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segwit paper wallet address generator P2WPKH
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Receiving address automatically changed, coins lost #18

Open anandks111 opened 3 years ago

anandks111 commented 3 years ago

I was trying to transfer my coins through segwitaddress.org. My address 3Ka was created using this website. I tried to transfer the coins to 3PX1. But the receiving address automatically changed to 3Nw___ and my coins are lost. Can anyone help?

coinables commented 3 years ago

That is very concerning. Are you sure you were using segwitaddress.org and not a phishing site? Any other details you can provide? Have you checked your machine for viruses? I know this doesn't help at all but preferably you should only download the segwitaddress.org source files from github and run it on your own machine so you can be sure of what is running. Putting your private key into a live browser can be risky.

anandks111 commented 3 years ago

I am 100% sure that it is not a phishing site. Because I am using it for the last 12 months and have transferred the coins several times. The URL is bookmarked in my browser. I had used Google Chrome (as I had done before). Haven't checked my system for trojans and spyware yet. I thought that since I have anti-virus, it won't be an issue.

This is what I did: My wallet had around 0.01 BTC. I browsed to https://segwitaddress.org/#entropyRef, and tried the "Sweep SegWit Private Key" option by inputting the private key and destination address. The first time, I noticed that the address got changed when I clicked the "Transfer all funds" option. Again, since I had done this so manytimes, I thought that it was a mistake and I just manually changed the address to my destination address and again clicked on "Transfer all funds". But the coins were sent to the other address.

coinables commented 3 years ago

Have you added any browser plug-ins recently?

anandks111 commented 3 years ago

No.. checked again... no new plugins and extensions.

coinables commented 3 years ago

Unless my server was compromised, which it doesn't appear to be, I'm leaning towards some sort of spyware/malware on your machine. Did this happen to you on two transactions? The receiving address has received two transactions today. Were they both yours?

anandks111 commented 3 years ago

Yes... both the transactions done from the same laptop. Anyway, I am not sure whether my laptop is infected or not. I will wait for a couple of days. If no other users are reporting such issues, that mean that something is wrong with my laptop.

coinables commented 3 years ago

Checking in to see the results of the virus scan on your machine. Any updates?

anandks111 commented 3 years ago

Got one of my friends to check everything. Didn't found any spyware or trojans.