Any Idea on how to detect any phishing airdrops trying to steal tokens

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Quote from: BayAngelo on August 25, 2021, 03:01:55 PM

I wish to ask if there is/are means to identify tokens that are scam?

Some of these scam airdrop asks deposit first or tell you its a donation, mostly even ask you to paste/enter your wallet's private keys or recovery seed which you shouldn't.

If you think it doesn't feel right, then it is doesn't feel right so better to stay away from it.

Actually, there are many new forms of scam which I have encountered recently. For example, there are a veraswap token on binance chain. Those tokens are distributed to mostly everyone who has money in their bsc wallet. And because of the high value, people tend to swap those Veraswap into other coins which are more famous such as usdt or BNB. However, once you approve contract, they immediately steal all of your coins. I guess the only way to avoid most of scam is to be skeptical and always ask yourself whether a coin is legit or not. Also remember to increase your knowledge in this field

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Quote from: BayAngelo on August 25, 2021, 03:01:55 PM

These days we see loads of free tokens dropped in our wallets. Binance smart chain and tron, major place for these drops. there has been an alarm raised by some smart people that those tokens are means of stealing from your wallet if you interact with the smart contract.

The bottom line is that curiosity kills the cat.

Junks tokens being sent to wallets is a common thing, I have some in my ethereum wallet when I took part in a bunch of bounty campaigns and then once I stopped from then on, there has been no such sendings. If you just ignore those you should be fine.

The problem happens with the bounty hunters. Since they are often delayed in payment, getting a sudden increase in tokens by some fake token piques their interest because they were hoping to get the payment from some bounty.

Other than that, one cannot send a token to hack your wallet - if that would happen then all the big bagholders of TRON and ETH would be in trouble.

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You guys are exposing your wallet addresses and that's why you're receiving loads of those useless tokens that are eager to scam you through exchanging it.

Quote from: BayAngelo on August 25, 2021, 03:01:55 PM

Are there ways to remove this tokens with out creating a loophole for them in our wallet?

No way, everyone have to be aware of the existence of these tokens to be avoided and give alarm to others.

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Quote from: BayAngelo on August 25, 2021, 03:01:55 PM

These days we see loads of free tokens dropped in our wallets. Binance smart chain and tron, major place for these drops. there has been an alarm raised by some smart people that those tokens are means of stealing from your wallet if you interact with the smart contract.

I wish to ask if there is/are means to identify tokens that are scam?
are there viable/easy means looking at smart contracts to discover tokens with the intention of stealing from wallets.?
Are there ways to remove this tokens with out creating a loophole for them in our wallet?

No one can steal your tokens by sneding tokens to your address but you have to make sure when dealing with smart contracts, recently there was some bug found in MEW or metamask if I am not wrong where the end user can access to it.

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Quote from: BayAngelo on August 25, 2021, 03:01:55 PM

These days we see loads of free tokens dropped in our wallets. Binance smart chain and tron, major place for these drops. there has been an alarm raised by some smart people that those tokens are means of stealing from your wallet if you interact with the smart contract.

I wish to ask if there is/are means to identify tokens that are scam?
are there viable/easy means looking at smart contracts to discover tokens with the intention of stealing from wallets.?
Are there ways to remove this tokens with out creating a loophole for them in our wallet?

Im bit aware that there are some coins been sent randomly on an address and if someone tending to sent it on other place or tending to sell then they do really pay up some gas or something like that.

Minding off on what are phishing then its understandable on just using up your own common sense. How to get rid of it or try to avoid?
As long you arent inputting your seedphrase or something needed to access your wallet then you would be safe.

They cant do any much harm if you do just know on what you are doing. Dont input which arent supposed to be inputted.

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are you hoping that one of them is valuable? better not. just wait a few days or weeks and check out explorer if you're really curious. most of the time the token will get labelled as fake/phising/scam. or just ignore it as mentioned above. no need to get stressed out over some phishing tokens.

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The only way to detect fake or phishing airdrops is through their Smart Contract address and you stay away from airdrop organized by the project which Smart contract is not audited. However, any airdrop that involved enter the private keys of your wallet on a site that's different from well know Dex site is a scam especially when it has to do with making a certain deposit before withdraw.

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I have some good suggestions about how what can help

1. Checking the coins if listed on coingecko, this is very important
2. Make use of new wallet that is not funded for new airdrop
3. Not even thinking of collecting airdrop because some may only need information from individual in form of KYC

There are different types of scam airdrop can result to, it can be a direct hack of you wallet, I t can also be the one that will lead to phishing email.

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Quote from: BayAngelo on August 25, 2021, 03:01:55 PM

I wish to ask if there is/are means to identify tokens that are scam?

No, you yourself are more careful to claim airdrops that come in a lot of phishing, don't click directly on the button that is directly related to the wallet, it can detect your private key and you will lose all the assets in your wallet, usually ETH after you sell the coins.

So don't care about airdrops asking for direct access to the wallet, just ignore them.

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Surely you can just ignore them, that is, if you didn't participate on them. If you did, just make sure you didn't provide anything to them, not any amount nor any information. If you are attracted to airdrops, even if they aren't attractive at all, I advise that you create a specific wallet for them. Give them a separate unused address as well. If you can, just stay away from all of them. 99% of them are no good and there's a ton of new airdrops every single day. It is next to impossible to thoroughly screen them.

Airdropped tokens and coins don't speak much. So I advise that you go directly to the project itself and make sure the contract address of the airdropped tokens is exactly the same address indicated in their official whitepaper or website.

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Quote from: BayAngelo on August 25, 2021, 03:01:55 PM

~ are there viable/easy means looking at smart contracts to discover tokens with the intention of stealing from wallets.?

If you receive an airdrop that you didn't participate, then there's always the intention to get something from you. There's no free lunch.

If you're asked to connect your wallet to a particular website before you could claim that token, stay away.

Quote from: BayAngelo on August 25, 2021, 03:01:55 PM

Are there ways to remove this tokens with out creating a loophole for them in our wallet?

You cannot delete tokens that were randomly airdropped to your wallet but you have the option to hide them.

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Quote from: BayAngelo on August 25, 2021, 03:01:55 PM

These days we see loads of free tokens dropped in our wallets. Binance smart chain and tron, major place for these drops. there has been an alarm raised by some smart people that those tokens are means of stealing from your wallet if you interact with the smart contract.

As already written from others there are no real tools for check them if they are phishing or scam.
Airdrops mostly you dont have to do much , and if they ask for something like to send them first , its SCAM 100%.
Also watch out how the Airdrops are written and if the links are right , it also helps to Google about the Project and sometimes it helps to use the search function here on the Forum.
Double or triple check everything on it.

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Quote from: BayAngelo on August 25, 2021, 03:01:55 PM

I wish to ask if there is/are means to identify tokens that are scam?

Yes there are but naturally only expert on smart contracts can fully check whether there is a hidden agenda by the project creator. Normally for project to be called legit, they need to pass your level of judgement such as seeing the team member and legit one not just a copy paste social profile of othet people.

Also if they are active on social media and has an organic community with some engagement. If the project only talks about sale or profit then its kinda suspicious. Anyway for tools there is no way to catch it but for a guy who can sense iy based on observations then can avoid it.

Best prevention is avoid those free airdrops that are highly suspicious.

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If it asks for private key upon registering which is a blatant way for these scammers. But even if it doesn't ask for a private key, it's almost worthless to get these tokens actually as these tokens will not be listed in any exchange. I did join some of it before but after giving away my emails to these airdrops, I also received a lot of scam offers and phishing attempts because they send emails to lure yours to login. You can either not join if they ask email or simply avoid airdrops.

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Phishing is different from stealing just look it at up the right meaning.

Anyway, to avoid any problems that might concern your safety of your token, it's better to avoid accepting airdrops some of them are just a load of shit bag in your wallet. And if that's how easy to steal tokens to anyone there would be a lot of reports coming from the victim. So, the answer is no and you should consider what the above me was saying, it's for your own safety.

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No, I can't see any tools to know phishing airdrops. If you want to be safe from any fake airdrops and phishing always check their contract address if it was a fake one or the original.
Go to something like Coingecko most tokens are in their list with contract addresses.

Also to be safe don't accept any popup from your wallet if you visit any new and phishing sites always reject them if you don't want to lose your tokens and coins.

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Quote from: BayAngelo on August 25, 2021, 03:01:55 PM

I wish to ask if there is/are means to identify tokens that are scam?

Some of these scam airdrop asks deposit first or tell you its a donation, mostly even ask you to paste/enter your wallet's private keys or recovery seed which you shouldn't.

If you think it doesn't feel right, then it is doesn't feel right so better to stay away from it.

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These days we see loads of free tokens dropped in our wallets. Binance smart chain and tron, major place for these drops. there has been an alarm raised by some smart people that those tokens are means of stealing from your wallet if you interact with the smart contract.

I wish to ask if there is/are means to identify tokens that are scam?
are there viable/easy means looking at smart contracts to discover tokens with the intention of stealing from wallets.?
Are there ways to remove this tokens with out creating a loophole for them in our wallet?

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