Returning part of the $TON makes him a scammer ?

BREAKING: A whale has accidentally sent 126,000 TON to a scammer, worth ~$220,000.

but the guy later returned 116,000 TON (~$203k) and kept 10,000 TON (~$17k) as a “reward” for returning funds.

Here’s a quick TLDR on what’s happened:

- a whale was about to send coins
- they accidentally copied the wrong wallet address from the transaction history. (This happened because the scammer had created a lookalike wallet address & sent a small amount of a TON to it, making it look real)
- The whale wasn’t paying attention carefully. he saw the similar first symbols of the Wallet address & the last, then…
- copied it without double-checking
- A whale then went through with sending 126,000 TON to the scammers wallet by mistake.

When the scammer received the funds, he urgently sent back 116k TON and even dropped a message in the transaction saying:

“Sorry, the money is too much. I know it’s your hard‑earned funds.”

In exchange for returning funds he kept 10k TON for himself as compensation.

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Would you return the funds if someone accidentally sent you 120k TON ($220k) or would you keep it?