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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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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!

This is called address poisoning according to Faisal2202 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5466445.msg62829924#msg62829924). 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 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5433343.msg61556293#msg61556293) you can read through get some measures on attacks like this

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

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

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.



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


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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.   

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.
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.
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.

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.

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.

• 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's address poisoning scam.

Address poisoning scams, what is it? (https://support.metamask.io/hc/en-us/articles/11967455819035-Address-poisoning-scams)
What are Address Poisoning Scams? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5433343.0)
Save yourself from Address Poisoning Attack (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5434840.0)
Scam alert: MetaMask warns crypto users about address poisoning (https://www.binance.com/en/feed/post/158861)

You must be careful with smart contract interactions too. Revoke Smart Contract access with one of three third party sites.
How to Revoke Token Approval Following Opensea’s Latest Security Episode (https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/article/3-minute-tips-how-to-revoke-token-approval-following-opensea-s-latest-security-episode)
https://etherscan.io/tokenapprovalchecker
https://revoke.cash/
https://app.unrekt.net/

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

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.

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.

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.

You will just be wasting the native coins of the underlying network on transaction fees by moving them from your address.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.


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

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.

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... ;)

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.

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 was why I pointed out that addresses are public, meaning you can still be a victim if you never post your address on a public platform. Heck, your public key is publicly available after you make an outbound transaction and an address can be picked up if you search for it's details onna block explorer.

However to some extent, not putting your address out there on every unverified platform will help reduce the possibility.

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.

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.

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.

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.

That wallet has already been exposed to scammers and yes, many incidents happen where someone (scammer) will ask to send back their money and take a chance to scam. Ignoring would be best but must be prepared as well for what will happen next. Because even if you create a new wallet for the sake of escaping from these scammers, they can still trace the event of your transaction and catch you in a new wallet. If ever we create another wallet, better not to connect this to our old wallet.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I usually just ignore this and I have lots in my Ethereum account mostly from the ICO projects before that are either bankrupt or just mere scams in the end. Some of the coins are sent from unknown projects and I guess it's also my mistake from joining groups that I should've avoided before.
There's really nothing you can do about this, an option would be expensive to send these coins/tokens to another account but that means paying up the transaction fees. If you have loads of it then you may be spending a lot so ignoring them would be the best choice.
Another option is to create a new account and minimize the number of coins sent to you, just avoid joining Telegram groups that have something to do with cryptocurrencies. That way you can lessen the number of tokens sent to you.
This kind of problem had been more active back when airdrops were in the trend.

like many have said, if you don't mind, the only way is just to ignore these token, because there are many various ways and means that could be taken advantage of by them to drain your wallet.
and swapping it just for the sake if removing it could be one of their way therefore anyone should be careful when dealing with these token, best course of action is just to consider these scam token inexistent.

When a wallet that has started running spam coin transactions can automatically enter our wallet, you won't be the only one who gets the coins. Most wallets have started to be active. The key is to leave the trash coins in your wallet, don't touch them or connect them with dex. big danger can come quickly to eliminate the balance in the wallet. Most beginners who enter the crypto world become victims of wallet fund theft

I think every single people’s holding SCAM/SPAM tokens, because i can't protect myself after changing my WALLET address, in new address even which is not using in any bounty but i received a few spam tokens. So, there are no permanent solution to stop receiving such tokens, you can just hide it. Interesting thing is some tokens listed in PancakeSwap, and when you will try to swap then your wallet can be hacked, i heard such several incidents.

My situation is not much different! I have around 20+ dead tokens in my wallet which I can't sell any more. These were mostly earned during my ICO bounty days. We can't do anything apart from ignoring them. That's the best thing we can do now.

I don't know if we can burn them or remove them from the wallet because these are available on chain and any wallet will show them as soon as it is connected to the chain. Best to ignore them!

It doesn't matter if you publish your address publicly or try to hide it from the public, such spam tokens will still come to you if any activity is noticed on the new wallet. This is due to the fact that the sender does not use any publicly published data, but extracts the necessary information from the blockchain.

also you can simply just use new wallet to avoid the scam coins, since generating one isn't that difficult.
if someone got so irritated with the presence of these random scam coins then they should just avoid it altogether by switching wallet, but doesn't mean you won't ever receive such scam coin again.
in the future they will definitely send some scam coin to you if your wallet have some funds that they are interested in.
these scammers are so eager to get your money they'd always target any wallet with stablecoin for example.

I agree that it is going to keep being an issue when the bull starts back up again. We haven't seen bull for a few years now, but next year or the year after that it will start again and we are going to be pretty upset about it again. I think that will be the time we will start seeing these things again, and it will not matter.

I hope that people could end up with something that should end up with a good result eventually, but that is going to end up with a result that should not be all that simple. I believe that we are going to end up with a result that will be a bit more dangerous if we are not careful. So, just let the tokens be there, and do not do something about them, if you try to, they may hack into your account.

Same here with my trust wallet, I got lots of those shitcoins roaming around binance chain network if I checked it through their chain. These coins has nothing to do with legit project, most of them is confirmed spam and has no value at all. One time a scammer offered my to buy my pi asset holdings, and literally pay me fake usdt but I never trusted the scheme that he used because I found out that it was not a real usdt.

We should be vigilant at all times, never trust the strangers around us especially when it comes to crypto payments. Scammer doesn't care our problems, eventually they're going to be our worst nightmare if we deal with them! so be careful at all times.

Now I prefer to transfer the balance to the market, it is more comfortable for me to have the money in the market. to eliminate the fear of being stolen. Certainly many people are annoyed by the presence of these rubbish coins, my advice is to move them to the market if are in doubt about wallet, for example if there are certain things in your wallet we can do as we wish such as coin airdrop or task airdrop

Transferring all your balance to the marketplace does not guarantee you will be safe either.
You have to look at the coins you have, sometimes some coins that have a price at your address do not have a market listing and are only available on Dex.

You also have to see all coins have their own market or CEX & DEX, it will all be scattered and will not be one, so this will provide a lot of costs to move it if your valuable coins are many.

Prefer to use a hardware wallet that is already secure enough and choose a hardware wallet that is recommended by everyone.
You must separate the main address and the address for airdrop, because the airdrop address will be very vulnerable to being hacked or exposed to coin dusting traps.

For example, when you get a distribution of rewards from an airdrop or bounty, it is more convenient to exchange USDT, BUSD stable tokens and then transfer them to the market. If the cost calculation is still good, I will do it, but if the cost is excessive, I will leave the coins in my wallet until I have a good calculated price. Thank you for your recommendation, good hardware wallet suggestion

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.

It seems like this is often done by scammers, they have certain goals for this. Hemm, this is really annoying because there are more and more of them. Not just 3 but more than that, and many more. At first I also felt like I had never bought these tokens, but it turns out they are increasing over time. And this is annoying because they are just shit tokens. Not only that, actually it doesn't matter and just leave it, as long as you don't click or follow the directions for further suspicious things. but unfortunately, it becomes like dirtying wallets. Because there are more shit tokens like that than the real coins we have. But what else, you can't remove all of that from your wallet. That's the risk when we share our wallets publicly, usually when we enter our wallet address when participating in airdrops or bounties which can be seen publicly by everyone.

Don't get stressed with these shitcoins, just ignore them. In fact, we all have the same experience and we were surprised to have these coins because we never expected it. We sometimes think it was an airdrop or someone mistakenly sent it to the wrong address. Well, the best thing to do is not to deal with them as we are not sure where it is coming from. Some scammers make use of this tactic to scam people but make no conversation with them or else, you will fall into their tricks.

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.

Exchange it directly to USDT to see how the coin develops, if it has good potential for the future then hold it.
After all, the rewards given from Airdrop or Bounty are also not that big.

Most are still in the development stage or projects that have been successful immediately have a good market.
You can transfer USDT, BUSD, or other stablecoins to the market using a network that has low fees such as the BSC network, Matic, Optimis, Arbitrum, etc.

Suggestions for Hard wallets that I think are still good are Ledges Nano S or X, Trezor Model T or one, and Safepal S1 or X1.

Just choose, but some hardware wallets have their own advantages and disadvantages such as Ledger Nano which can extract private keys.
Research before you buy.

See more details here
https://thebitcoinhole.com/

its getting difficult to just ignore it when we follow some airdrops and can misled us into thinking that these scam token is actually coin we gained from airdrop while its not.
it can expose use to the risk of losing money because we might accidentally swap them which might have happened to many people already.
usually its best to use new wallet that doesn't have the scam token being sent around but sometime after few months the new wallet will also receive same scam token.
its honestly irritating with these problem and there's no real way to solve it than just to ignore it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.  ;D

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This is mostly common with bsc network and you can't get rid of it, sometimes it depends on the type of wallet you are using, let say you can only see this type of token if you scan your wallet through bscscan. It's a pure waste and occupies the wallet, if you aren't careful enough you could fall victim for intending to swap it without knowing that they are just there as spam token to hack you if try to swap them.

I consider those tokens of the likes in my portfolio as dead coins. As much as I want to dispose those tokens, I choose to just leave it there to remind me not to be too confident of the coins I am building my interests with. Well, to some it won’t be that easy but to get frustrated of what happened won’t do us any good thing but will rather just stress us out. Nothing is assured in this industry especially with profit. There are just inconsistencies and some things are just not going into our plans and assumptions. But if you no longer have the drive to just hold and hope for improvements then find a way to sell it if that would give you sense of peace of mind, even if it means that would be a permanent loss.

What to do? Well, for me I just act like those tokens don't exist in my wallet. I'm a very skeptical person when it comes to freebies. Even when I got into airdrops and the project sent the tokens I was never in a hurry to sell. I would just sit back awhile and watched other participants react or take action. This is because I'm of the opinion that free lunch doesn't exist. Something must give in. OP, ignore those tokens whenever you get them to avoid regret. Hiding them in the wallet is the way to go since we can't completely delete them.

It’s one thing when you participate in an airdrop and receive tokens for it, and quite another thing when some contract sends you these tokens. In 2016-2018, I remember when there were all sorts of airdrops with fraudulent contracts that set a huge price for gas. Now some blockchain-explorers even mark such tokens as “spam”, that is, an ordinary user can already rely on such information and ignore them. I also remember attempts to create contracts for burning such spam tokens. However, with the need to pay network fees and the cost of gas, they immediately became irrelevant. As an example, I'm talking about the ETH network.

I honestly wish they can go extra mile to enable features that will empower us the wallet owners in preventing unsolicited receipt of tokens until we add their contract address. Something that's commonplace online where users can block/unblock who to add or not add them to groups or call them. Yes, about the airdrop example I used; it's just to let you know to what extent I scrutinize stuff like that.

What I have to tell you is we have scammers who penetrate to other peoples wallet and enters to their coin, so I believe that before you do anything can happen to your coin through this particular wallet address you have to change it, because if you allow it or been greedy to yourself to make away with those coins sent by scammers you will totally or automatically get scammed, one certain time I notice such in my wallet especially in my trust wallet I couldn't hesitate to trash such wallet address knowing that scammers can trapped whatever in that wallet when I clicked in coins sent by them.

almost every day there are spam tokens in my wallet, but I don't do anything and leave the tokens in my wallet, usually the tokens I get are very expensive but it's just a fake price so it's better for me to just leave it and not exchange it or send it to another wallet, because it's very dangerous.

Let them BE NEVER, and NEVER sign the contract of any of those

You may treat those altcoins as non-existent or if you are really bothered by having any other altcoins that does not have any value, you may create a new wallet and transfer your funds to the new wallet. Some of those coins might be from the airdrops you participated before and if they don't have a market, there is no way for you to remove them or delete them from your wallet. Or maybe you can try sending them to another wallet, but it would be a waste of gas and time as it does not have any value.

Yes, the last method that needs to be applied is as I said before, just hide all the trash coins which are a trap to drain the contents of our wallet. Ignore it and continue the transaction without paying attention to the unclear coins. Never try to sell or connect with unknown Daaps, it will be dangerous. People who are greedy and only see the numbers on their wallet will usually be tempted and try to sell it, even though the price display of hundreds to thousands of dollars is just an appearance and doesn't mean anything if the coin is a trash coin.

Altcoins that you got from airdrops or from a failed investment are not really a problem, as you know exactly where they come from, and while a bother to look at them every time you open your wallet, as they clearly indicate your past mistakes, you can still deal with them with ease and ignore them, however the real issue are the coins that are being sent by scammers with the hopes you interact with them and they can steal all your coins, and while the easiest way to deal with them is to ignore them as well, it is never a nice feeling to know that a scammer has you on their sights.

I want to know the exact same thing, I have lots of scam tokens in my wallet.  I think most scam tokens come from forums, airdrop websites or giveaway threads.  But I don't understand at all how they hack wallets with scam tokens.  Although I know these are methods used by scammers.  But I want to know if there is any method to remove these tokens from the wallet.  Almost constantly my wallet keeps coming up with scam tokens.  Almost most investors are facing this problem now. Can anyone tell if anyone's wallet has been hacked with scam tokens so far?

Just move on and forget it, even though you change your address then you just delay yourself to get the same thing because in the future you will get the same stuff if they would find your address later.
As long as you don't interact and visit their websites assets then you are good to go. Sure, they make your wallet become unorganized with so many trash tokens but in the end you have just to accept it because it's really common.

It's hard to know where do the senders got our wallet, maybe they are doing it for random but the chance of it coming from a wallet address database/collective might be high and those scammers are the one collecting those. Try researching about honeypot tokens and various information on how hackers can hack your wallet will show. If your wallet are full of those unwanted coins, try changing wallet and be careful on spreading it on the public.

well, pretending that scam coins don't exist is the best thing, because even when we move the wallet we have, there is no guarantee they won't send it to the new wallet, unless OP really wants to move his assets to an exchange, or several exchange where it is also risky. It's best to ignore all these coins. Even now I don't know how many coins like that I have in my wallet.

So you have 7 mine is 10 and there are more coming in one of my addresses alone, I just ignored these spam tokens some of the tokens are marked spam already so I need not do anything, on one of my wallets with so many spam tokens coming in I just changed my address by sending the good tokens that are left to a new address, I have to spend a fee but I have a peace of mind.

Awareness is the key if you are going to a DEX to trade these spam tokens will not show up only if you entered their contract address, scammers are skillful they do these to track addresses and imitate the tokens that are in your wallet in the hope that you will use the fake token to trade, so extreme caution is necessary on wallets where you keep your important tokens.

Those numbers are still small and nothing compared to what I have before.

Yes, there is more to come once your wallet is already infected. That's right, the only way to fix it is by creating a new wallet and transfer the legit coins there. Then this wallet shouldn't be used anywhere.

For the token to show in a DEX, we need to manually import them and enter their contract address, ticker, etc.. if it doesn't work then you might need to see their info if which exchange they are listed and just do the same procedure.

But, we need to ignore them because if not and if we try to trade them thinking they are legit, we might lose our legit coins. It's either because we will pay for the fee which was usually huge or our wallets will get hacked because we allow access to it during the trade.

We've seen those dusting attacks on which it is really just that pretty darn common but still there are lots or tons of people who do get victimized with this stuff due to lack of knowledge.
I admit out that there are really those moments back in the past or simply my first time that i have seen that my wallet does have different kind of coins on which showing that $$$$ value on which
it is really that impossible that you wont really be  that becoming interesting on trying to sell out immediately. Honestly, i have tested out and i did pay up for the fee which is incredibly high but it doesnt matter
on spending a few bucks for the sake of getting that thousands of dollars of money that you have on your account balance and viola, you have just spent out something for nothing.

I havent experienced any loss of assets or coins into my wallet though even i have tested out on trying to make transactions. MM and making out some transactions or permissions
are the reason on why some people do lose up their assets because they have been able to confirmed. So far i have completely stopped on dealing with those coins after i have
spend up with some fees for no reason or just believing on something which is really that a whole lie.

I can feel it  ;D ;D

Indeed, just forget and ignore those shit coins. Because no matter how hard we think about it, they will still be in our wallet. If we intend to do something to them, it is actually a high risk and that is probably what hackers or scammers are waiting for.
So, if we are really bothered by the arrival of these coins, then just change to a new wallet. However, this also doesn't guarantee that one day you will get more shit coins like before.

U haven't experienced such this as address spam before I don't know why,  of may because I have a bounty section of the board on my ignore and I have never dropped my address on any airdrop page before so I think those scammers have no way to get my wallet address to spam their tokens their.

Anyways this is most expected by scammers who already have various method to steal users' information and this token spam are one of such method of spam attempt and I believe also the best possible way to handle such an attack is to either ignore those coins or if you have any free money to pay fees you can send them back to the address used in send it to you if you are afraid that the presence of those coins in your wallet may result into possible future security risks for your wallet which I doubt it possibility unless you allow that to happen.