The U.S. DEA was reportedly tricked into sending around $55,000 worth of seized Tether to a scammer through an “address poisoning” scam tactic.
The United States Drug Enforcement Administration — the agency tasked with enforcing the country’s drug laws — lost $55,000 in seized Tether earlier this year at the hands of a scammer.on Aug. 24 that in May, the agency seized over $500,000 worth of USDT from two Binance accounts it suspected of laundering money from drug sales as part of a multi-year investigation.
The funds were put in DEA-controlled Trezor crypto wallets and stored securely, according to a search warrant seen by Forbes. As part of standard forfeiture processing the DEA sent a test amount of just over $45 worth of USDT to the U.S. Marshals Service. An on-chain sleuth picked up on the transaction and then quickly set up a crypto wallet with the same first five and last four characters of the Marshals account — aThe scammer airdropped a token to the DEA’s wallet so that the spoofed address will appear as a recent transaction, and thus tricking the owner into accidentally transferring funds to the wrong address.Sent a second tx to someone just after the first, and was lazy and just copy pasted his address from my transaction history.
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