Fake token in wallet

[sammy21]

I have some in my BSC wallet, I don't know where they came from, I tried to research if the tokens were a gift from the airdrop I participated in but they didn't, it just appeared in my wallet, and after I found out if it wasn't what I was doing , I ignore all the tokens that have no clear origin.

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[Ever-young]

I just don't understand why people will create token and be distributing it to various wallets, are they sending it for free? Are they not affected by the gas consumed?
I have most of the listed tokens and I have be ignorance enough to swap one of them and I end up losing gas worth 1.4$. After then I have not and will not make the mistake of swapping an un known token seen in my wallet. What worries me most is how are they always able to send to different wallets as soon as a transaction just occur in the wallet. It does not take more than a minute for the token to arrive at ones wallet with recent transaction.

[kensaii]

Don't connect your wallet to an untrusted source. Don't play with unknown smart contract coins that you don't know why it was on your wallet. That's the basic thing you can do to protect yourself over the dangerous attempt to hack your wallets.

[kokrokok]

I have some fake tokens in my wallet and until now my assets are still safe, nothing happened to my wallet, I know they send random tokens to all wallets just for promotion, not for hacking. maybe those who lost assets due to connecting to some scammers sites
no need to remove tokens from wallet because we still have to issue gas
if you're really worried, just create a new wallet and transfer the valuable tokens

[Scripture]

Don't connect your wallet to an untrusted source. Don't play with unknown smart contract coins that you don't know why it was on your wallet. That's the basic thing you can do to protect yourself over the dangerous attempt to hack your wallets.

More importantly, never share your seed phrase to fully protect your wallet.
Anyway, I don’t mind those dead tokens or even the fake one in my wallet because its useless and its not worth it to send it to any address just to clean your own wallet, fees are not worth it for that so better not to focus on that at all.

[Wakate]

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?

Strange thing are happening these day where we see scammers and project developers using various means to actualise there prospective target to gain money from investors who are not aware of there forms of scamming. The rate where scammers are developing new ways of scamming investors are vast and there is need for us who are all time investors searching for new coins we can invest in that could give us 10× 20× to 1000× of our capital needs prior research to know where and what we are putting our funds in to avoid later regret.

[bahagia93]

Don't connect your wallet to an untrusted source. Don't play with unknown smart contract coins that you don't know why it was on your wallet. That's the basic thing you can do to protect yourself over the dangerous attempt to hack your wallets.

The funny thing is the OP didn't tell about hacking his wallet, but he did tell about the trash coins in his wallet, or fake tokens that have absolutely no value, this is not about a hack, because the one who hacked the wallet never sent any tokens, but they issue all tokens of value in the wallet.

[poodle63]

I also received some of these tokens. But I did not add these to the main wallet. Because I know I didn't buy these or get them from any airdrop. So I never tried to swap these. These shit tokens are sent for advertisement purposes. It is better to stay away from these tokens.

If it's true they are doing it for advertisement purpose, then it will make many people label their token that they send as shit token instead.It seem there are many tokens like this and sometime people just consider these tokens as free tokens they get from an airdrop.
To have these tokens can be confusing and it will be better if there is a way to remove these tokens that have no value instead of ignoring it.

[lenovop-70]

Mostly of that token are in my trust wallet, LOL. These hacker so ambitious to stole from us, and my local group was give us warning about that regarding our experience long time ago with an ERC20 wallet.
For me personally, i will ignore it since i dont know wheres it come from. And regarding how to make it gone from our wallet, theres no other way except send it back or send it to burn wallet, but thats will required gas. Better just let it sitting there, and dont do anything.

[kapalmabur]

I also received some of these tokens. But I did not add these to the main wallet. Because I know I didn't buy these or get them from any airdrop. So I never tried to swap these. These shit tokens are sent for advertisement purposes. It is better to stay away from these tokens.

If it's true they are doing it for advertisement purpose, then it will make many people label their token that they send as shit token instead.It seem there are many tokens like this and sometime people just consider these tokens as free tokens they get from an airdrop.
To have these tokens can be confusing and it will be better if there is a way to remove these tokens that have no value instead of ignoring it.

When we follow a lot of airdrops and there are many tokens that land in our wallets sometimes we don't know which tokens are really safe and which are fake tokens,
we have to be really careful of course to secure our wallets,
it's true that tokens like that are better removed I hope it can be done

[Bagong91]

I also have some of those coins but because I don't feel like I'm participating in the coin project to get the coins so I keep the coins in my wallet and do nothing with them, because I'm afraid something bad will happen to my wallet

[RBLT]

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?

Luckily i never get any of those tokens, but you can remove the tokens if you using Metamask. I think other wallet can remove the unwanted tokens too. The problem is, if you want to remove certain tokens it does use a gas fee right? so i think it's best to leave them be and hope nothing bad happens

[kak uli]

I have some tokens like that, which I don't know who the sender is. It's not even a token of bounty or airdrop. But I ignored it. I assume it's a hacker who wants to steal my money. So I focus more on my coins and tokens, especially if among the tokens that I have, have good value. So I don't bother.

i think all bsc wallet users receive junk tokens as mentioned in the above thread, as you said that it is not airdrop token nor bounty token, but what makes me wonder why only in bsc wallet is sent? if it is true as your assumption that this is done by hackers who want to steal the money of bsc wallet users, then the security of using bsc wallet is not guaranteed. hopefully your assumption is not correct and the security of the bsc wallet is further enhanced by the developer.

[omone1]

A friend has his ApeNFT moved from his Tron Wallet when he tried to swap a token he saw on his wallet. This is the reason I didn't swap my Panda even though it was worth over $40-$50 before it fell. With this it's now difficult to trust genuine airdrop. Some fake tokens redirect to website and ask for PK, never should you allow it.

[zachyboy090118]

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?

I saw that in my wallet too name zepi.io token. And when i open the comment section in bscscan.com. All comments says its a scammed and its dangerious if we link this token to our wallet addresses like trust wallet or metamask. Need to be careful on this scammed because we saw this inside our wallet. Need to find my way if there a procedure or something to get this unknown token entering our wallets.

[usaha jaya]

The scammers have often made fake tokens and continue to distribute them, empty tokens like that are a lot in wallets nowadays, maybe experienced users will ignore it, but for beginners they might try to exchange them but it would be nice if you always look for it. information on forums and in telegram groups or other groups to find out whether the tokens are fake or genuine so that it is not wasted to exchange them.

[wajik-tempe]

The scammers have often made fake tokens and continue to distribute them, empty tokens like that are a lot in wallets nowadays, maybe experienced users will ignore it, but for beginners they might try to exchange them but it would be nice if you always look for it. information on forums and in telegram groups or other groups to find out whether the tokens are fake or genuine so that it is not wasted to exchange them.

This incidents are popping up since SWAP features is available in many platforms. The convinience in doing trade between tokens is make the users are not aware of what they are doing in swap transaction, it make the scammers or bad guys are having a chance to steal people's token by swapping to their trash tokens.
So as a users we have to be more careful with doing any transaction in cryptocurrency no matter how small the amount is because it will be our habit every transactions.

[TastyChillySauce00]

This fake token sending is happening a lot, many of the address owned by big investors also very common to have such fake tokens which sometime have value displayed that can be real or just fake but most of the time if the big investors that owned the address just ignoring it, it can be a fake token.
The only wisest way to deal with it is to ignore it so anyone will not get scammed by this kind of fake token or anyone can simply send it to the burning address that's usually being used for big projects to burn their tokens to reduce the total supply. There are many tokens created in BSC or ETH and many of them probably created for this and some of them got listed in etherscan or BSCscan as ordinary token. Nowadays, there are so many people who are able to create such token so this kind of practice should be expected.

[bitcub]

Because of BSC low gas fee, these spammers are sending spam coins in thousand of BSC wallet. When you try to trade it on pancakeswap you will be amazed that these coins appears to have value but will cost you gas fee. Once you fall from this scam, you traded your coin and the scammer earns a large portion in Liquidity.

[john_nautica]

Where did you experience that? in Ethereum network? I recently created BEP20 Address and I saw that I have some coins that came to my wallet I think this are scam coins I usually ignore it but whenever I'm trying to look in the explorer it's really annoying to see these coins since it's been mixed with the current assets that I have, I just hope there's a way to delete it.