Strange transaction in MEW...

[Lait007]

Hey all!
Today im take transaction in MEW:
https://imgur.com/obw3izi
What a phishing method is this?

[libert19]

It does not seem like a phishing attempt, some people make random tokens or clone of popular tokens for whatever reason.

[Amalker]

It's just a spam tokens, owner of this scam token just want to draw attention.

[Pffrt]

It's nothing to worry about. Sometimes you will get some of those tokens because creating a ERC20 token is easy. I remember I had received KYC token or something like that. Although I don't know any other purpose is there behind this, but it's not an phishing attempt for sure.

[labilaab]

What?? Is that even real? Imagine he got the whole total token supply of Paymon token by himself or maybe its just a bugged? That’s a very very big whale probable or the dev himself owning that huge amount.

[Lakai01]

Wouldnt worry about that. People start spamming the blockchain with useless tokens, this seems to be one of them. Nowadays its so easy to create your own token, everyone can do this and of course abuse it ...

[Tipsters]

Ive got a lot of this in my wallet. Actually, I opted to try cleaning my wallet and seeing this irritates me. Hoping that there are some restriction on creating a token cause many people enjoy creating display tokens. I dont know what good they can get from doing this,

AGREED: They want to draw attention by spamming their tokens which is clearly a suspicious way of promoting their project. Be careful as well might some of them have virus attached phishing paraphernalia.

[semes]

I guess you never used a Waves wallet. If there is even 1 Waves in your wallet, the SPAM token is falling every day. I have only 1 Waves in my Waves wallet and have more than 100 SPAM token.
Ethereum wallets has less of this problem.

[Levyathan]

But, be careful, even if its nothing to you, they might have been planting a hack code to your wallet.

[shirackjs]

It is quite common that random tokens be sent to your ETH address, it is not a scam and you got nothing to lose. You can just keep the token in your wallet. I guess the owner of the token just want to attract people’s attention or make it seems like the token is popular.

[blockman]

A phishing method requires you to login or input a detail to a very sketchy website.

What you have given is a transaction from an unknown token so it's not really a phishing attempt but spam token.

[taufik0911]

It's just a spam tokens, owner of this scam token just want to draw attention.

yes it is only spam token I have often got it like that, soon there will be someone who reports it and the token will be loaded with information on token spam
maybe their goal is to get impression or natural search on google
I think this is made for SEO

[Pamadar]

A phishing method requires you to login or input a detail to a very sketchy website.

What you have given is a transaction from an unknown token so it's not really a phishing attempt but spam token.

Simply to understand if something is requiring you to sign up / log in such important details, you need to stand back and think twice, as things can harm
you, but what we are seeing right now is just spam transactions to gather some attentions from the platform, nothing to be worried as long as it's not
doing any harmed to your personal wallet then you are still safe to go.

[Beerwizzard]

I've got a plenty of unexpected tokens on my ETH address since it was created.
I suspect that one of the reason of this spam was an attempt to warm up the market. Some of those spam tokens belong to real projects but  bad ones. They are traded on exchanges and someone is sending some free token and while user is trying to sell them he see that the amount of his free tokens is not enough to trade it on exchange so he have to buy some more of the tokens. Sometimes even after that he can't sell it because of lack of volume.

[cudora]

It is a regular method of promoting a project. I have also got some strange tokens into my wallet and I wondered about that. So I searched for a project that distributed these tokens and it was like a discount coupon for the token sale.

[s4mp1nt0]

Hey all!
Today im take transaction in MEW:

What a phishing method is this?

what? is that your wallet? did you received the whole token supply of paymon?
anyway, if thats not paymon then just ignore it. its just a spam token.

[Vit83]

It seems to me, that most of these free tokens are created to attract attention to their projects. You see the token and you start to read about it.

[libert19]

Ive got a lot of this in my wallet. Actually, I opted to try cleaning my wallet and seeing this irritates me. Hoping that there are some restriction on creating a token cause many people enjoy creating display tokens. I dont know what good they can get from doing this,

AGREED: They want to draw attention by spamming their tokens which is clearly a suspicious way of promoting their project. Be careful as well might some of them have virus attached phishing paraphernalia.

These are not tokens used for promotion, these are just spam tokens from spammers and this tokens can be unseen from explorer side (contact etherscan they will remove it, if it's serious).

[ryan992]

I ever get same case like you. Its juat spam altcoin who enter your wallet. In my case a lot of people get it and report the token. In the end the altcoin disappeared. I think that altcoin deleted by MEW itself

[Pffrt]

It is a regular method of promoting a project. I have also got some strange tokens into my wallet and I wondered about that. So I searched for a project that distributed these tokens and it was like a discount coupon for the token sale.

There is no such thing is done for promotion. It is done for nothing in fact.
However, afaik, people got a little satoshi more often to their bitcoin address. I'm not exactly sure about this. I think that's what is happening here too.