Feature Request: Reduce Transfer Fraud By Quickly Adding Form Autocomplete Support For The Steemit Wallet Transfer "To:" Field

When transferring SBD or Steem via the Steemit wallet, it is unnecessarily easy to typo a transfer target and "lose" the funds at the destination.

Currently, when you attempt to send a transfer via the Steemit.com interface, this is what you will see:

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If you type into the field to enter a transfer target, it will not save your past entries nor provide autocompletes based on your currently entered letter(s). This is a helpful feature for increasing entry accuracy in many online forms. It definitely provides piece of mind when entering targets, and I appreciate the autocomplete feature when transferring cryptocurrency at exchanges, where it is usually enabled for wallet targets.

Without this feature, communities that send many transfers regularly (for example, payouts for all sorts of community games and contests) are more likely to make transfer errors, leading to lost funds and unnecessary blockchain traffic.

Another unfortunate issue aggravated by this missing feature is "account impersonation", or what I like to call "typo fraud". Below are a number of examples of this type of impersonation affecting the community:

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Adding form autocomplete would reduce both actual typos and account impersonation.

This would appear to be as easy as toggling the autocomplete= field in the wallet to on. It is currently set to off.

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I am not aware of any security reason why this should be forced to remain off, however, there could be one.

There is no option to add a favorite or saved transfer receipient. These would be great, but form autocomplete support is an extremely easy to implement stop gap option until a better feature can be included.



Open Source Contribution posted via https://utopian.io

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