What to do with spam and scam tokens on my wallet? - page 5.

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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.

There's absolutely nothing you can do about those unwanted tokens than to stay away from them. Your wallet address is refer to as the public keys that's visible to all and anyone can send token or coins into your public address with or without your permission. The tokens are not harmful and can not affect the real tokens you have as long as you don't interact with them. The moment you attempt to interact with them and mistakenly grant them access to your funds, that's when it becomes harmful and can steal from your wallet in disguise as gas fees. As far as you stay away from them, you're absolutely safe.

If you did not work for it, then you have no reason to attempt to sell it. Nobody is sharing free coins as you use to see in the internet. It's attempt to lure you and fall for their tricks. Any questionable coins in your wallet should be ignored.

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Quote from: Natalim on September 25, 2023, 05:59:55 PM

The best thing to do is to have an offline wallet and transfer all valuable coins there but yes, it cost you some money to do it.

His better I use my money no matter how much is going to cost me, my people mannerly said that the amount of money used to stop war is not up to one percent of what the war will destroy. Even though I will use all of my savings to save my future is better, this has happened to me severally scammers stolen fund from my wallet which I keep on creating new wallet all the time. I don't temper with spam or scam token because I had ever did it before but it was not on my favour rather was against me, because I lose all my bnb that I had in my wallet then.

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Ignore it and within a short period of time they will get deleted from your wallet. Thanks to the security level of our wallet

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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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Don't immediately move to exchange those tokens because some tokens are deliberately made to deceive the people who get them. I once got an airdrop token for free, but when I went to the trouble of filling in fees and so on, I couldn't exchange it, it turns out the token was deliberately programmed just to suck up the fee, making tokens now very easy, so you have to be careful with freebies tokens that go into your personal wallet.

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OP, I will advise you to not try swap those tokens because they are dust attack on your wallet. Scammers/hackers send them to random wallets attached with bot to monitor the wallet for transactions and automatically drain the wallet when ever those tokens are transacted upon. I was wondering how they got your wallet address to have sent you those tokens or possibly you must have registered an airdrop with the wallet or a whitelist exercise because that is how they come in contact with wallets.

If you can, transfer your main coin from that wallet so as to avoid any unforseen circumstances.

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Quote from: Natalim on September 25, 2023, 05:59:55 PM

Everyone has that kind of experience but what I did is to let these shitcoins live in my wallet and ignore them. For me, it is just a sort of crypto collection, we can't rid of them. You don't need to bother seeing them in your wallet but rather accept that this is expected to happen especially if your wallet address has already been exposed to these scammers. The best thing to do is to have an offline wallet and transfer all valuable coins there but yes, it cost you some money to do it.

Why even bother on the shitcoins that will never get value, and they are not available for swap even if you attempt to swap them or dust them to BNB, the best thing to do is forget abut them and if you change address, they will still send some of such coins to your address; therefore it is normal and there is nothing to fear about.

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Everyone has that kind of experience but what I did is to let these shitcoins live in my wallet and ignore them. For me, it is just a sort of crypto collection, we can't rid of them. You don't need to bother seeing them in your wallet but rather accept that this is expected to happen especially if your wallet address has already been exposed to these scammers. The best thing to do is to have an offline wallet and transfer all valuable coins there but yes, it cost you some money to do it.

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

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.

The coins are in your wallet, but they are not affecting you in any way, so it’s better you just leave them there. The only way you can get rid of coins is to send them to another random wallet, but I think it’s of no use. If you send the current once to a random wallet, you are still going to receive more later, so are you going to keep on sending them to a random wallet? Just ignore them since they are not affecting your main coins.

Don’t try to swap any random coin you see in your wallet, since those coins are scam coins. If you try to swap some, scammers might end up having access to your wallet, and they will drain all the coins in your wallet. When you try to swap some, a gas fee will be deducted, and you won’t be able to swap the coin. The gas fee that will be deducted is going to the scammer.

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

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.

• You can only get rid of a token by sending them out which you do but wat to do. The best option is to ignore them and if you use a wallet that supports locking of inputs, use it,

• 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.

• You don't do anything with them,

• Whatever you do, do not send them to your exchange account or to any other wallets you own.

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Nothing actually spam tokens are nothing but useless tokens on your wallet. This is inevitable since these scammers are sending tokens on those active wallets with different transactions on network. 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. Even you created new wallet and send active eth or L1 these are following those wallets just better to completely ignore it especially if you sure you didnt work or bought on those tokens.

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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.

You can't prevent these coins from being sent to your wallet, so the best solution is to ignore them. 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.

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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?

You can not get rid of them my own wallet was full of them, and still is, and all I can do is ignore them because they are not harmful but become harmful when someone tries to sell them by connecting their wallets on some swap and end up losing the access of the wallet. So, don't try to sell those tokens, doesn't matter how valuable they are, in the end, they are not useful instead full of viruses which might become a reason for compromisation to your wallet.

Just ignore them, and don't do anything with them.

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

How can I stop such "left" tokens from being sent to me?

You can not stop them, because even if you would block a wallet to not receive assets from but wallet creation is easy and free for the hackers and they can try the attack from a different wallet, then you have to block them all. But there are many wallets like the mixin wallet, which had an option to not receive funds from unknown addresses.

But Mixin currently got hacked, so I won't ask you to join them.

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

What do you do with such tokens? I tried to see these tokens through PancakeSwap and Trust Wallet, but they are not displayed there.

These tokens are not tradeable, instead, they can take you to the swaps, like when you will search for them you will see their listing on some swap exchange, and will connect your wallet their to get rid of the funds, but you will also lose access to the wallet and end up losing your own real money.

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You can't stop anyone from sending coins and tokens to your wallet address, that's just how it works. There is also no need to get rid of them. Your wallet doesn't have a limited capacity that can get filled up, which would require that you empty it. Just leave them be. Some wallets and blockchain explorers have settings that allow you to disable scam tokens or small transactions under a minimum balance. That will make them invisible in your transaction history, perhaps even in your portfolio overview. Check if such features exist in your wallet. If not, don't lose sleep over it.

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

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This was already a thing a long time ago, probably most of the wallets have this kind of scam tokens, I mean anyone can easily send some tokens to your address easily probably this was done by a bot sending most of these tokens to our wallet, I mean they can easily create a new token with a small number of funds for sure, I dont know how they do this scams but I heard a lot of things on getting hack or a lot of cases of wallet-draining the moment they do something on this token.

So it is better to just ignore this token since you can't really do anything on this token since it doesnt really have any kind of value so you can really sell it on the market, hackers have a lot of ways to get your cryptocurrency on your wallet, so just dont move this token and completely ignore it so that you could avoid getting hack. It might be an eyesore for most of the wallet users but it's better done getting hacked. I mean there are a lot of this on the market so we can't really do anything about it, I think the wallet itself is the one that needed to do something about it, allowing this shitty token to circulate.

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

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.

Just like everybody suggest, Just ignore those tokens since its useless anyway. You can’t see it on your wallet either unless you import their smart contract address manually to your wallet assets.

It's almost impossible to stop receiving these kind of tokens since they are using smart contracts to automatically airdrop all the wallets that holding certain token such as BNB and other popular blockchain tokens. Blockchain displays all the token holder address so there's no way to avoid them unless you don't hold any tokens on your wallet address most of the time then your wallet will be safe from spam tokens. Avoid holding native blockchain tokens for a long time.

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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.

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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

You are 100% right about it, scammers will always found a way or will create new wallet to send some useless tokens or small amounts to your wallet address, so that you would become a victim to them. But the best way is to simply ignore them. Many will tell you to burn them or whatever, but they are useless and also very vulnerable, most of them must take you to a burning platform.

Which might also be a product of the same scammers, and to burn then you have to connect your wallet. And that's too risky, so simply ignore those tokens and hide them if you can so that you don't have to see them anymore. Never interact with such tokens and be active and educated of the current scams and attacks are ongoing in the market.

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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?

These tokens are attempt of scammer. clearly you can see the tokens which are scammed are using famous token name and also each token name is their phising website. The aim of these tokens is to decieve wallet owner , when someone see that he got mebox(mobox) and other tokens he will definitely try to swap and for this he will open website and all his fund will be vanished.

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How can I stop such "left" tokens from being sent to me? What do you do with such tokens?

you cannot stop , the only way is to just ignore these tokens. I am using Safepal wallet where no scam tokens automatically add.

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I tried to see these tokens through PancakeSwap and Trust Wallet, but they are not displayed there.

Don't try this,why one will send you free token? Sometimes these tokens listed in pancakeswap and you will loss only fee there because no liquidity will be added so kindly only swap your own tokens you deposited or got from bounty/ airdrop (you joined by self). Always check contract address of each tokens and then match with real token, i hope you will never be decieved.

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Quote from: albert0bsd on September 25, 2023, 09:46:15 AM

Just ignore them spam tokens or change of wallet.

Do not interact with these unwanted tokens in any way, such as trading, transferring, or approving transactions related to them. Interacting with these tokens may lead to further losses or complications.

If the unwanted tokens are causing significant issues and you are concerned about your wallet's security, you may want to consider creating a new wallet.

Search for a wallet software that allow you to hide those tokens

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

Quote from: Odohu on September 25, 2023, 09:45:09 AM

Anyone who have been in crypto for a year now will most likely have a share of those scam tokens. I think they have bots that monitor when wallets are dropped in forums, airdrop website or giveaway threads. If this is not how they get the wallets, then I'm a kind of confused how they get the wallets that they send thousands of transactions at random.

The purpose of these phishing wallets is definitely to steal your funds. Some are even listed in PCS and when you try to sell it, they will gain access to your wallet or drain your BNB as gas fees after you authorise the transaction.

As the blockchain technology is evolving, scammers are also upgrading their skills because thieves hide under something genuine to unleash their wisckness. We just have to be careful!

Thank you guys so much. You're cool! I'm starting to like this forum!

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