Was my USDT address faked?

Scammers create addresses that start and end exactly like yours and plant them in the histories of people who pay you. Paste your TRON address: we search 7.3 million look-alikes found across the whole network since December 2023, plus your own recent transfers.

What a look-alike looks like

One real address from our scan. It was imitated by 399 different look-alikes that sent 11,419 lures to 8,874 wallets. Wallet apps usually show only the first and last characters, so all of these look the same at a glance:

realTSBTdYkJoBiq3LpoTykKdvm2XpKHqTPFyg

fakeTSBT7mk9SnRjXvbqVqpdf6oCYZD6qTPFyg

fakeTSBTstLA88xWjxeCAkgDF9GSgY5EqTPFyg

fakeTSBTPQ4eoPa86jHm5JkRsA3B7dYUqTPFyg

Two ways your address gets used

Someone pretends to be you. A look-alike of your address sends a zero-value or dust transfer to your clients and partners. Next time they pay you, they copy “you” from their history and the money goes to the scammer. You lose the payment and they blame you.
Someone pretends to be your partners. Look-alikes of the people you pay appear in your own history. If you copy an address from there, you pay the scammer.

What to do if look-alikes were found

Tell regular payers to compare your address in full, or to send a test transfer first.
Never copy an address from transaction history. Use the address book or paste it fresh from the chat.
For large regular payments consider a new receiving address and share it directly.
In @freezecheck_bot the command /poison T… checks any address for free, and “🎭 Look-alikes” sits under every report.

Background and numbers: 2.17 million look-alikes in a year and the address poisoning guide. The full dataset is open on Zenodo.