Scam tokens in my wallet

[PercT4b]

Sometimes I connect my wallet with DeBank because I try to look for something strange and I found some tokens that I have never bought, so I instantly thought that was a scammy airdrop.


The question I have is, how do you activate the malicious contracts?....I'm asking this because I wanna try to import one of those tokens (I found a namesake on CMC and want to see if it's the same token present in my wallet), so, importing the token is enough to activate the malicious contract (I don't want to accidentally activate it and let it destroy my account)?

[ryzaadit]

You can't control a dusting attack on your wallet.

The token will automatically send to your wallet via smart contract every time you have a transaction, so the best thing you should do is never trade, exchange, send a token you never know especially accept the contract. Just leave it on your wallet without touch them, you will be safe.

[watergold]

I think the best option is to do nothing about the token scam as you said.
because indeed when we try to tamper with such as by exchanging or being traded, if seen from some people they lose their assets because of this.
making the token as if it doesn't exist I think is a pretty good thing because coins like this make us go awry and we can't do anything to filter out coins like this.

[sukmo]

You can't control a dusting attack on your wallet.

The token will automatically send to your wallet via smart contract every time you have a transaction, so the best thing you should do is never trade, exchange, send a token you never know especially accept the contract. Just leave it on your wallet without touch them, you will be safe.

Yes, you say, let it be the best solution to maintain our assets.
Lately I also experienced the same thing where there was a token coming in suddenly and after I searched it turned out that the coin was spam.
I hope for my friends to be careful if you experience something like the one I encountered, I hope that you still let the token and never try to import or trade.
To avoid bad things in the future.

[Review Master]

The question I have is, how do you activate the malicious contracts?....I'm asking this because I wanna try to import one of those tokens (I found a namesake on CMC and want to see if it's the same token present in my wallet), so, importing the token is enough to activate the malicious contract (I don't want to accidentally activate it and let it destroy my account)?

As far i know, importing any tokens in your wallet won't active the contract until you're trying to sell on dex and make approval transection into that dex. So just ignore those fake/scam tokens like @ryzaadit said. Also, don't submit your private key or seed phrase into any unknown dex/AMM as we don't need to submit the access point to any defi projects to interact and we can do transections using metamask or other dapp wallet.

One more thing for those who wanna reduce the spending amount for any smart contract on ethereum, they can do this on Etherscan's Token Approval page using metamask. Basically, we provide unlimited access to any smart contract for spending any tokens from our wallet whenever we make an approval transection to do trade/swap into dex/amm and it's better to set it limited so that fake projects can't drain funds from our wallet by using their smart contract. Hopefully, bscscan and polygonscan will have the samething as those are also products from etherscan team. 

[yhiaali3]

I have at least ten of these malicious tokens in my Binance wallet, in fact, I do not know exactly where they came from, but I know that they are malicious tokens that I never approach because they may cause damage to the wallet, I tried to find a way to get rid of them and delete them from the wallet but I did not succeed.
 Here are some malicious tokens that you should avoid:

EVER , ABFIN, AABEK, BestAir, BSCmello, Zepe.

These are some but not all, so any token you suspect never approach it.

[ene1980]

The question I have is, how do you activate the malicious contracts?....I'm asking this because I wanna try to import one of those tokens (I found a namesake on CMC and want to see if it's the same token present in my wallet), so, importing the token is enough to activate the malicious contract (I don't want to accidentally activate it and let it destroy my account)?

Connecting the wallet and trying to move the scam tokens will be more than enough to active them, if you want to experiment, move the coins from the wallet that has valuation and then experiment with the fake tokens.

If you think that the tokens are listed in CMC make sure you check the contract address to make sure that it the same token.

[zonefloor]

such tokens were sent to many people's wallets. It is very common especially in bsc network. I strongly recommend that you do not do anything on them. If you make a transaction and if you aprove these transactions, you may face theft of all the assets in your wallet. It's best to ignore these token types. As long as you do not add a contract to your wallet, it will not catch your eye. After making a transaction, a note is written in the tx section as fake pushing.

[livingfree]

Sometimes I connect my wallet with DeBank because I try to look for something strange and I found some tokens that I have never bought, so I instantly thought that was a scammy airdrop.


The question I have is, how do you activate the malicious contracts?....I'm asking this because I wanna try to import one of those tokens (I found a namesake on CMC and want to see if it's the same token present in my wallet), so, importing the token is enough to activate the malicious contract (I don't want to accidentally activate it and let it destroy my account)?

Technically, I don't know how.

But when there's an unusual token that has been sent to you, you can't do anything with that but to resent it whomever sent you or just ignore it.

It is annoying to see it on your wallet as a dust but you have to bear with it.

[mbakruroh]

Sometimes I connect my wallet with DeBank because I try to look for something strange and I found some tokens that I have never bought, so I instantly thought that was a scammy airdrop.


The question I have is, how do you activate the malicious contracts?....I'm asking this because I wanna try to import one of those tokens (I found a namesake on CMC and want to see if it's the same token present in my wallet), so, importing the token is enough to activate the malicious contract (I don't want to accidentally activate it and let it destroy my account)?

We can only distinguish real tokens from scams tokens on smart contracts. But not in the sense of the word all tokens with the same name are scams, but there are also tokens that are the result of testing codes from real tokens. Apart from that, the smart contract change will also cause the old token to be detected at the same price as the new smart contract token. We can see in the tx column it says the old contract.

[tvplus006]

...The question I have is, how do you activate the malicious contracts?....I'm asking this because I wanna try to import one of those tokens (I found a namesake on CMC and want to see if it's the same token present in my wallet), so, importing the token is enough to activate the malicious contract (I don't want to accidentally activate it and let it destroy my account)?

You don't even need to try anything, but just compare the contract of the coin you received with the namesake, which is on Coinmarketcap. If you did not participate in the airdrop of this coin and did not buy it, then most likely it is a scam coin and you cannot take any action with respect to it.