Dust payments to my wallet what is he trying to do?

[Warkop]

1 of my wallets storaging some coins for years back in 2018

somebody has constantly been sending 0.33 cents to me what is he trying to do?
can somebody explain if i were to move coins out will those cents he sent me affect anything or is this all tracking purposes by someone

If you thought that he is tracking you or watching you, why not use a new wallet and transfer your fund to a new one. This kind of technique dusting is usually used for monitoring of potential victim. Yes this is possibly trying to hack you or follow your assets on your wallet.

Things like that in my opinion are the same, because if he creates a new wallet address and transfers funds to his new wallet all transactions will be seen and tracked again by criminals, so if he wants to create a new address, he has to exchange the funds he has in fiat first. , then afterwards look at the best moments to repurchase and use a new address, maybe this way it will be better to avoid constant tracking with criminals.

[pawanjain]

1 of my wallets storaging some coins for years back in 2018

somebody has constantly been sending 0.33 cents to me what is he trying to do?
can somebody explain if i were to move coins out will those cents he sent me affect anything or is this all tracking purposes by someone

If you thought that he is tracking you or watching you, why not use a new wallet and transfer your fund to a new one. This kind of technique dusting is usually used for monitoring of potential victim. Yes this is possibly trying to hack you or follow your assets on your wallet.

the problem is how did he know my wallet in the first place?
it seems like if i send my coins to another wallet i would also just get few cents sent over to there aswell.

It's not so hard to get the bitcoin address since your coins are stored on the blockchain and anybody with a full node can see how many coins you are holding.
Most probably you are not the only one to whom these dust coins are being sent. The sender would have sent these dust coins to hundreds of others as well.
The sender is generally making these transactions to track accounts with coins in them. As the others said, there are few workarounds to not use those coins at all.

[jrrsparkles]

Dust attack is actually happening to deanonymize a user's crypto wallet and the most extreme consequence is they can link your address when you send the dust pooled with your assets to any of the KYC required platform then they will somehow access to the database and find your real identity then steal Bitcoins from you by threatening or in other ways.

But don't worry the chances of happening all these things are under 0.0001%, if your wallet let you to freeze particular UTXO then just do it that is the only fix for this attack.

[teosanru]

1 of my wallets storaging some coins for years back in 2018

somebody has constantly been sending 0.33 cents to me what is he trying to do?
can somebody explain if i were to move coins out will those cents he sent me affect anything or is this all tracking purposes by someone

Is it bitcoin? Because if it's some other coin that has a community reward system, it might even be a reward to you. Usually such rewards are distributed to all the holders and come out due to the fees spent by the users while making transactions. For example, I remember Spectre had such an idea and recently a meme coin called Kishu Inu had the same property, but if it's happening in bitcoin it's quite strange. I have read other posts regarding the Dust attack which is quite interesting, I have never heard of any such thing, but as far as I know this shouldn't be too dangerous until your private key is safe.

[jrrsparkles]

1 of my wallets storaging some coins for years back in 2018

somebody has constantly been sending 0.33 cents to me what is he trying to do?
can somebody explain if i were to move coins out will those cents he sent me affect anything or is this all tracking purposes by someone

Is it bitcoin? Because if it's some other coin that has a community reward system, it might even be a reward to you. Usually such rewards are distributed to all the holders and come out due to the fees spent by the users while making transactions. For example, I remember Spectre had such an idea and recently a meme coin called Kishu Inu had the same property, but if it's happening in bitcoin it's quite strange. I have read other posts regarding the Dust attack which is quite interesting, I have never heard of any such thing, but as far as I know this shouldn't be too dangerous until your private key is safe.

Bitcoin never had such schemes and you know the transaction fees are actually more than the send amount so these all are targeted towards random people and find their identity. Even though dust attack is not harmful to the private keys still it affects our privacy which can be a real dangerous when someone holds few hundred Bitcoins and the hacker find the real identity of them.

[terrorJR]

this may be a dusting technique that has already done a lot of similar things, and usually it's probably a monitoring mode to look at your wallet and get ready to hack.
it might be better if you move your valuable assets to a new wallet because it is possible that the wallet you are using is being watched by someone.

[savetheFORUM]

1 of my wallets storaging some coins for years back in 2018

somebody has constantly been sending 0.33 cents to me what is he trying to do?
can somebody explain if i were to move coins out will those cents he sent me affect anything or is this all tracking purposes by someone

I don’t know about this, some of the comments are saying that the person that is sending dust payment your address is trying to track you, and that gets me wondering how exactly is this person trying to track you by just sending dust payments to your address? So if it is all about tracking, what exactly are they really trying to track? Because, sending dust payments to an address doesn’t really seem to me like tracking, or maybe they're just trying to know whether the address is active or not?. Maybe if you don’t feel safe making use of the address you can just send out the coins that are stored on that address to a different address, especially one that is of cold storage.