October 14, 2026

Three "1,057,533.50 USDC" transfers into one address within 20 minutes. Only one is real

Look at the collector wallet from the Ledger drain. Its history shows three incoming transfers of exactly the same amount — 1,057,533.50 USDC.

The first is real USDC from the thief's wallet. The second, 84 seconds later, is a token with the ticker "USDC" from a different contract. The sender is forged: the same address as the real one. The third, 19 minutes later, is a token whose name is spelled "USDC" in look-alike Unicode letters, sent from a look-alike address: the first five and last four characters match the real one.

In three days, eight of the thief's wallets received 188 such transfers from 11 copycat "USDC" tokens. Scammers were setting traps for the person who had just stolen $93M.

WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU

Any tool that counts money by token name shows 3.2M here instead of 1.06M. Our route map did exactly that on the morning of October 12. We fixed it the same day: only the real stablecoin contract counts as money, never the ticker.

The rule for any check you do yourself: in the explorer, look not at "USDC" in the row but at the contract address. There is one real USDC on Ethereum — 0xa0b8…6eb48. Anything else with that ticker is someone else's.

And second: never copy an address from your history. A look-alike differs in the middle, which nobody reads.

Check an address before you send: https://t.me/amlconsensus_bot?start=en