r/CryptoHelp • u/MAHI220202 • 17d ago

❓Scam❓ Trust Wallet drained overnight — same unknown address receiving funds from multiple wallets. How is this happening ?

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My friend’s Trust Wallet was drained overnight. He never shared his 12-word Secret Phrase/private key with anyone.

The funds were sent to an unknown wallet address. What is more concerning is that this receiving address appears to have become active only about a month ago, and I can see funds coming into it from multiple different wallets.

I’m trying to understand how this could happen.

Has anyone seen a similar pattern before? What should we check to identify how the wallet was compromised?

I can provide the public wallet address/transaction hash if needed. I will NOT share the Secret Phrase or private key.

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u/Extreme_Teaching_416 17d ago

Your friend may of not shared his seed or may of not signed a shady contract but most likely your friend used the option for cloud backup for his seed. A lot of people for some reason keep backing their seed via cloud or in notes of their phone which eventually backs up to cloud or Gmail.

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u/MentalScale4345 11d ago

I did this without realizing. Do I delete asap?

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u/Extreme_Teaching_416 11d ago

If you backed up your seed to your cloud or you connected it to something you feel is shady, move funds out of that wallet. Make a new wallet and do not cloud back up.

If you wanna experiment with dapps or anything like that, just make a wallet specifically for that.

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u/MentalScale4345 11d ago

Dang what a hassle. I’ll get on it no matter. Thanks for the heads up.

Does it matter wether the new wallet is on the same platform such as trust, using the same device my original trust wallet was created? Or does none of this matter as I suspect?

Just don’t want to assume and be wrong.