Blockchain data firm Bitquery's findings, released on October 9, 2026, reveal that lookalike payment addresses targeted nearly 4.5 million Solana wallets over 11 months. The technique, known as address poisoning, involves a small incoming transfer of 'dust' to plant a misleading entry in a wallet's payment history, placing a scammer's lookalike address near a legitimate one. Bitquery cited a November 17, 2025 case where a wallet first sent $10 in USDT to its Gate.io deposit address, then a lookalike sent dust 12 seconds later. The wallet subsequently sent a second $10 test to the fake address, followed by 30,749.80 USDT to the same incorrect address. The study identified 1,104 wallets that made qualifying payments totaling $940,106 due to this scam.