Fake token in wallet

[EYC_ONE]

Many people are currently losing some tokens from their wallets or unknowingly getting stuck in another wallet. Have we ever wondered why this is happening from someone's wallet? The main reason is hack. Hackers are banging the tokens through their surveillance. Any small amount or big. If you ever notice some tokens in your wallet that are being added without your knowledge.I'm going to swap or sell your token without thinking about where the token came from. Never do that. Because hackers put their tokens in your wallet and when you go to swap or sell the token without seeing the token, hackers like the token. Remove from your wallet. Some tokens that you will never swap or sell-

*ALPACAFIN.CO... (ALPACA)
*BestAir.io (AIR)
*BNBW.IO (BNBW)
* BSCTOKEN.IO (BSCTOK...)
*GoFlux.io (FLUX)
* Minereum BSC (MNEB)
*ShibaDrop.io (SHIB)
*TheEver.io (EVER)
*AirStack.net (AIR)
*TheVera.io (VERA)
*ABFIN.org (ABFIN)
 


original post local section: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=631891.msg57751830#msg57751830

Is there any way to remove these tokens from the wallet?

[jackg]

Is this just an annoyance thing? Afaik they can't cost you more than the fees you pay to attempt to swap it unless they have access to your machine or something.

Also, per the question, it depends on the type of wallet you're using but for metamask you can just highlight the token and remove it that way.

[BitMaxz]

I have a few of them in my wallet I search them but all of them are fake or some of them are real but they forcing you to invest on their cloud mining site with your token but with BNB fees(So it's still likely a scam).
Not worth swapping them, it cost you more than the value of that tokens.

Just ignore them it won't affect your wallet it's just like an advertisement spreading to any wallet they find on the BSC.

[hosseinimr93]

Afaik they can't cost you more than the fees you pay to attempt to swap it unless they have access to your machine or something.

Such tokens are usually sent for advertising purposes and you won't lose anything other than the transaction fee when swapping them. But that hasn't always been the case.
Read the following article for more information.

Creative attacker steals $76,000 in RUNE by giving out free tokens

[cryptoaddictchie]

Hackers are banging the tokens through their surveillance. Any small amount or big. If you ever notice some tokens in your wallet that are being added without your knowledge.I'm going to swap or sell your token without thinking about where the token came from.

I thibk they can send it all they want but they can only do watch the wallet growing without anything happening on it. I dont think sending tokens to your wallet could make you hacked by them. Yes they can see your wallet, but thats it. They cant hack it unless they aquire your seed phrase to transfer your funds.

Is there any way to remove these tokens from the wallet?

Send to burn address. Much better ignore it.

[israt1@]

Such tokens are usually sent for advertising purposes and you won't lose anything other than the transaction fee when swapping them.

I don't agree with you. I used their exchange link to do a sweep of this token. The token was not swapped then. Later I saw that the FRX token in my wallet was sent to someone's wallet. Who sent the token. I think it was due to swapping the token

[Pmalek]

Read the following article for more information.

Creative attacker steals $76,000 in RUNE by giving out free tokens

This is the first time I hear about this particular case. From the article, it's clear that it's a smart contract exploit that can't be abused to empty your whole Ethereum address and was designed only to attack a particular contract. That of RUNE (whatever that is). And the only reason it can do that is because RUNE doesn't use standard ERC-20 contracts. Instead they use a vulnerable non-standard contract.  The worst thing is that the developers were aware that something like this could happen. Maybe they are the ones exploiting it, who knows.

[Gunday_07]

Greed is why people lose money this way and I think they deserved it, why trying to sell something you don't work for? You don't join any airdrops you don't join any bounty promotions and yet you received free tokens? You should be smart enough to know that senders are up to something

[kak uli]

Many people are currently losing some tokens from their wallets or unknowingly getting stuck in another wallet. Have we ever wondered why this is happening from someone's wallet? The main reason is hack. Hackers are banging the tokens through their surveillance. Any small amount or big. If you ever notice some tokens in your wallet that are being added without your knowledge.I'm going to swap or sell your token without thinking about where the token came from. Never do that. Because hackers put their tokens in your wallet and when you go to swap or sell the token without seeing the token, hackers like the token. Remove from your wallet. Some tokens that you will never swap or sell-

*ALPACAFIN.CO... (ALPACA)
*BestAir.io (AIR)
*BNBW.IO (BNBW)
* BSCTOKEN.IO (BSCTOK...)
*GoFlux.io (FLUX)
* Minereum BSC (MNEB)
*ShibaDrop.io (SHIB)
*TheEver.io (EVER)
*AirStack.net (AIR)
*TheVera.io (VERA)


original post local section: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=631891.msg57751830#msg57751830

Is there any way to remove these tokens from the wallet?

I also received some fake tokens sent in my wallet, for me this is very annoying because it pollutes the wallet I have. but what makes me wonder, when did the fake token enter my bsc wallet?, why is it not in the Eth wallet?

[masterrex]

Me too I receive that fake BSC tokens, but I think it will not cause any harm to your wallet because that was only visible since it was sent to your wallet address unless you made any mistake that exposed your wallet keys and password or even phrase so for the better just let it there and hide it from displaying but some airdrop that was sent to my address has some value but not that big. like $2-3 dollars so don't waste your time to bothering those fake tokens in your wallet just let them rot.   

[aemma]

Many people are currently losing some tokens from their wallets or unknowingly getting stuck in another wallet. Have we ever wondered why this is happening from someone's wallet? The main reason is hack. Hackers are banging the tokens through their surveillance. Any small amount or big. If you ever notice some tokens in your wallet that are being added without your knowledge.I'm going to swap or sell your token without thinking about where the token came from. Never do that. Because hackers put their tokens in your wallet and when you go to swap or sell the token without seeing the token, hackers like the token. Remove from your wallet. Some tokens that you will never swap or sell-

*ALPACAFIN.CO... (ALPACA)
*BestAir.io (AIR)
*BNBW.IO (BNBW)
* BSCTOKEN.IO (BSCTOK...)
*GoFlux.io (FLUX)
* Minereum BSC (MNEB)
*ShibaDrop.io (SHIB)
*TheEver.io (EVER)
*AirStack.net (AIR)
*TheVera.io (VERA)


original post local section: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=631891.msg57751830#msg57751830

Is there any way to remove these tokens from the wallet?

Hackers and scammers will always look for ways to get users, and the approach they use most times is the greed nature of humans, that is, they know that once some people see such tokens in their wallets, the first step would be to know where it is trading and possible ways to swap it without knowing that, it was planned and once they take the step to swap such tokens, their wallets will be hacked. To make matters worst, most times some of these mobile wallets will display an unrealistic price of the token which is always very high, thus increasing the urge for the person to sell.
Lastly, on the creation of most wallets now, once a transaction is done on such wallet, maybe receiving a token from another wallet, some of these scam tokens will be sent almost immediately.
So, it means we have to be very careful of the tokens we swap, and most importantly do not swap tokens you have no idea of. Don't bother sending them out or interacting with them most especially since it's a scam token just hide the tokens from your displaying in your wallet, or you can create a new wallet and move out all your tokens.

[Beparanf]

You can't view this shit tokens without adding the contract  address of the coins to your wallet. You can just see it when viewing directly on blockchain tracker website. Don't waste time and transaction fee by removing it because your wallet is still safe and this coins won't appear to your wallet automatically so just ignore them.

I don't read the attached thread but the garbage tokens are all faked/dummy coins. I received tons of it on my wallet that has BNB and ETH for a long time that I'm using on different airdrop before.

[cricketkhampion]

yes, I have a few token from on your list but my friends say that these tokens are fake. when I went for swap these token they said they will not swap in this exchange they gave me site and said go and connect your wallet in this site then you can swap these token. bit my friends said if you connect your wallet in this site your wallet will be hack then I didn't connect.

[Alisha-k]

This havkers are just developing new techniques as the days goes by and thanks for this update safeguarding our wallets and watching bout for strange tokens that we didn't add to our wallet should be a watch out for. But would we ever get free from this malicious havkers I wonder why the derive pleasure causing others pains

[faithupgrade]

Theres a method in Ethereum where you can burn junk coins inside your wallet like 888,888 KICK tokens. But it will cost you a little. I am pretty sure that theres an equivalent method under BSC people who tried to withdraw the money will end up losing more BNB.

[herurist]

in my wallet there are some of them like ever, vera and mineralium. at first before I knew this was a hoax I was happy because I saw the price which was indeed impressive but after further research and seeing some information from several sources and forums I became panicked and felt disturbed by this token.
I was worried about my wallet and ended up moving some of my tokens and coins from there.
traps like this are indeed very dangerous because if this happens to beginners and indeed greedy people of course this becomes a very dangerous thing, most likely it is indeed losing their money.
but perhaps the most probable anticipation at this time is to leave this token and not try to tamper with it, but we can also secure our assets first such as being transferred to a different wallet because even though the token was not tampered with but it does not rule out that our assets have been safe from the traps of these evil thieves

[passwordnow]

You can remove those by transferring to another wallet but do you mind to pay for the higher fee lately if it's on Ethereum network? I don't think that there's an urgency for you to do that with your wallet but you can just ignore it and keep using that wallet.
But if you find it bad to look at those tokens sitting in your wallet, abandon that wallet and transfer the legitimate balance you have on that wallet so it's going to be an abandoned wallet with those fake tokens.

[rhomelmabini]

Been having the same kind of issue on my Tron wallet because everytime I get a transaction this TRC-10 tokens are being airdropped on my end but so far I kept on ignoring them, it's a waste of time. Tronlink wallet seems to have this option to delete the ticker but doesn't necessarily mean that it gets out on your wallet forever, it stays there unless you sent it out on other address may burn address or not.

[bL4nkcode]

You can remove those by transferring to another wallet but do you mind to pay for the higher fee lately if it's on Ethereum network? I don't think that there's an urgency for you to do that with your wallet but you can just ignore it and keep using that wallet.
But if you find it bad to look at those tokens sitting in your wallet, abandon that wallet and transfer the legitimate balance you have on that wallet so it's going to be an abandoned wallet with those fake tokens.

Though both still the same, both need higher gas fee if those tokens are erc20 or eth related tokens. The most recommended is to ignore those tokens since mostly those doesnt have much value just a spam transactions for their scheme.

[HashingTower]

You can remove those by transferring to another wallet but do you mind to pay for the higher fee lately if it's on Ethereum network? I don't think that there's an urgency for you to do that with your wallet but you can just ignore it and keep using that wallet.
But if you find it bad to look at those tokens sitting in your wallet, abandon that wallet and transfer the legitimate balance you have on that wallet so it's going to be an abandoned wallet with those fake tokens.

Though both still the same, both need higher gas fee if those tokens are erc20 or eth related tokens. The most recommended is to ignore those tokens since mostly those doesnt have much value just a spam transactions for their scheme.

You ain't seen nothing yet, some tokens will show good value just to lure the greedy ones, the best thing is don't even think about spending what you don't work for, ignore the tokens and don't bother claiming or trying to sell them there's always a higher trap in place