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Mempool Sniping Causes Immediate Loss from Hacked Wallet

No — any ETH I send to my hacked wallet is immediately contested in the mempool. A mempool war breaks out and the hacker reclaims the funds in the very next block.

I’ve seen transactions get front‑run or replaced by higher‑fee replies, so sending ETH to that address is effectively unrecoverable in practice.

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Analysis

The situation describes a classic mempool/MEV attack: bots and the attacker monitor pending transactions and outbid or replace them with higher‑fee transactions so the hacker captures funds on the nex...

Recommendation

Do not send ETH to the hacked address. Instead, stop on‑chain activity with that wallet, contact exchanges or custodians if funds were moved through them, and pursue chain‑analysis and law‑enforcement...

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