 million preparations detected daily on Ethereum. This new feature complements Trust Wallet’s existing security measures, including a transaction-level risk tool.

(Source：The Block)