Note: This issue similarly affects ots_searchTransactionsAfter.
Sending this RPC call to Erigon returns transactions that include contract creations which do not interact with the zero address:
{
"id": 238,
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "ots_searchTransactionsBefore",
"params": [
"0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
0,
25
]
}
Note that in these tests, the zero address is also the fee recipient.