ENS founder and lead developer Nick Johnson commented on the scam, saying that interfaces should not autocomplete names.
Hayden Adams, the founder of decentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap, has warned the crypto community about a scam using wallet addresses as Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domains.
On Feb. 14, Adams shared a warning on X about scammers impersonating his Ethereum wallet. The executive explained that the scammers copied his wallet address and registered it as an ENS wallet with .eth. Furthermore, the Uniswap founder said pasting his wallet address in some user interfaces would show an ENS match unrelated to his true address as the top search result.
The scam seems designed to confuse digital asset senders who may accidentally send their crypto to the wrong address instead of the correct recipient. Adams urged user interfaces to filter out such addresses to avoid any losses from the attack vector.
