Topic: What to do with spam and scam tokens on my wallet? - page 4. (Read 673 times)
I assume this will happen in the future because two years ago I also received some random tokens out of nowhere on my Binance wallet and I wondered how I ended up getting that huge amount of tokens, but when I realized something was wrong and saw what this is all about, I completely ignored those tokens and resume to my usual routine trading and playing NFT games back then. I guess just because our wallet addresses have been displayed in the free NFTs and like it, others also took advantage by listing them and selling them to the scammers to send us those tokens which are obviously lures for us to bite their traps. so it's better to ignore it and don't bother about it because until now, it has been there in my wallet and I haven't done anything about it.
Such tokens come not only in your wallet but in all of our wallets. These are not swappable to any Dex. These can be swapped to their own phishing sites. And if you go to swap on these phishing sites, your wallet will be hacked. So never go to swap these tokens. I never click on these tokens in my wallet.
Remove any tokens that you suspect to be scams from your wallet. It's possible that one day you might visit a website that offers those tokens for sale, and that very website could be fraudulent. It could potentially gain access to and execute transactions on your wallet.
quite ironic, the act of removing the coin from your wallet will instead make you lose your asset because thats really what those scammers want you to do.just ignore these scam tokens, majority of wallet nowadays have option to just ignore these scam token therefore you actually don't need to do anything.
Remove any tokens that you suspect to be scams from your wallet. It's possible that one day you might visit a website that offers those tokens for sale, and that very website could be fraudulent. It could potentially gain access to and execute transactions on your wallet.
I think i should tell you this, any attempt to transact or to talk of moving that scam coin out from that wallet automatically grant the malware bot permission to invade and steal all token on that wallet. The best you can do is to remove all your coin from that wallet leaving only that scam coin if you constantly transact with that wallet there is every possibility that one day mistakenly you might out of trying to meet up with time forget yourself and transact that coin and if that happens, your coin are all gone. So the best alternative to avoid such coin is to remove all your from that wallet to another to be on the safe side. Do not make the mistake of transacting or moving that scam coin if you see them on your wallet. 
Simply disregard such spam/shit coins. We cannot prevent them from entering our wallets. We are all facing this issue, and everyone is encountering these unwanted coins in their wallets. The key takeaway is that we should not connect our wallets to these spam coins for selling purposes, as there is a high risk of the wallet being hacked. Generally, we should be cautious and avoid connecting our wallets to any coins that we do not have knowledge of or have not purchased to ensure safety.
Very well, if we're not allowed to transact with these fraudulent tokens, would separating the balances be a more viable option? For instance, in a BSC wallet, there are both BNB tokens and these spam tokens. Now, I intend to create a new BSC wallet and transfer the BNB from the wallet containing these spam tokens to the newly created one. There won't be any interaction with the spam tokens. Is that a secure approach?
My sole intention is to differentiate between the tokens I genuinely use and those that are considered junk. So, at the very least, I need to have two wallets for this filtering process, where one wallet's address is publicized, and the other remains undisclosed.
My sole intention is to differentiate between the tokens I genuinely use and those that are considered junk. So, at the very least, I need to have two wallets for this filtering process, where one wallet's address is publicized, and the other remains undisclosed.
These are the solutions you can try out for that.
1. Ignore it
2. Hide the scam tokens.
1. Ignore it
2. Hide the scam tokens.
I don't personally recommend this. These tokens were being sent by the scammers for a reason, as long these tokens are in your wallet, you are most probably under their radar. So, if you knew your being targeted by the scammers, it's better to move to another wallet and permanently leave that address, because if you keep using the same address, chances are you're going to lose some assets without you knowing especially when theres a lot of aciltivities within that address and the stored assets are pretty much attractive to the scammer already, you'd be in danger for sure.
Ignore it and within a short period of time they will get deleted from your wallet. Thanks to the security level of our wallet
What they probably mean is that spam coins make their wallet look very dirty with spam coins. I am also very disturbed by the existence of spam coins like this, and plus it is a fraudulent coin that could hack our wallet if we don't do it on purpose. unintentionally, at least Etherscan can add a new feature for users to close spam coins so they cannot be seen by users.
Don't do anything about them, just ignore. You may change address but still scam/spam tokens appear there as well, so it's futile to constantly change address too.
I have hundreds of them, by trying to get rid of them, you merely get into jaws of scammers.
I have hundreds of them, by trying to get rid of them, you merely get into jaws of scammers.
These are the solutions you can try out for that.
1. Ignore it
2. Hide the scam tokens.
1. Ignore it
2. Hide the scam tokens.
I don't personally recommend this. These tokens were being sent by the scammers for a reason, as long these tokens are in your wallet, you are most probably under their radar. So, if you knew your being targeted by the scammers, it's better to move to another wallet and permanently leave that address, because if you keep using the same address, chances are you're going to lose some assets without you knowing especially when theres a lot of aciltivities within that address and the stored assets are pretty much attractive to the scammer already, you'd be in danger for sure.
This is absolutely the right thing to do mate. Leaving that wallet to another would be very much safer than to continue with that same wallet. Creating a new wallet would keep you safe when you remove your token from that malware infested wallet to the new wallet. The presence of the other scam coin would not threaten your wallet anymore as the possibility or tendency of interacting with those scam coin is no more. Constant activities on wallet sometimes causes one to possibly make mistakes which is very much dangerous and if any error is made by interacting with the scam coin, automatically, the scammer has gained access through the malware bot to empty your wallet for you which you would have no knowledge about when the process is going on.
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.
I know it can be an eyesore to have those tokens in your wallets, however as long as you do not interact with them you should be fine, now if you really want to not have them in your wallet anymore you will have to send your coins to another address, however this is only a temporary solution as nothing is stopping those scammers to send you more coins to that address, and unfortunately this means that most likely you will just waste your money on fees by trying to avoid them, which explains why a great deal of the community has chosen to ignore them as their default reaction. 
You cannot stop someone from sending tokens to you, but you can limit the spread of your address by not posting then on every airdrop you join or in random websites, this does not solve the problem as addresses are public, but it can limit the possibility.
When the address poisoning scam hit the Tron network, I started receiving small amounts of coins from scammers but I never participated in any airdrops or posted my address in public. Scammers are monitoring the blockchain. If they notice significant activity on some addresses, they will attempt their scams to trick those users.However to some extent, not putting your address out there on every unverified platform will help reduce the possibility.
These are the solutions you can try out for that.
1. Ignore it
2. Hide the scam tokens.
1. Ignore it
2. Hide the scam tokens.
I don't personally recommend this. These tokens were being sent by the scammers for a reason, as long these tokens are in your wallet, you are most probably under their radar. So, if you knew your being targeted by the scammers, it's better to move to another wallet and permanently leave that address, because if you keep using the same address, chances are you're going to lose some assets without you knowing especially when theres a lot of aciltivities within that address and the stored assets are pretty much attractive to the scammer already, you'd be in danger for sure.
These are the solutions you can try out for that.
1. Ignore it
2. Hide the scam tokens.
3. Don't interact with the scam token like swap or bridging. If you have interacted already, your wallet is gone. So you have to create a new wallet. That will be the best solution.
1. Ignore it
2. Hide the scam tokens.
3. Don't interact with the scam token like swap or bridging. If you have interacted already, your wallet is gone. So you have to create a new wallet. That will be the best solution.
It's simple, create a new wallet. The one with which you have already tried everything continue to use it for the same things, for all new projects and untested things, airdrops, and all other drops... And with the new wallet, try to be much more careful and use it only for tested things.
It's good (and smart/wise) to have more than one wallet anyway...
It's good (and smart/wise) to have more than one wallet anyway...
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.
Quite simply, these scam tokens cannot be eliminated, and I do not recommend ever interacting with their contracts. Just look at them as if you did not see them, and there is no problem in leaving them idle in your wallet. Do not pay attention to any token sent to your wallet without your intervention and knowledge. Also, it is not possible to stop receiving rug pull or pump and dump tokens that scammers send to you and thousands of wallets. There is a big chance that you will not receive these coins if your wallet address is private and not visible to the public or if you do not use it to participate in airdrops and bounties. As for me, I have more than 20 scam tokens in my wallet, and I have never thought about trying to swap/exchange them because if I did, they could steal the assets in my wallet and my fees. It is a considerable risk, and nothing valuable comes from nowhere.
In addition, if you add a fraudulent currency contract to Pancakeswap, you will find a security audit of the token contract, which may make you avoid it. Still, you should not rely on this audit to a large extent, and the solution is to ignore these scam tokens completely.
I'm already a Hero Member (going Legendary), but now I can say that "ranks don't matter when it comes to knowledge" because I don't know that term "address poisoning". If only I didn't read this post, I won't know what would be the main reason behind these scam tokens being distributed. Thanks for sharing this, and the links.
I would say this is part of the beauty of this forum, you learn vital things for free from people who go have vast knowledge or experience on the subject matter. Even I wasn’t much aware of this scam not until I was going through that thread and found out what it is called.
So in short, they're just sending tokens just to monitor the address? If that's the case then it isn't harmful then as long as you will not give money, and personal information to them, and not download anything suspicious online?
Change of address is the best solution with this one if you find it annoying, but I guess just ignore it would be an another option as well.
Exactly you would have to be careful with your dealings from that wallet and any one connected with it, scammers can take advantage of just anything and we all know they would certainly only get access to it through phishing attack,
Just as you said if one is not comfortable then he can just change wallet. But even if you change it you can not send directly to this new address from the old one because it will still link. Rather you would have to spend it through exchange and then probably back to the new Wallet. But overall you do not need to panic if one is not doing anything wrong
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
I'm already a Hero Member (going Legendary), but now I can say that "ranks don't matter when it comes to knowledge" because I don't know that term "address poisoning". If only I didn't read this post, I won't know what would be the main reason behind these scam tokens being distributed. Thanks for sharing this, and the links.Here is also a thread by Pmalek you can read through get some measures on attacks like this
So in short, they're just sending tokens just to monitor the address? If that's the case then it isn't harmful then as long as you will not give money, and personal information to them, and not download anything suspicious online? Like what @EL MOHA said, there's nothing that you can do with that OP because you can't control the scammers to send you tokens.
Change of address is the best solution with this one if you find it annoying, but I guess just ignore it would be an another option as well.
Of course, if they annoy you, you can send them to another wallet, but this will not help you dramatically, since after a while you will receive similar tokens again.
You will just be wasting the native coins of the underlying network on transaction fees by moving them from your address. Mostly youll notice they show some value on etherscan or any explorer but thats a fake and you need to confirm the actual value on monitoring sites such as coingecko or where they are being traded to be sure.
I once received an airdrop of some project I never heard of to my ETH address worth several hundred dollars. The issue with those tokens was they were locked by a smart contract. They were traded on an exchange, but you couldn't move them unless you underwent KYC and the developers unlocked them on your address manually. After some time, the value of those tokens fell to zero. You cannot stop someone from sending tokens to you, but you can limit the spread of your address by not posting then on every airdrop you join or in random websites, this does not solve the problem as addresses are public, but it can limit the possibility.
When the address poisoning scam hit the Tron network, I started receiving small amounts of coins from scammers but I never participated in any airdrops or posted my address in public. Scammers are monitoring the blockchain. If they notice significant activity on some addresses, they will attempt their scams to trick those users.
You can't delete them, hiding useless tokens is one option you can do so that they don't damage your view when opening the wallet. Your wallet address is already held by the token sender, you cannot stop them from sending tokens you don't want. Just hope that one day they send you a token that has a price.
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