A Chebychev-like inequality using truncated second moment

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I came across a claim in a paper that I think reduces to:

Given a real valued, zero mean random variable $X$ with finite second moment and a constant $t$:

$$\mathbb P ( |X| > \epsilon ) \leq \frac{1}{\epsilon^2}\mathbb E \left [ X^2 \mathbb 1 \{ X^2 > \epsilon^2\} \right ]$$

Which looks like Chebychev's inequality, except using a truncated second moment, rather than the variance. My proof:

$$\mathbb P ( X^2 > \epsilon ) = \mathbb P ( X^2 \mathbb 1 \{|X| > \epsilon\} > \epsilon ) \leq \frac{1}{\epsilon}\mathbb E\{X^2\mathbb 1 \{|X| > \epsilon\}\}$$

My question:

Is this result correct? Does it have a name?