The United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) lost $55,000 in seized Tether earlier this year due to a scammer's "address poisoning" tactic. The DEA had seized over $500,000 worth of USDT from two Binance accounts suspected of laundering drug money.

The funds were securely stored in DEA-controlled Trezor crypto wallets, but a scammer tricked the agency into transferring funds to the wrong address. The DEA and FBI are investigating the incident and have found two Binance accounts that paid for the attacker wallet gas fees using two Gmail email addresses.