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Be careful out there newbies and all crypto fans, a few minutes ago I made a few transactions in BNB from one wallet to another and I got this

https://i.imgur.com/D7yUfD6.jpeg

I was like, OMG 😱 it's a free APE Tokens, but then one APE is 12$ on binance exchange, how can someone send me 350 pieces for me? That's where I became even more curious, I did some Contract Address findings and I noticed this

https://i.imgur.com/oK1pM9T.jpeg

As you can see I'm not the only winner of these 350 APE tokens, this is where I started to get angry, saying to myself that why can't it just be only me?  ;D (kidding) Lol, as I proceed in my search I ended up with this website link.

https://i.imgur.com/ypzc5dC.jpeg

If this isn't a scam what could it be anyway?


The trick is every receiver will try to sell and that's when you will be f**ked up, in this crypto haven nothing comes for free, you have to work your ass up to make some gains and rewards, go after only what you sweat and worked for.

Which APE it was? I have searched on CMC and found 8 different APE which is confusing.

https://talkimg.com/images/2023/05/16/blob5d7a5f1d2493463c.jpeg

Looks like a scam to me, the scammer generates a fake Apecoin tokens and send them out to all address doing transaction on BNB network, if you try to sell it will lead you to Ape-NFT.io, a fake and unsecured website.

That is a scam token for sure. If it is APENFT then their website address is apenft.org. They are on BSC, Tron and Ethereum blockchain. They one which is being traded on Binance is APE and its website address is apecoin.com. It is an erc20 token. Therefore the coin that you recieved is a scam coin.

This is a common practice on tron and BSC Blockchain. Scammers create such copy token and distribute them to random wallets. Do not fall for such scams.

Ape-NFT.io is a scam website, I visit the link and this is what I came up with

https://i.imgur.com/EPQsaPL.jpeg

As you can see the scammer use the same APECoin image meaning he is trying to fool people who can't research on their own, I'm guessing if you connect your wallet to this website your private key will be revealed to them.

I got some random free tokens in my math wallet, I suspect that they are all scam tokens, if you see them in your wallet avoid them cos someone is trying to lure you.

It's advertising.
Some known Bitcoin wallets receive dust transactions that tell a story.
The wallets on blockchains that allow smart contracts and tokens - not only on ETH - people get tokens for free, with or without impersonating other token names, but clearly containing some website link.

Scam? why would it be scam? Nobody forces you to send those tokens anywhere. And even if you send them, all you lose is probably the tx fee (and the worthless tokens).

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It can become scam if you go to that website and it asks you to enter your wallet seed. Then yes, please report it as scam (although I would avoid visiting unnecessarily unknown websites, unless you know how to do that from a virtual machine or sandbox).

Nothing is free in the world, so don't be greedy. They would be fake or real. But they won't spam you unless you share your private keys. No matter who sent this token, if it's worth some dust you may sell it. But I don't think you can do it. Likely it was the Airdrop token, projects do sometimes increase holders. But don't think a legit project will do the same. Just let them stay in your wallet. Don't take much stress for that. They won't hack your wallet by sending tokens lol.

Back to the first chapter, unless the OP gave his private key to a scam or phishing site.

In the past, token transactions like this were mostly carried out by new projects that seemed scam or non-legit just to increase the number of holders, it was not too troublesome because we could just ignore it. But I agree with you that random delivery like this is not a legitimate project especially if their tokens are quite valuable in the market. The OP could easily ignore it without worrying about a scam attempt.

The fact that it's a take token, which creates a phishing website to mimick am original platform with the intent to steal visitors details already makes it a scan attempt. Scammers don't force anyone to fall victim, they lure them in with tempting offers.
The issue is whether or not the offer of the free tokens would be enough to attract users to try and sell, in what situation they will be led on to the scam website.

To protect oneself, any unsolicited offer, by email, wallet address, SMS or any other form should be ignored.

Reflect to yourself. There is really a free airdrop of apecoin, however those only who hold their particular nft. So ask yourself, if you dont have nft for requirement why youll received a very expensive token? From there you should be suspicious on it already. No one will give a free huge money randomly and that could also lead to some bad consequence if you pursue it.

350 APE is a lot to airdrop, you already could conclude it's too good to be true. That's to reflect.
If it does have value, you will be grateful for it. But there must be none. Just be careful not to spend BNB to cash out it out, you may just learn the catch of this airdrop. Just forget about that tokens. It hasn't turned into a scam yet but it could be luring you to do something about it.

Even if its a clone APE token still you're not in any problem unless you get phished while trying to do anything with that, receiving this fake tokens are just to get your address and this is normally happens with bitcoin network which we call as dust transaction but when we receive such kind of transactions we can actually lock the address so all other address won't be exposed to the scammer but this is not same with altcoins.

Unfortunately, many people have fallen victim to this scam, I almost fell for it myself months back when I first received this kind of airdrop, I have over 20 of this kind of tokens in my wallet currently and each time I check their prices, I gives me goosebumps, but then, I never attempt to sell any of them because this is what the scammers actually want you to do, and doing this automatically gives them access to every bit of legit tokens you have in your wallet, so we must be very careful.

This kind of scams token is not common on binance smart chain alone, it's also very common on Tron network as well, and the reason is because of the cheap transaction fees on this blockchains, you will never find this kind of tokens on Ethereum blockchain where transfer fees are off the roof, they did spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on sending out the airdrops alone, so this why we don't get such airdrops on Ethereum blockchain.

Free Apecoin token doesn't come from Ape-NFT.io, have you opened this link yourself? It's a scam website and this is exactly why this scammer built this fake token, since Apecoin is giving out free tokens its more easier to deceive people using this strategy.

This is probably how I lost 96$ of a token I earned through raindrop months ago, I never bothered to sell because the price was small for the amount of the token, then later I tried to sell a free airdrop token that I dont remember hunting for, I later gave up because I just dont know how to sell, later someone sent out my 96$ worth of token, I guess this is the same.

This is just one of the many fake coins and tokens which are freely distributed to many wallets. They seem to be harmless but once you can be enticed to sell them in the exchange that is where the problem is because your other assets in your wallet can be migrating somewhere. I am not so sure how it is being done technically but maybe it got something to do with their own smart contracts...because when you do sell you are actually interacting with smart contracts of the coin or token in question. I have been telling this that wallet should have a way to deal with this...we should have an option to delete these fake tokens and coins in our wallets.

Having the consciousness that nothing is free in crypto is an added advantage. If you have not done some kind of bounty or Airdrop activities and sees some free tokens in your wallet, it should be suspicious. I have seen countless times where I would be told to claim some tokens, since I didn't work for them, I don't bother participating because nothing is free.
You can be in the process of claiming these tokens and compromise your wallet.
For tour experience, I can assure you that is a scam because there is the real APE project I know.

That's probably a dusting attack token or spam token. That created by scammer as a trap and you have become one of victim that being sent the scam token by scammers. You must always be careful and always checking the smartcontract address used by the token that being sent to your address. So many newbies are getting scammed caused by their wallet got drained by the scammers after they are trying to swap their asset.
This means if scammers are also using various trick. So many dusting attack that launched by scammers to the various crypto users.

If you receive APE token that has a value and you can sell it then be thankful to it but I am sure that no one will accidentally send you a token that has a value most you will receiving in your wallets are scam tokens that is being sent randomly to any address so be careful on visiting the site of that token and if you receive unexpected coins or coins that you are not familiar with, it is better to stay away from it.

ya.ya.yo!

Sometime the copy cat scam ape token has value caused by the developers itself were pumping it. This means if you must also try to verify that whether it has the same smartcontract that used by real ape token on CMC. You must be careful and did double check for that. So many people have become the victim from this scam token. I do know that if they are feeling greedy with it but in fact that if you are seeing the market and then you can know that easily if which was the scam project and then you will able to determine whether that was a scam token or not.
Just try to do your own research and always be careful to double check,

This is not new and most of the cryptocurrency users are aware of this scheme, someone will send you a token that has a similar Token symbol and would let you think that you received an airdrop and of course you will check the link to their fake website and might probably ask to connect your Metamask or ask for your seed phrase in short phishing site so be careful in clicking links from those coins you are receiving in your wallet.

Merely seeing this in my wallet, I have 90% confirmation it's a dust attack. The purpose is to get you to click link interact and give some approval. Don't be greedy as you know there are so many ape tokens but this looks like the recent one gotten from the airdrop. Check from cmc and compare the contract you will know its a scam token.

Spam token was not something new in the cryptocurrency. This kind of token used by scammers as a trap to the its victim to fool the victim to give approval to the scammers to steal the funds that owned by its victim. So many newbies are always getting fooled caused by they are thinking if they have got free money and they are connecting their wallet to exchange it but then scammers are draining all of their wallets.
This trick kinda old trick but that's pretty odd to see that some people are always getting trapped by this old trick.
It can be said that when people realize just to ignore the garbage token that came to their wallet and they will be fine with it.

Make sure we have to be careful because otherwise the coins in our wallets will disappear,
if suddenly there is a coin in our wallet which is not from the airdrop that we are doing, it's better to just ignore it,
Scam tokens will always be there and there will always be ways to cheat

It's easy to trace always check the contract address, the contract address is everything, legit projects will always advise you to check their contract address and it's always in the market aggregator if they are listed, and ignore these spam tokens if you do not expect to receive these tokens, scammers are good now in imitation and phishing, they know investors are learning so they have to innovate their scheme and this is a new scheme because the transaction fees on Binance and other chains are cheap.

Such things are becoming more and more common as it is easy to create coins and request access from users. Many newbies may be caught off guard by such things. Be careful and double check what it is before trading.

I think the best way to do it if someone (let's say me)  were interested in selling those suspicious tokens off would be for me to move out all my genuinely bought tokens out to another wallet first. Thereafter, I try to sell the suspicious airdropped tokens. This will be a safety measure that should work. However, on my part I've come to categorize any token I see in my wallet that I didn't buy as a scam and I obviously stay away from them. You know, if it weren't for greed to pilfer, the house rats won't be caught in traps. It's the same way I view those who make attempts to claim or sell off tokens they're sure they didn't buy. It's often a trap.

Token like that we have often known together, the emergence of a new hype token that made dust developers take advantage of the moment. The problem is if someone doesn't know then they buy the token with a lot of scattered traffic, careful is the most important thing of investment but maybe not everyone is careful.

The sophistication of the coup is becoming more evident nowadays. The desire and will to possess what belongs to the next is the motivation of these scammers but no matter the belief that each one possesses the universe does not allow success for a long time. We should be happy that along with this negative possibility, the power of inspection is growing, improving even more the defenses for high technologies and in this case for the blockchain.

I agree with the headline, there is a new lesson in the crypto world every day! It is true that in crypto there is too much of everything, OP has given one example of what can happen in the crypto world, in reality so much happens every day that one cannot follow it all!
That is why w should be careful, especially with "miraculous gains" and "too big promises", as the OP says nothing comes for free, we must work and earn from that work, as soon as something is offered that is too easy and sounds too good the red light should turn on in our heads!
Some of us learned it the hard way, we had to lose a little to learn, but whoever reads this can skip that part and know right away that you need to be very careful cause a mistake means money loss and that is not a joke!

it's actually easy to see whether the scheme coin or not in the BSC network wallet, if it has a value even though 01 cents is still worth it
if it's zero I think it's a scheme coin
Moreover, it is obtained for just free without knowing the origin we get

It's a good idea for bringing your observations into the notice of the forum members, newbies will learn from  this subtle means of tricking unsuspecting crypto enthusiasts, there are numerous tricks in which scammers devised to steal, trick and scam people, we just have to be alert and cautious of all our transactions to avoid falling into their trick, I am sure some gullible newbies will fall for this trick and in a bid to earn extra Coins they may end up losing all their hard money.

Spam attack was just a common thing this time. Double check in the smartcontract address is a must to avoid the copy cat tokens that eventually sent by scammers to the random address. I have seen so many people were also creating various thread about this problem and it seems like that the only solution to abandon it. The fact that if people are also facing the same problem like you even some have fallen into this trap and their assets got drained instantly. I just remember about the spam tokens that happened when the meme tokens have become a new trend in the past.
How many meme tokens got spammed to the random address to steal the assets.

350 Ape is 4200$  :D this is a lot for an airdrop giveaway, its not even a airdrop that you participated in, they just decide to send that to your wallet for free, I hell no! This is obviously a big red flag, the Apecoin is fake and 350 would work on the greedy people, this scammer knows what he is doing  ;D ;D ;D.

I think that mostly people aware about this kind of scam tokens that were always appearing anytime. As long as your wallet looks active and it will be sent scam token by the scammers. The only thing that needs to be remember by anyone to not try to connect or even try to do a swap the shit scam token like that to make sure if the security was safe. In my opinion if the scam tokens are very annoying for the wallet owners but the wallet owners can do nothing for that.
The fact if they can only ignore it in their wallet with the hope or migrate their legit tokens to the new address that has not yet known by the scammers

The crypto space is still full of opportunities and it is still possible to make a x100 of your initial investment withing a relatively short amount of time, if you are very lucky and invest into the right projects. That being said it is also part of the truth and the whole picture that the crypto space is also full of shillers or so called influencers that are dumping tokens that they get for free on their followers after they have shilled that token to them and of course it is also full of scams and bad people that want to steal your money.
Especially on the BSC we see a lot of scam tokens recently because the transaction fee there is really low and you can send your scam token to a lot of people without having to pay a lot of transaction fees.

Have never experienced such before, but I have read a lot of posts about this and it is a scam so you should avoid spending that tokens so you wouldn’t fall for it. Seems like it’s becoming a normal thing now because I never used to see it regularly.

Most people would definitely gall for this due to the lack of information, especially the greedy ones that are always looking for free money in the crypto market, not knowing that nothing comes for free in the market the we days. Before you get anything you would work really hard for it.. They need learn the rules and adhere to it.

And the thing is that someone might fall for it because he’s not the only one that have received that from the scammer. So, the question now is will other people who have received those tokens also reason it out like the OP did and be able to tell that this is another scam and isn’t anything legit? If they are up to ten there is likely going to be someone that might be that greedy to fall for it and thinking that the stars have shined upon them. How unlucky they would be when they finally discover it is a scam.

Well said, not all are the same in taking this kind of scam. There are greed people or unaware of this kind of

strategy coming from those scammers who will fall and engaged to what the scammers are intending to do. We can't say that
even with those many attempts that being done with this same format, everyone is already aware of these schemes.

Chances that there are still people who will try to sell and be disappointed knowing that there's none in terms of value
just a waste.

I tried to visit the site from your screenshot ape-nft.io but it seems like that address is wrong.
At any point of time you can just dig in to the smart contract to find out which nft is genuine and which is fake.
Just verify and compare it to the original smart contract and you will find out if it's fake or not.

A good lesson, so we have to be more careful in accepting anything that comes for free. it looks like a scam where it will make us fooled and confused as it is said. there are many modes of fraud that scammers do to deceive many people. for sure they will lure us very well and then they will make us lose. it's true that every day we can learn from the experiences that have happened to be more careful and better in the future. As it is said that profits in the crypto world will not come for free, it takes a process and also hard work in order to be able to manage and generate profits properly.

This is not a new thing. We already face this type of problem with several coins, and all of them are still in my wallet. When you want to sell that coin on a decentralized exchange like uniswap or pancakeswap, you can swap, but you may lose your balance because they set their contract address in a different way where they put their address and whatever transaction you are going to do, they will send you a signature, and if you approve that without checking, you may lose your wallet funds because they send a fund transfer.That is why when we go to add any new token to sell on the market, the decentralised wallet always shows a popup where they alert us about fake coin or token. That is why they always suggest taking the token contract address from the official handle of the coin or token. 

Yes, this is obvious a fake website and the good thing is that you can check if in the smart contract to see if this is fake or not.

Everything here should be taken with a grain of salt, and everyone has the responsibility to verify, verify and verify. I can't stressed that anymore, and if by chance you feel to this scammers, then its your fault for not doing your due diligence.

Although this lesson that you learned is old, there are many beginners who fall victim to this scam, anyone can create a coin in seconds and can put a name to it similar to the original coin, so you must make sure of the contract for this coin that you want to buy or sell, something similar happened to me. One of the scam projects sent me coins worth more than $10,000 as airdrops that I won for free, but I found that I could not sell them unless I paid huge fees to release them. We must be careful

Such token issuances usually happen on the bsc network. They are often sent for advertising purposes. These tokens are constantly coming to my wallet. Usually, when I trade on pancakeswap, it automatically comes to my wallet. It would be better if you do not approve the aprove transaction to such tokens. Wallet hacks can also happen. In addition, when you look at the contract sections of these tokens, users state that they are direct scams. You can be careful here. In addition, a few scammers send tokens with the same names as the existing tokens. You must be careful.

Scam tokens, things like this, are popping up more and more in this space every day. Some new users are not used to it, and they mistake it for valuables. Ask yourself if you deserve a drop of money, so be wary of anything sent to the wallet.

Usually tokens that have domains such as .io and others are dusting tokens that are ready to access your wallet when you transact with this dusting token. Your wallet is currently vulnerable to hacker attacks who can access your wallet, one solution is to replace your wallet and be careful in providing wallet data or connecting to dapps.



Logically, no one wants to give a lot of money for free, cryptocurrency is not heaven, and we must continue to be careful in carrying out cryptocurrency activities.

I experienced it also, but with another token. The method is also different from what I have encountered. At first I was excited to received free tokens worth 1k USD but then when I searched thoroughly I found out in order for you to withdraw those coins you have to trade on their exchange, for which you will be getting points in able for you to convert that coins you received. At that moment I knew something was off and just leave it on my wallet, another month had passed, the coin wasn't any value at all. If I had trade in their exchange I would've used a total of 20k USD, see what they are trying to do? Steal from you slowly and the mean thing is only that coin  is allowable for you to trade in order for you to acquire that points which you can use to withdraw those free tokens. It just means that you have to acquire more of those to get them, what a scheme they have, so be careful of that tokens that they sent you.

The thing is once you received such tokens just leave them be, do not try to send them out or trade them because this will give the scammers access to your wallet fully, I got 350 Luna tokens two days ago which has a link in the description, I knew this isn't the original Luna that we all knew, I just abandoned the wallet and move my fund to another wallet.

If i received any token that i don't know, i usually check the token contract address first.
Most of them are spam tokens, it has been sent to many holders to get attraction from the receivers.
In my opinion, we shouldn't bother those tokens because it can lead us to a scam or phishing.

looks like just a scam, tricks done by fraudsters are very diverse. the point is that we do not easily believe the free. to make money in crypto, we have to work hard. for free ones, sometimes there is an airdrop, and I often receive airdrops.