Trust Wallet Cracks Down on Address Poisoning with New Scam Screening Feature

Trust Wallet has added a new feature to prevent users from falling victim to address poisoning attacks. The tool screens destination wallet addresses against a database of known scam and lookalike addresses before a transaction is sent.

The initial rollout covers 32 Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible blockchains, including Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, Polygon, Optimism, Arbitrum, Avalanche, and Base.

Address poisoning is a phishing method in which attackers send small transactions to a target wallet. The goal is to get the recipient to later copy the attacker's address from their transaction history by mistake.

According to Trust Wallet, more than 225 million such attacks have occurred, resulting in over $500 million in confirmed losses. Two investors recently lost a combined $62 million to address poisoning attacks, with one of them losing $50 million in USDT in December 2025.