Potential scam.. need help please

[Marykeller]

This is not quite new in crypto again, receiving an unknown token in your eth or polygon wallet. I received tons of it, a year back(not having them again though cos I have deleted them).

I know how I feel when I first receive unknown tokens. I was kinda asking questions about how to sell them off cos seeing the tokens in my wallet made me think that am rich, not knowing that they are all scam tokens. As time proceeded I get to know that the tokens are scams.

In other words, just ignore the token. Tokens that enter your wallet without your knowledge are to be ignored with passion

[carlfebz2]

So about a week ago someone sent something to my coinbase wallet ethereum address via the polygon network. I got a message saying i had received 10 cookies. I was confused so i went into my wallet. Things immediately felt a little different. There was a different wallet picture in the corner that said wallet one. The app asked me for my code in weird spots. I never put my code in. I could bypass it with the back button. There they were, 10 cookies sitting in my wallet. Not sure what i should do with them, or even what they are. Not even really sure if their malicious or not. Just weird. I guess i could send them back to the sender. Im not really concerned about my funds at this point. Im more concerned that something like this can happen to an address without fault of the owner. You dont have to click a link,  they just show up. Are all ethereum based addresses at risk? Suggestions or any insight into this would be helpful. This exceeds my scope of computer knowledge. Thank you in advance computer ninjas

 

Not that something new,how much more if you do make yourself get involved with BSC? Try to make use of some instant exchange or swap sites like
Pancakeswap or similar sites and try to check out with the address you had been using on said transactions.

You would eventually be seeing lots of tokens been sent out on your own address which it would really be boggling you on what the heck on where these coins came from.
Due to become paranoid when it comes to potential scams or modus then it would really be better to ignore all of these things.
If you arent expecting something like payment or transfers then dont deal up anything which is outside of it.

[KennyR]

Don't be a prey someone trying to take control of our wallet. This is common with myetherwallet, quite often we can see different tokens in good volume sitting in our wallet. We know what should be in the wallet, so just look for those tokens in the wallet. Don't be happy on seeing good volume of tokens that doesn't belong to you. Whenever you encounter such situation keep yourself on the safer side.

As the market keeps widening we need to be very cautious. More people try to make something out of the beginners and the Crypto users, as everything is online. Participating into trusted airdrops is good and be careful with the rewards received.

[Adbitco]

That may be a spam token or unwanted coin which most of the creators do use them as text run and also partially very harmful to you because whenever you tends to swap or trade any of those spam token you ended up being hack because of the authorization of your wallet could give them automatic access to your address and then within few seconds or minutes your account will get compromised, so I advised you from today to try and ignore most of those spam token and coin sent to you.
It mostly occurs whenever you execute a trade or transaction which is very common with Binance smart Chain.

[Oceat]

I'm not into altcoin anymore but having this kind of scam threat is like a way of hacker to know more about your address and what's left or something. It couldn't be just coincidence that they happen to know your address and sending a token that has no value or something is just a shit coin and I have tons of them in my wallet.

Just sell some coins that you own or you know you owned and never the other who's just new to you which has no nothing of information you find on the internet or do your own research to know what these coins do if you try to sell. And fortunately, you did what's best you could by asking and spreading awareness to the crypto community about these potential scam.

[Mr. Magkaisa]

So about a week ago someone sent something to my coinbase wallet ethereum address via the polygon network. I got a message saying i had received 10 cookies. I was confused so i went into my wallet. Things immediately felt a little different. There was a different wallet picture in the corner that said wallet one. The app asked me for my code in weird spots. I never put my code in. I could bypass it with the back button. There they were, 10 cookies sitting in my wallet. Not sure what i should do with them, or even what they are. Not even really sure if their malicious or not. Just weird. I guess i could send them back to the sender. Im not really concerned about my funds at this point. Im more concerned that something like this can happen to an address without fault of the owner. You dont have to click a link,  they just show up. Are all ethereum based addresses at risk? Suggestions or any insight into this would be helpful. This exceeds my scope of computer knowledge. Thank you in advance computer ninjas


 

  - Like those who gave you comments in the answers to your question dude, that's normal and you're not the only one who experienced it, as long as the important thing is that you don't just click on something that tells you to do this or that, and the important thing is At all, don't just connect the wallet address to a platform that you don't know is a phishing site or malware.

This way your wallet address won't be at risk dude. Good day to you

[albon]

There are thousands of scam coins that scammers create and send to thousands of wallets to trap people, you should not try to sell these scam coins because you will lose your wallet fees, if you have not participated in one of the airdrops/bounties and received these coins from them then I advise you to ignore them, and you can through the coin contract To know if this coin is a scam or not and you will be able to sell it or not, and through coinmarketcap you can also know if the coin you received is the official or the fake coin. for me, my wallet contains thousands of scam coins and I never cared about them.

[Yatsan]

So about a week ago someone sent something to my coinbase wallet ethereum address via the polygon network. I got a message saying i had received 10 cookies. I was confused so i went into my wallet. Things immediately felt a little different. There was a different wallet picture in the corner that said wallet one. The app asked me for my code in weird spots. I never put my code in. I could bypass it with the back button. There they were, 10 cookies sitting in my wallet. Not sure what i should do with them, or even what they are. Not even really sure if their malicious or not. Just weird. I guess i could send them back to the sender. Im not really concerned about my funds at this point. Im more concerned that something like this can happen to an address without fault of the owner. You dont have to click a link,  they just show up. Are all ethereum based addresses at risk? Suggestions or any insight into this would be helpful. This exceeds my scope of computer knowledge. Thank you in advance computer ninjas


 

Be wary of the tokens sent to our wallet, usually it is a scam project, they direct us to the website and then ask us to connect the wallet, if we follow them, they have recorded the private key and the assets we have stored are immediately lost, this is normal, as long as the token is not worth it then better ignore it.

Problem is the belief of easy money or free tokens. There are indeed air drops but atleast, there is a process with that and as well, community you could ask informations from. Those investors or users who are easily being fooled by these scam projects might not be aware of the risks giving informations that may link their wallets into that particular site. If something is unrealistic or 'fishy' avoid engaging into it. There are comminties such as this one wherein clarification won't be expensive. It will just cost you time asking, but not any amount such as losing your assets when you got scammed. Be vigilant as well to help those who are at risk of losing assets, everyone should share their opinion if it would help someone.

[coinerer]

It's a common thing that Ethereum BSC and Polygon network have various spam tokens from time to time and they can never be sold or transferred but what has happened to you is your Coinbase wallet which is a custodial wallet but nothing to fear because it's what you want to use and  Also can't transfer anyone so take away your eyes from it.
on the other hand , may be some hacker can give you a bait to hack your wallet so beware of it and avoid clicking or trying to transfer it.

[JunkieMiner]

Same things happens to me, yesterday I received 1$ of polygon in free claim and play to my trust wallet, but I didn't understand that what I can do with the 1$ , whether can i use it? or it is not usable? or something that may be dangerous for my security (wallet). That would be better to revoke the wallet on time. Risk of losing will be low.