As stated multiple times throughout this thread, the claims being made here do not seem to be possible, and instead are likely due to one of the following factors:
- People entering their seed phrase words in the wrong order or with a typo
- Sometimes people are using a completely different seed phrase. Several users who thought they had this issue were able to recover their funds after correcting the order of the words they entered.
- Sometimes the users assets are on a different network that they need to re-add to MetaMask (ie. Binance Smart Chain)
- Sometimes the users tokens are custom tokens that need to be re-added to their fresh install of MetaMask.
Some individuals have claimed that entering the same secret recovery phrase can create a different set of accounts. We have had a bug bounty of 10ETH opened for this issue since 2018. If anyone can show us an example of a MetaMask install on two different devices producing different accounts, we will pay you 10ETH. Not a single person has ever been able to reproduce this in almost 4 YEARS of this bounty existing, despite many users using MetaMask on multiple devices. Our software engineers have audited the relevant code FOUR times. We’ll look at increasing the bounty even more.