What to do with spam and scam tokens on my wallet? - page 2.

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Quote from: woobid on September 25, 2023, 09:34:13 AM

Hi, please tell me, I have information that my wallet (BNB Smart Chain) has 9 tokens stored on it. Of them 2 tokens are normal: BNB and LUNA, the other tokens were sent to me by scammers. And now they are stored on my wallet. How can I get rid of them? How can I stop such "left" tokens from being sent to me? What do you do with such tokens? I tried to see these tokens through PancakeSwap and Trust Wallet, but they are not displayed there.

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Until now, I still have these in my wallets. If I were you, just leave it as it is and do not interact with it like attempting to swap, transfer, etc.

They are likely called as honeypot tokens. Your wallet would likely be infected once you attempt to interact with those scam tokens being set to your address. If doing so, most likely you experience being auto-drained every time you deposit any crypto there and cannot be reversed.

Much better not to do anything with those scam and spam tokens and you’ll have no problem whatsoever. Just my two sats.

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Quote from: laichienduowcroi on October 02, 2023, 06:35:19 AM

All those unfamiliar tokens are scams; please don't attempt to trade them because the website you're trying to use for trading is very likely to steal all the funds in your wallet.

yes I agree and if I could add an opinion, First and foremost, do not interact with these tokens. This means do not buy more of them, do not send them to anyone, and do not click on any links or messages related to them. Interacting with scam tokens can result in financial losses or security risks.and If you've come across a scam token, you can report it to relevant authorities or platforms. This may not directly help you recover your funds but can help prevent others from falling victim to the same scam.

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Quote from: AakZaki on September 29, 2023, 08:13:18 AM

The more activity there is on an address, the greater its potential for receiving spam tokens. That's what I also experienced at the same address, even though I never shared it with anyone or shared it on the forum. quite a lot of scam tokens are starting to come. Moreover, if whales' addresses continue to be active, then they will also be targeted. always hide incoming spam tokens and don't try to sell them, it's just a trap for dusting.

This is what I have experienced since playing airdrop and GA, the more we share wallet addresses, the more spam tokens we receive, and what makes me tempted is because the estimated price in the wallet is very large. Not a few have fallen into Batman's trap from this fraudster. So now even though I participate in the airdrop, I separate my main wallet from the wallet used for the airdrop, and the assets I store in the airdrop address are not much, just enough for gas costs, the rest I keep in the main wallet. Because I saw quite a lot of other friends who were victims of token spam, once hit, our assets were all drained without anything left. The wisest advice is true, as you said, never want to sell, it's better to just ignore it.

And that gives an advantage to the scammers and the more we bother ourselves seeing it, the more it attracts them (scammers). It is better to just ignore and let these useless coins/tokens stay in our wallets rather than give these scammers a way to scam us. We are very uncertain about their plan but they usually attack those people who are weak and greedy. Indeed, airdrop and bounty participation seem to be a reason for this but we don't need to blame. As long as we don't entertain strangers claiming that it was their coins, nothing surely happened to us and our funds are still safe.

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All those unfamiliar tokens are scams; please don't attempt to trade them because the website you're trying to use for trading is very likely to steal all the funds in your wallet.

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Quote from: AakZaki on September 29, 2023, 08:13:18 AM

The more activity there is on an address, the greater its potential for receiving spam tokens. That's what I also experienced at the same address, even though I never shared it with anyone or shared it on the forum. quite a lot of scam tokens are starting to come. Moreover, if whales' addresses continue to be active, then they will also be targeted. always hide incoming spam tokens and don't try to sell them, it's just a trap for dusting.

This is what I have experienced since playing airdrop and GA, the more we share wallet addresses, the more spam tokens we receive, and what makes me tempted is because the estimated price in the wallet is very large. Not a few have fallen into Batman's trap from this fraudster. So now even though I participate in the airdrop, I separate my main wallet from the wallet used for the airdrop, and the assets I store in the airdrop address are not much, just enough for gas costs, the rest I keep in the main wallet. Because I saw quite a lot of other friends who were victims of token spam, once hit, our assets were all drained without anything left. The wisest advice is true, as you said, never want to sell, it's better to just ignore it.

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Quote from: bluebit25 on September 30, 2023, 03:41:47 AM

There are a few mentions that I found very helpful for those new to this, perhaps more people need to get used to the fact that everything that comes up in this space works for good. The only choice is to continue using it and not pay attention to those things, or use a new address and encounter this again in the future.
I think it's not too big a problem during use, as long as the user is skilled enough to recognize those things as toxic.

You can just ignore it because the moment you try to move it, I’m sure hacker are just waiting for that moment so better to avoid it. Spam and scam token are there for a purpose and if you have it on your wallet then for sure you are exposed already. Using another address might be ideal, but you can still have it especially if you are into bounty hunting and the airdrop. You can just have your one main wallet for holding your good coins and if its for bounty only, just ignore those tokens.

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Quote from: Blitzboy on September 30, 2023, 07:26:13 AM

I understand how frustrating these unwanted coins are. Right? Your wallet, room. Your major concern seems to be getting rid of these tokens and preventing this from happening again.

Since blockchains are permissionless, you can't normally prohibit tokens from reaching your wallet. No need to keep them; having them in your wallet won't hurt.

If it bothers you, contact the wallet provider or exchange to hide or remove these tokens. Ignoring such phony tokens is better. Avoid selling or talking to them. These codes may put you at risk.

I don't think it gonna be a problem if its a wallet owned by exchange, also how can someone contact wallet provider to just remove the shitcoin?
doesn't that mean the wallet provider have access to your money which imply that there's bigger problem here?

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Quote from: woobid on September 25, 2023, 09:34:13 AM

Hi, please tell me, I have information that my wallet (BNB Smart Chain) has 9 tokens stored on it. Of them 2 tokens are normal: BNB and LUNA, the other tokens were sent to me by scammers. And now they are stored on my wallet. How can I get rid of them? How can I stop such "left" tokens from being sent to me? What do you do with such tokens? I tried to see these tokens through PancakeSwap and Trust Wallet, but they are not displayed there.

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Just ignore it and dont tend to make actions in regard because if you do tend to sell those coins then you would be basically be wasting up
some money on using up those fees. Usually you would really be seeing huge amount or $$$ with those free token on which it would really be boggling you that there might be someone
who do mistakenly sent out their coins which we know that it cant really be that possible. Grin

Are you aware of dusting attack? If not, then this would really be a good read up in regarding to it.

https://cointelegraph.com/explained/what-is-a-crypto-dusting-attack-and-how-do-you-avoid-it
https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/crypto-dusting-attack-bitcoin

If you dont like to experience up such problems then it would really be just that wise that you should really be not minding
or trying to touch up those coins.

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Quote from: abel1337 on September 28, 2023, 01:11:56 PM

Leave that alone. There's nothing to gain if you interact with it and there's a chance that you can get hacked if you are unlucky enough. Don't be blinded by tokens that has a fake value that appears on your wallet, most of the time those are scam tokens. I had these useless tokens that were sent to me by random people, I abandoned my old wallet before that has so many useless tokens including those shitcoins that I didn't intend to be stuck on my wallet for years of using it. Better be safe than sorry.

This should be everyone's approach. These things are filled with hacks and if you try to cash them out, you are going to end up with a problem. There are so many dust tokens and fake airdrops, the idea is twofold, either they are trying to make their "holders" number bigger by sending it to random addresses, which would have worked at the time before we knew this method but not so much nowadays, there are still some people who knows it eventually.

The second possibility is to make sure that you are going to be safe because they might be aiming to get into your wallet, they would have a fake token and a fake defi, you would see token valued a lot, and want to exchange it for money, go to that defi, and give it rights, and then they will empty your wallet.

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I understand how frustrating these unwanted coins are. Right? Your wallet, room. Your major concern seems to be getting rid of these tokens and preventing this from happening again.

Since blockchains are permissionless, you can't normally prohibit tokens from reaching your wallet. No need to keep them; having them in your wallet won't hurt.

If it bothers you, contact the wallet provider or exchange to hide or remove these tokens. Ignoring such phony tokens is better. Avoid selling or talking to them. These codes may put you at risk.

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There are a few mentions that I found very helpful for those new to this, perhaps more people need to get used to the fact that everything that comes up in this space works for good. The only choice is to continue using it and not pay attention to those things, or use a new address and encounter this again in the future.
I think it's not too big a problem during use, as long as the user is skilled enough to recognize those things as toxic.

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Quote from: irsykes on September 29, 2023, 11:39:58 AM

It is more dominant to store altcoins on the ethereum network which I think has great potential for the long term, and many new airdrop projects are born from the ethereum network which is better. I will definitely exchange it for more efficient stable coins and transfer it to the market to avoid theft.
I already have a Safepal hard wallet but I have never used it to store altcoins long term.

The great potential for the long term must see how the altcoin develops.
Even though it is on the Ethereum ERC20 network it is not a guarantee that Altcoin will have good potential.
There are many kinds of altcoins that end up with fraud and many are abandoned.

Whatever network the altcoin is on, take a look and do some research.
If you get it from an airdrop then see how the coin is developed. If it just becomes trash then there is nothing to look forward to.

I have been a Safepal user for more than 2 years and it is still safe and sound until now.
The main security is in the user, Make sure to keep the Phrase or private key well without being known by others.

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Quote from: ImThour on September 25, 2023, 11:28:52 AM

I am not sure why it concerns you, the hackers send these shitcoins to everyone who is visible on the blockchain so we can be sure that everyone on this forum who have used Web3 or did some ETH stuff has received it in the past. What I suggest you to do is to ignore them and move forward or create a new address if it really bothers you. There were also some projects built to remove dust (shitcoins) by sending it to burn address.

I find it hard to believe that anyone wouldn't be concerned about having unaccounted-for coins in their wallet, especially when these coins pose a risk of theft from your valuable portfolio. I'm very eager to acquire wallets that offer protection or technology capable of preventing such incidents.

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Quote from: EL MOHA on September 25, 2023, 09:45:40 AM

This is called address poisoning according to Faisal2202. It is method used by scammers to probably monitor the address and it is hard to stop this kind of attack because you can not stop people from sending you coins or tokens. If you are uncomfortable then a change of address is needed.

Here is also a thread by Pmalek you can read through get some measures on attacks like this

Yes, it is very difficult to avoid something like this, especially when your wallet address has been flagged by them. personally, I also have quite a lot of spam tokens in my wallet. The only way to avoid that is to replace your wallet with another wallet, or you can just ignore them. I quite believe that people tend to ignore such tokens in their wallets.

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Quote from: Rengga Jati on September 29, 2023, 05:38:44 PM

Quote from: woobid on September 25, 2023, 09:34:13 AM

Hi, please tell me, I have information that my wallet (BNB Smart Chain) has 9 tokens stored on it. Of them 2 tokens are normal: BNB and LUNA, the other tokens were sent to me by scammers. And now they are stored on my wallet. How can I get rid of them? How can I stop such "left" tokens from being sent to me? What do you do with such tokens? I tried to see these tokens through PancakeSwap and Trust Wallet, but they are not displayed there.

This happens very often and it's not just you. Have you ever shared your wallet address? If so, they actually sent it to you on purpose, they could be part of the scammers. Because there are lots of tokens like that that are sent to private wallets. And unfortunately there is no way to remove them and stop them from sending such tokens again. If they want to, then they will do it again. Maybe it could be different people or the same person. And this happens not only on BSC wallets but also ERC20 and others. Just be patient, let them be and ignore them even though they are a bit disturbing to the view and sometimes they cover the original tokens that we have because there are so many of them.

Even if you have never shared that address, as long as you have received some money in it and it has been seen by the miners and included in a block on the blockchain that is more than enough for those scammers to target you, especially if they think you have a high enough amount of money, still the best defense against those scam tokens is to simply ignore them, as any attempt to interact with them may cause you to make a mistake and lose your coins.

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Quote from: EL MOHA on September 25, 2023, 09:45:40 AM

This is called address poisoning according to Faisal2202. It is method used by scammers to probably monitor the address and it is hard to stop this kind of attack because you can not stop people from sending you coins or tokens. If you are uncomfortable then a change of address is needed.

Here is also a thread by Pmalek you can read through get some measures on attacks like this

According to the given link, address poisoning is not to monitor our address activity but rather to make us commit a mistake by copying an almost identical address and sending the fund to that token. Others are just a lure to make us commit a mistake by accessing the site of the spam token and connecting our wallet holding our tokens to give them access to our wallet address and hack us of our holdings.

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Quote from: woobid on September 25, 2023, 09:34:13 AM

Hi, please tell me, I have information that my wallet (BNB Smart Chain) has 9 tokens stored on it. Of them 2 tokens are normal: BNB and LUNA, the other tokens were sent to me by scammers. And now they are stored on my wallet. How can I get rid of them? How can I stop such "left" tokens from being sent to me? What do you do with such tokens? I tried to see these tokens through PancakeSwap and Trust Wallet, but they are not displayed there.

This happens very often and it's not just you. Have you ever shared your wallet address? If so, they actually sent it to you on purpose, they could be part of the scammers. Because there are lots of tokens like that that are sent to private wallets. And unfortunately there is no way to remove them and stop them from sending such tokens again. If they want to, then they will do it again. Maybe it could be different people or the same person. And this happens not only on BSC wallets but also ERC20 and others. Just be patient, let them be and ignore them even though they are a bit disturbing to the view and sometimes they cover the original tokens that we have because there are so many of them.

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I simply ignore them think that is the best thing to do .I have so many of those scam tokens in my wallet some of them are even listed on pancakeswap so that when you try to sell them all your funds will be stolen. Anyone into crypto has to learn to protect their funds from those scammers.

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Ignore with all spam or scam token are receiving in your wallet, during not accepted for approving or swap with spam token your wallet secure and don't take serious when any unknow coins landed in your wallet. Usually Polygon and BSC Scan spam coins easily land to our wallet after making transaction between sending coin, receiving coin or make swap coins.
Have been last several years many scam or spam token are receiving in our wallet and seems the scammer not stop yet for sending it because they don't pay highest fees with network Polygon or BSC Scan. If won't with all spam token landed in your wallet, you have make secure and private wallet for saving coins only and not making any transaction yet.

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Quote from: bittick on September 28, 2023, 06:36:10 PM

Quote from: abel1337 on September 28, 2023, 01:11:56 PM

Leave that alone. There's nothing to gain if you interact with it and there's a chance that you can get hacked if you are unlucky enough. Don't be blinded by tokens that has a fake value that appears on your wallet, most of the time those are scam tokens. I had these useless tokens that were sent to me by random people, I abandoned my old wallet before that has so many useless tokens including those shitcoins that I didn't intend to be stuck on my wallet for years of using it. Better be safe than sorry.

its really confusing dealing with these scam token in general, if we try to get rid of it we might get hacked, and if we just keep it there untouched it will become eyesore, alas thats just how it is with cryptocurrencies.
too many scam tokens created and quite literally infestating like a parasite in our wallet but there's nothing we can do.

I think it's better to be safe as an eyesore in the wallet rather than taking the risk of getting rid of them which could lead to a hack, personally I have plenty of those worthless tokens in my ERC myetherwallet such I was even thinking of abandoning the wallet unfortunately nothing can be done to dispose them off I believe wallet makers should establish or create an easier means of getting rid of them without any harm to the wallet or better still create a spam folder where those worthless spam tokens can be transferred to without being visible with the real tokens.

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