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Hey guys, for the past 4 days now I have been receiving strange TRC10 tokens in a Trust Wallet where I kept my Tron-based USDT and TRX, about 5 of them now. Is it something I should be worried about? Please I need a response if I need to transfer out my funds and create a new wallet to store them.

you are feeling worried about your funds and you can try to create a new wallet and transfer all of your funds from the old wallet to the new wallet but as long as you are not revealing or giving your phasephrase and then you must be safe. It looks like an airdrop token.

Yeah, I initially suspected them to be airdrop tokens, but coming in all at once within 3-4 days made me start being suspicious of foul play.

Those are shit coins do not get bothered, the same is also happening with others too. Just ignore them and nothing will happen. These things are quite frequent for Tron and Ethereum based tokens. In general, these tokens are airdrops and most of them do not have any USD value.

No need to worry dude. I have experienced the same incident.
It was just a useless coin that was discarded on purpose.
But my advice if you are worried, you better create a new wallet. To be safer and your worries resolved

Thanks guys for the words. I will just chill out and let the tokens be.

I have seen that happen in waves wallet, where you will receive unknown tokens with no value attached to it, samething have been experienced in ERC wallets and now Tron as well, therefore since they have no value just overlook them and pretend as if they are not there and since you are using like Trust wallet, then you can actually hide them from showing, hence so far your private keys and so on are kept safe, your assets are secured. However, many people are always skeptical and anxious of their funds and assets, therefore if that is the case with you, you can actually create a new wallet and transfer everything to the new wallet, while securing your details.

There is nothing to be worried about, that's how Tron network works, even if you have 5 pieces of Tron coins in your wallet you will receive new tokens as Airdrops, this is legal and official, you won't receive any if your Tron wallet is empty, I have different Tron wallets that's how I was able to find out

I'm kinda surprised that many people don't know about this, there is rewards for holding Tron coins in your wallet, that's you will get free airdrop tokens every once in a while, the higher the Tron coins you have in your wallet the higher the airdrop tokens you will earn, some will be shitcoins for sure but not all of them, there are few you will be able to sell, that is if you have enough

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As long as you are sure that your wallet is 100% secured, then you can safely ignore those. No one can do anything (other than annoy you) to your funds by send you random tokens. I guess those are spam transactions. Like others said, they are probably trying to promote their shit tokens. They are mass spamming those tokens to others wallets and hope that they will look up those tokens, be interested and invest in those. But you shouldn't. Look at those token names "UnicSwap". Are they trying to copy uniswap or something?

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Oh didn't know that. Why would someone want those shitty airdrops?

Nope, it's not something you should be afraid of. It's just a randomly airdropped worthless tokens. I used to observe the same thing a few years ago with my Waves wallet. Those were airdropped to me from the Waves community for merely hodling the Waves token. I never got around understanding how to redemn those tokens because it was either the tokens didn't exist on any exchange or they were worth nothing. Perhaps, that's the same situation with you now. I don't think it's a hack building up.

Sometimes some of these tokens are sent, and then you cannot convert them to dollar.
which is often sent on central platforms, that means that you will lose your identity and may not get that money.
Some tokens are sent to you when you log in to a website or platform.

A large part of it aims to know your privacy, so remember no one is sending money for free.
Transfer your money to another account.

It's a shame that I don't have access to a old Tron wallet of mine, I used to hold 130,000 TRON coins and holding this amount of Tron in my wallet have fetched me few dollars more through Airdrops, the trick is if you own large amount of Tron some of those Airdrops will worth it, might be 10$, 20$ value worth of tokens, I sold some and some never get listed on exchange

I also face the same problem but I understand that these kind of garbage tokens often comes in tron wallets so you mustn't not be worried about it, just avoid them if you feel comfortable to create new wallet then you should do so after all we mustn't compromise with the security.

Wow! That's a lot of stack in there. You should do all you can to recover that. 130k worth of Tron could be worth more than a Lamborghini in future. It's the same way early adopters lost a great deal of their cheaply purchased Bitcoin. Now a whole lot of them regret not securing or being serious with their wallets' security.

What would scammers do if they airdropped tokens to you, nothing. Except you meant hackers. And that can only get you easily if there are malware somewhere in a link they ask you to click. Other than that, airdrops don't make anyone vulnerable.

In my opinion, it is normal for tokens to enter our wallet without knowing the source. I also experience this sometimes, so there is nothing for you
to worry about. As long as we keep the phase pharase properly, our wallet will be safe and fine. In my opinion there is a hide feature that can be
used if we are disturbed by the incoming tokens suddenly. This is usually the promotion of several projects by randomly sending airdrops.

If you continue to receive tokens I don't think it will be a problem because it's like an airdrop, something that is at least worrying is when your funds are lost gradually or all at once, then of course that becomes something you have to overcome. All options go back to yourself because there is a lot of input you get, but if I were you then to be honest, I would personally accept it as long as it's safe and doesn't deduct anything on my main funds in my wallet.

if you are participating in airdrops, that won't make any suspicious. You'll be lucky to have those but much lucky if they have a market value.
Want to know if that is tradable already?

Anyway, that was really surprising but you don't need to worry about it. What makes you worry is when you can see a cashout from your account to an unknown wallet address because this means that someone is in control of your wallet. Until not seeing this, it is just fine.

It's normal to a wallet with own blockchain like TRX, ETH, Waves, EOS and many blockchain project. It's easy to create new token smart contract there and usually they are doing airdrop to all wallet that contains the native token of that particular blockchain. There is nothing to worry about this airdrops, Just don't put your paraphrase on scam phishing app.

I also experienced that and suddenly there were many types of tokens in my TRC20 wallet, even though I never joined any airdrops but no need to worry maybe it's just small airdrop for people who have trx in their wallet.

I have received the same tokens like you and i just ignore it as it's airdrop token. there's no need to feel worry whether it will be giving very bad impact for your wallet. It gives nothing and it will not be a threat for you.
Just keep your privatekey safely and you will be safe.
It's not only happening in TRC but ethereum network too.

You shouldnt worried as long as you keep the pasphrase and key in safe place. Its just a random airdrop to your wallets and its relatively safe for your wallet. If it disturb you, i think u can option to unseen that random token in trust wallet.

Its good that you brought your observation about receiving some unfamiliar tokens into your wallet to notice of this forum members and I believed majorities of the comments allayed your fears and suspicion, I hope other newbies who had similar experience will have a sign of relief now, although those tokens might be worthless now you just hodl them who knows maybe one or two might have value when listed in the nearest future.

There were some people creating the spam tokens to be distributed into the all of the TRC20 wallet. That being said if those tokens were spam token and it will not steal or anything related to the criminal activity. it looks like OP has got his answer.
It's happening with almost all of the blockchain with ability for the tokenization purpose.

I don't have the same problems as you. But for a long time, and during the past day, I traded with a handful of TRX and got a token called Tofu10.
That curiosity led me to search for the truth and it's a good match for the guaranteed TRX vs ETH match. So it is safe.
If you do come across it, you can count on it.
https://www.tofudefi.com/ (https://www.tofudefi.com/)

maybe because you are new here you are a little worried when you get token spam and you don't know, actually they are not a threat to our wallet and won't steal anything from there so just leave them there

Necrobumping this thread.

I keep receiving as well TRC10 tokens on my Tronlink wallet and it keeps getting more and more everytime I get a new transaction. I don't know if there some kind of DEX to swap this tokens but I doubt if there was, am I right?

Exactly. I have been noticing the same thing with my Tronlink wallet too and I immediately recognized that these are airdrops and as you said, all of them do not have $ value to them including most recently some thousands of NFTs but will a really low $ value in cents  ;D

Well... token spamming is a well known issue in the cryptocurrency sector. While I was participating in various bounty campaigns during 2017-18, I might have received around two dozen different tokens from these campaigns. But I received at least 50-60 spam tokens in my wallet during this period (almost all of them are completely worthless). The spammers farm ERC-20 and TRC-20 wallet addresses from the spreadsheets and then send their spam (i.e promotional) tokens to these addresses. I mostly ignore them. But after a while, it gets difficult to search for the good tokens.

Thats true, its normal if you're holding a token of that particular blockchain.

I also have experience on that matter with my trust wallet and it doesnt bother me.

As long as you're not disclosing your paraphrase then there's nothing to worry.

I envy you for having such trouble. My tron wallet is not have a single coin. How I wish someone could send coins to my wallet as well, even junk tokens. Forgive me, OP, i was just kidding. As long as your keys aren't compromised, there's nothing to worry about. If it's been leaked, your coins are no longer in your wallet. So ignore it.

There's no need to worry about this issue either, getting unfamiliar tokens in wallets across platforms is not a hassle. But just to be sure, if you're not sure about your usage behavior, create a new one and transfer money into it.

You are right, I have received tons of such tokens in my wave wallet since 2017 and back then I use to think someday they will have some monetary value to them  ;D but I guess not because most of them are still in the with no value. I don't think there is anything to worry about OP as long as your login details are safe as many have also mentioned.

this means that you do not need to fill your head with any tokens other than trx

I also received 20+ TRC-10 Coins in the past few days. At first, I was worried who & why someone sending me token with popular coin names even I never heard about those coins that they are TRC-10 based as well So I thought some hackers trying to hack me but I simply ignore all the coins even that has not worth a single penny but little bit afraid too So I am planning to create the new one.

it doesn't seem like it's anything out of the ordinary. for a long time, it seems that every wallet used for TRX transactions has a strange list of TRC token transactions. they are suddenly in our wallet and of course, they will not be able to sell us.
It's been a long time, actually, but no one really made a fuss about it. it's like a scam token in our ERC wallet.

Yes, it's a good solution instead of having to hesitate on a wallet that we've used, but for me it's not a problem that needs to be discussed because it is a very common thing for wallet users.

leaving it alone wouldn't be a problem either. I myself also have some TRC tokens in the Trust wallet. even when I use safepal new wallet and do TRX coin transactions I also get a new TRC token. sometimes also BTT.