How to deal with Token Spam

[iconoclast]

Some of you may have noticed a bunch of tokens appearing in your Ethereum Wallet in the last couple of days that you have no idea where they came from. In my case it was  tokens for IFOOD, FRES, LXT, DAG, ARP, EES, NC & LET. When people send me token spam my standard response is to report them to Etherscan as a spam token. If you have received unsolicited tokens you should also report them as this is the only way we can stop what is now a nuisance from becoming a plague.

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[poodle63]

Some of you may have noticed a bunch of tokens appearing in your Ethereum Wallet in the last couple of days that you have no idea where they came from. In my case it was  tokens for IFOOD, FRES, LXT, DAG, ARP, EES, NC & LET. When people send me token spam my standard response is to report them to Etherscan as a spam token. If you have received unsolicited tokens you should also report them as this is the only we can stop what is now a nuisance from becoming a plague.

It can't be reported and it will be exist in the blockchain. I doubt that etherscan will give a feedback for your report. The only thing i will do to send them all to the default wallet and it can decrease their supply. But this will not help a lot but at least this is my effort to not keep shit token in my wallet.

[Alpha0One1]

Token spams are irresponsible use of the ethereum network. They just clog the eth network with useless tokens.
I hope everyone becomes responsible crypto-token creators.

[Tipstar]

Some of you may have noticed a bunch of tokens appearing in your Ethereum Wallet in the last couple of days that you have no idea where they came from. In my case it was  tokens for IFOOD, FRES, LXT, DAG, ARP, EES, NC & LET. When people send me token spam my standard response is to report them to Etherscan as a spam token. If you have received unsolicited tokens you should also report them as this is the only we can stop what is now a nuisance from becoming a plague.

There is a trend of sending promo tokens, tokens with zero value and a free advertising for every eth address known.
The best way to prevent your main wallet from cluttering is not sharing your wallet address to airdrops or in public. Keep a separate wallet for airdrop, general use and long term storage. It might be a bit expensive for fees but worth the trouble.

[iconoclast]

Some of you may have noticed a bunch of tokens appearing in your Ethereum Wallet in the last couple of days that you have no idea where they came from. In my case it was  tokens for IFOOD, FRES, LXT, DAG, ARP, EES, NC & LET. When people send me token spam my standard response is to report them to Etherscan as a spam token. If you have received unsolicited tokens you should also report them as this is the only we can stop what is now a nuisance from becoming a plague.

It can't be reported and it will be exist in the blockchain. I doubt that etherscan will give a feedback for your report. The only thing i will do to send them all to the default wallet and it can decrease their supply. But this will not help a lot but at least this is my effort to not keep shit token in my wallet.

Etherscan will flag them as spam so when you click on the token balances drop down menu they will appear at the bottom and instead of a token trading symbol they will be marked as"Token [Spam]". On the page for the token itself where it says reputation it will say Spam in red letters. Here is one that was flagged a couple of months ago.
https://etherscan.io/token/0x31a240648e2baf4f9f17225987f6f53fceb1699a

[pistachefreak]

The only thing you wallet actually holds as its own and can sign transfer of directly is Ethers. ERC20 tokens are owned by their respective smart contracts and your wallet merely has the ability to move a certain portion of those around by ASKING their contracts to move it. Therefore, your address doesn't OWN any tokens, the tokens are ASSIGNED to your address by the contract granting you the ability to move them (but only the contract can move them on your behalf).

[luckydevil2021]

I think Etherscan should add an option to permanently hide specific tokens or just hide known spammers by default. Other than that, just because you see a list of tokens on Etherscan, it doesn't necessarily mean that's everything you own. For example, you can own some SIM spam that doesn't show until you manually check how many you have. The only reason this is a viable spam method currently, is because of how Etherscan shows your tokens. Otherwise, you should always know what valuable tokens you have yourself so you'd only check the amount of those if you need later.

[kastara]

Some of you may have noticed a bunch of tokens appearing in your Ethereum Wallet in the last couple of days that you have no idea where they came from. In my case it was  tokens for IFOOD, FRES, LXT, DAG, ARP, EES, NC & LET. When people send me token spam my standard response is to report them to Etherscan as a spam token. If you have received unsolicited tokens you should also report them as this is the only we can stop what is now a nuisance from becoming a plague.

It often happens that there is a token that we do not know where it came from and I try to let it go and in a few days the token disappears again, maybe when it happens again maybe I will report it so as not to send spam tokens to someone's wallet.

[electronicash]

i have been receiving those tokens too. i thought those were given freely because of holding ETh in our account. i did search to some of them to see whether they do have a value but seem nothing. i have no idea we can report token spam but right now i just ignore those tokens. as long as i am not bothered to it, i let it stay in my wallet but i hope someone can figure how we can send it to our spam wallet.

[StarKay]

Token spam is becoming a menace, the rate at which they were sent last weekend is so alarming; if it continues that way it will make it difficult to identify and register legit Airdrop tokens in MEW.
I have been ignoring them so far, I suggest we ignore such tokens even when they make it to Exchanges to serve as a deterrence to such practices from others.

[Shet_shet]

Token spam is becoming a menace, the rate at which they were sent last weekend is so alarming; if it continues that way it will make it difficult to identify and register legit Airdrop tokens in MEW.
I have been ignoring them so far, I suggest we ignore such tokens even when they make it to Exchanges to serve as a deterrence to such practices from others.

How do you get token spam? where? I have never encountered any similar problems

[Lindazz]

Then you don't need to do anything because they don't affect your wallet security.
And when they're valuable in the future, you can even consider selling them.

[iconoclast]

Then you don't need to do anything because they don't affect your wallet security.
And when they're valuable in the future, you can even consider selling them.

How are you going to find the valuable ones when you have 1000 shitcoins in your wallet?

[cryptodalton]

Day by day token scam is increasing. Things need to be done to mitigate this problem. Is there anyone who knows how to report scam token? or is it even possible to report them?

[Profuter]

Some of you may have noticed a bunch of tokens appearing in your Ethereum Wallet in the last couple of days that you have no idea where they came from. In my case it was  tokens for IFOOD, FRES, LXT, DAG, ARP, EES, NC & LET. When people send me token spam my standard response is to report them to Etherscan as a spam token. If you have received unsolicited tokens you should also report them as this is the only way we can stop what is now a nuisance from becoming a plague.

What is this done for? How can an attacker benefit from this?

[shark69]

I think that's their way of promotion, but it's still suspected as spam because it's suddenly in our wallet. Actually get disiasati to create a special thread token spam so that we all can avoid mutual interference. But maybe some people also do not care about it.

[niteroy]

Token spams are irresponsible use of the ethereum network. They just clog the eth network with useless tokens.
I hope everyone becomes responsible crypto-token creators.

Yes, it is because of the irresponsible use of the Ethereum network that such cases occur. I also get coins about which I do not know anything and they just lie on my purse dead weight. Perhaps the Ethereum team is aware of the problem and is looking for solutions, let's see.

[sam53]

I think the only thing you can do is just ignore it . You can report or do anything ). If you can so you can move all your token to another new wallet then your wallet will be much cleaner ). But I'll not do that cause I'll have to pay fee for transaction. LOL. Just don't care about them then everything will be fine

[haidangtp]

I also have this problem but I do not know what to do with these invalid token. So I do not care about it.

[angelfaria]

This is a nice post. It can't be accounted for and this will exist in the blockchain. I question that token spam will give an input for the report. The main thing I can do to send them all to the default wallet and it can diminish their supply. Be that as it may, this won't encourage a great deal yet at any rate this is my push to not keep poop token in my wallet.