How to check if the wallet address belongs to a scammer
You are asked to send money to a wallet which somebody claims that is your wallet at their website. Be alarmed. Check it out before you put money there!
7/1/20231 min read
1. Check the wallet address on a blockchain explorer: You can check the Bitcoin address on a blockchain explorer to see its transaction history. Look for any suspicious activity or large transactions that might indicate a scam.
Here is one site: https://zerion.io, choose zerion on the web and input your wallet address.
a. If it is supposed to be your own personal wallet, there should be NO transactions for such wallet address yet before your first transaction. Also check after you send the money to the wallet, if it is immediately transferred out, do not send money to it again.
b. Other typical scam wallet behavior: Receiving money from multiple accounts then immediately transferring out the money to one or few accounts; Large number of transactions on such account.
Here is an example:
Money was received at this address from different wallets then transferred out to another wallet in 3 to 4 minutes.
Do not send money to such wallet!
2. Check from the sites below
For bitcoin wallet, input your wallet address at https://www.bitcoinabuse.com/
And at https://scam-alert.io/.
For Ethereum wallet, input your wallet address at https://ethscamcheck.io/