How to get rid of useless tokens - page 12.

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Quote from: andyou1234 on April 26, 2022, 12:45:45 PM

You can't get rid of tokens that go into your wallet, but you should ignore them because most likely the incoming tokens is one of the ways for hackers who want to hijack your wallet, therefore you should be careful with those free tokens, never open and follow the instructions of the token system, by ignoring it, your wallet is very safe from fraudsters.

It's unavoidable because possible hackers are sending it on purpose. They are trying to trick wallet owners to penetrate with their assets.
Better to stay away or don't dare to touch those spam tokens inside your wallet, being curious is good but to the point that you are willing to take part, that's really something to think before you act, or better not to deal with it and just treat it as nothing inside your wallet.

One way to protect your wallet and the assets inside it is not to engage with those
new or unrecognized tokens.

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You can't get rid of tokens that go into your wallet, but you should ignore them because most likely the incoming tokens is one of the ways for hackers who want to hijack your wallet, therefore you should be careful with those free tokens, never open and follow the instructions of the token system, by ignoring it, your wallet is very safe from fraudsters.

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Quote from: Tamedbeast on April 25, 2022, 12:48:37 AM

Is there any way to stop unwanted tokens deposits in my wallet? I have used two different types of crypto wallets and I keep getting tokens I know nothing about, I read that those tokens are scammers trap and moreover I never worked for it.

Just ignore them, if you try to do anything to those tokens then you are falling into the trap of those scammers and you run the risk of losing your coins.

I know that your wallet looks kind of ugly with those useless coins there but there is nothing to do, now if you happen to need to make a transaction maybe that would be a good time to move your coins to a new address, however once the address is used it becomes public and those scammers can send their coins to that new address again.

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This is a matter of concern for everyone. But still there is nothing to do. You can simply avoid it. Scammers usually try to track wallets that contain large amounts of transactions or assets. Usually if you share your wallet address or join any kind of airdrop this type of action will result in scammers identifying you and they will try to cast their nets.

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All of those meaningless tokens were invented by scammers in order to defraud people; if you wanted to transact the coin, they would be able to obtain your information. So the best thing to do is to ignore those tokens in your wallet and always be sure of the token you want to sell or swap so that you don't make a mistake and swap that of fraudsters, because occasionally they will generate a token with certain values that may entice you to swap. Please continue to ignore such coins.

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Quote from: KaliLinux on April 26, 2022, 10:49:54 AM

Quote from: Pffrt on April 25, 2022, 10:56:53 AM

The best try would be stopping your address to be posted publicly. Most of the people join a lot of airdrops and sadly most of these airdrops are scam. They wont pay you anything but will collect your address and later make you a target. I hope you got the point I'm trying to make here.

You are right and people can easily create a different wallet address for all these airdrops if they wish to participate in those airdrops to avoid exposing their primary wallet even though I have noticed that even with you partaking in any airdrops, some of them still manage to drop in your wallet but you can simply ignore them.

Most of the airdrops today are just a waste of time. Some of the tasks are just spamming on social media and letting you put your information which we don't know if they are selling to other people. But, some of them are sending us their token but it would take years to have a value based on my experienced.

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Quote from: Pffrt on April 25, 2022, 10:56:53 AM

The best try would be stopping your address to be posted publicly. Most of the people join a lot of airdrops and sadly most of these airdrops are scam. They wont pay you anything but will collect your address and later make you a target. I hope you got the point I'm trying to make here.

You are right and people can easily create a different wallet address for all these airdrops if they wish to participate in those airdrops to avoid exposing their primary wallet even though I have noticed that even with you partaking in any airdrops, some of them still manage to drop in your wallet but you can simply ignore them.

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You are not in this alone, everyone are getting pissed off and there is nothing we can do about it, it's only a matter of time you will surely get used to it, either new or used wallet you will keep getting scam/fake tokens, it's also safer not to touch them.

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Yeah, unwanted tokens are usually not nice, cramps up your spaces and they are virtually useless to you. I feel your pains because i don't like them too. Really wish there was something i can do about it

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Im still getting more and more garbage tokens in my wallet but yeah no way to remove it. I just try to keep it rather than touch it as i don't wanna my wallet being compromised caused by i were touching the garbage token like that.
There is no way for you to remove it. The only way for you to keep it or move your wallet.If you didn't wanna see scam token in your wallet again and you must regularly moving your asset into new wallet address that newly created to store your funds

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Quote from: $anounimus$ on April 26, 2022, 08:17:08 AM

Quote from: Tamedbeast on April 25, 2022, 12:48:37 AM

Is there any way to stop unwanted tokens deposits in my wallet? I have used two different types of crypto wallets and I keep getting tokens I know nothing about, I read that those tokens are scammers trap and moreover I never worked for it.

There is no way to get rid of it completely. I think the absolute best way to deal with this is to just leave it alone and Never click on a link you're not sure about, even if it appears to be from a legitimate source. If you hold tokens that you never planned to use, we recommend moving them to another account/wallet and re-transferring them when needed or you can transfer your tokens to an exchange and exchange them for other coins if you wish if they are of value.

Yes, that's correct. We can't get rid of it, but we can avoid it by not paying any attention to the token.
Maybe that's why you should try to write every project you're in so you'll know if it's from a project you're already in or if it's a fake token.
Transferring your real tokens to another account/wallet is highly recommended because at least you can know what tokens have value in your wallet.
It's also to minimize your chances of being scammed.

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I think it's not too much of a problem when you know their evil intentions. Today, the crypto space is full of so many damn tokens that many newbies have reported that they have also lost money without understanding why. The main problem is the perception of the people using them, and we can completely upskill the basics to eliminate interest in all that shit, and IMO, having that background knowledge is pretty much harmless.

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Quote from: Tamedbeast on April 25, 2022, 12:48:37 AM

Is there any way to stop unwanted tokens deposits in my wallet?

You have already received many suggestions. In fact, we have nothing to do with it. Whenever you publish your wallet address, scammers add your wallet address to their scam list. Then they will try to trap you by sending different types of shit tokens. If you want to avoid their trap, never try to sell or sent these shit tokens.

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Quote from: Tamedbeast on April 25, 2022, 12:48:37 AM

Is there any way to stop unwanted tokens deposits in my wallet? I have used two different types of crypto wallets and I keep getting tokens I know nothing about, I read that those tokens are scammers trap and moreover I never worked for it.

Well you cant send coins away even if you dont want them. My suggestion is to ignore them, the presence of those tokens will not hurt your wallet. If possible try to move the rest of your assets to a new wallet, provided the calculated total gas fee is not that significant, though I heard that fees have been high recently.

By all means you have ignore these types of tokens. Try not to share your wallet public address on too many sites, but it is public so there is nothing you can actively do to stop this from happening.

I do wish that in future ethereum starts a method to block such tokens from coming in.

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You can't do anything about it and it's better to ignore those coins. I was curious how those coins detects your wallet and sends coins on that wallet, I tried to search the coins I received and the metamask warns me about it so I really think it is better to stay away on those coins that's the only thing you can do about it.

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Quote from: Tamedbeast on April 25, 2022, 12:48:37 AM

Is there any way to stop unwanted tokens deposits in my wallet? I have used two different types of crypto wallets and I keep getting tokens I know nothing about, I read that those tokens are scammers trap and moreover I never worked for it.

There is no way to get rid of it completely. I think the absolute best way to deal with this is to just leave it alone and Never click on a link you're not sure about, even if it appears to be from a legitimate source. If you hold tokens that you never planned to use, we recommend moving them to another account/wallet and re-transferring them when needed or you can transfer your tokens to an exchange and exchange them for other coins if you wish if they are of value.

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Quote from: danherbias07 on April 26, 2022, 05:01:23 AM

No difference with MEW. Trust Wallet has the same problem just when you added one token to your list then it will be like a wave of different coins being added to you. Millions in amount, will make you ask yourself if there is value and try to do anything to sell it. Look for an exchange, even the bottom ranking exchange, and figure out how to send it there and worse, pay the fees.
That's how they do it, then your account will succumb to darkness.

There is one thing I suspected why this happened to some members and that was they used that address to join airdrops, posted on social media, it was been exposed to the community. Of course, you'll be wondering how these coins are being sent to you, but you gonna wonder more because they have no value.

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If it's possible, create a new one, and send all the important coins even if it means spending.

This seems to be the solution but fees are somewhat expensive, I can't imagine moving my $50 coin and paying for 10bucks. I'd rather not, I'm going to ignore the other coins. Well, we don't know if someday this will have some market value.

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Quote from: Yogee on April 25, 2022, 05:58:47 PM

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Quote from: Tamedbeast on April 25, 2022, 12:48:37 AM

Is there any way to stop unwanted tokens deposits in my wallet? I have used two different types of crypto wallets and I keep getting tokens I know nothing about, I read that those tokens are scammers trap and moreover I never worked for it.

Do not post it publicly.
So the best thing to do is to abandon that wallet with scam tokens or unwanted tokens and then make a new one. Transfer your important assets from that wallet to the newly made wallet of yours.
And never post the address publicly so that marketers won't get a copy of your address for which they'll send those tokens in a batch along with other info that they've gathered.

Not posting publicly or changing to a new wallet also doesn't solve it. There are blockchains scanners so you can't prevent them even if you try to hide it from the public. Scammers can take snapshots of addresses with balances and send them tokens.

Probably the best thing is to get a wallet that has a feature to hide tokens you don't want.

MEW has that feature and I think other wallets too. Posting it publicly will help to minimize and reduce the possibility that those spam tokens will be sent to you.
That new address that you didn't post publicly won't be added to their lists and records where they'll just send a blast of those tokens that they've seen publicly.

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Quote from: StormHawk on April 26, 2022, 02:31:05 AM

I always thought that those tokens are showing up because of many airdrops I have participated in but I am surprised that with a new crypto wallet you will still get the same shit tokens deposited in your wallet, I am worried for the future of crypto because hackers and bad actors are not slowing down a bit, we need better security.

Shitcoins are mostly scammed tokens, though not all of them. One of the best way to get rid of useless tokens is by studying the road map of the project, to check whether it's legit or not. The crypto space is becoming more insecure for traders presently because the amount of hackers coming in to invade people's wallet is annoying. This category of anonymous hackers have create fake sites and scam community to lured people into investing in their projects. They also run scammed airdrops where they would refer you to fake telegram bot, which will ask you to pay a certain amount of money to withdraw your airdrop. It's all scam because those tokens are just glitch in the space.

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Quote from: Tamedbeast on April 25, 2022, 12:48:37 AM

Is there any way to stop unwanted tokens deposits in my wallet?

There's no way to stop it since it was randomly transferred into your public address. the only thing that you can do to create a safe wallet that rarely published. this may help you to avoid that but this will never work forever. It's just working temporary until your transactions will be known by scammers and they will be sending you another scam token again.

Quote from: Tamedbeast on April 25, 2022, 12:48:37 AM

I have used two different types of crypto wallets and I keep getting tokens I know nothing about, I read that those tokens are scammers trap and moreover I never worked for it.

Yeah i know that but that will never worked. If you are actively doing transactions and your tx will be recorded by blockchain.

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