What to do with spam and scam tokens on my wallet?

[MusaMohamed]

It's address poisoning scam.

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[Winterfrost]

Ignore it and within a short period of time they will get deleted from your wallet. Thanks to the security level of our wallet

[Chilwell]

The best thing to do is to have an offline wallet and transfer all valuable coins there but yes, it cost you some money to do it.

His better I use my money no matter how much is going to cost me, my people mannerly said that the amount of money used to stop war is not up to one percent of what the war will destroy. Even though I will use all of my savings to save my future is better, this has happened to me severally scammers stolen fund from my wallet which I keep on creating new wallet all the time. I don't temper with spam or scam token because I had ever did it before but it was not on my favour rather was against me, because I lose all my bnb that I had in my wallet then.

[knowngunman]

Hi, please tell me, I have information that my wallet (BNB Smart Chain) has 9 tokens stored on it. Of them 2 tokens are normal: BNB and LUNA, the other tokens were sent to me by scammers. And now they are stored on my wallet. How can I get rid of them? How can I stop such "left" tokens from being sent to me? What do you do with such tokens? I tried to see these tokens through PancakeSwap and Trust Wallet, but they are not displayed there.

There's absolutely nothing you can do about those unwanted tokens than to stay away from them. Your wallet address is refer to as the public keys that's visible to all and anyone can send token or coins into your public address with or without your permission. The tokens are not harmful and can not affect the real tokens you have as long as you don't interact with them. The moment you attempt to interact with them and mistakenly grant them access to your funds, that's when it becomes harmful and can steal from your wallet in disguise as gas fees. As far as you stay away from them, you're absolutely safe.

If you did not work for it, then you have no reason to attempt to sell it. Nobody is sharing free coins as you use to see in the internet. It's attempt to lure you and fall for their tricks. Any questionable coins in your wallet should be ignored.

[Razmirraz]

You can't delete them, hiding useless tokens is one option you can do so that they don't damage your view when opening the wallet. Your wallet address is already held by the token sender, you cannot stop them from sending tokens you don't want. Just hope that one day they send you a token that has a price.

[Pmalek]

Of course, if they annoy you, you can send them to another wallet, but this will not help you dramatically, since after a while you will receive similar tokens again.

You will just be wasting the native coins of the underlying network on transaction fees by moving them from your address.

Mostly youll notice they show some value on etherscan or any explorer but thats a fake and you need to confirm the actual value on monitoring sites such as coingecko or where they are being traded to be sure.

I once received an airdrop of some project I never heard of to my ETH address worth several hundred dollars. The issue with those tokens was they were locked by a smart contract. They were traded on an exchange, but you couldn't move them unless you underwent KYC and the developers unlocked them on your address manually. After some time, the value of those tokens fell to zero.

You cannot stop someone from sending tokens to you, but you can limit the spread of your address by not posting then on every airdrop you join or in random websites, this does not solve the problem as addresses are public, but it can limit the possibility.

When the address poisoning scam hit the Tron network, I started receiving small amounts of coins from scammers but I never participated in any airdrops or posted my address in public. Scammers are monitoring the blockchain. If they notice significant activity on some addresses, they will attempt their scams to trick those users.

[LogitechMouse]

This is called address poisoning according to Faisal2202. It is method used by scammers to probably monitor the address and it is hard to stop this kind of attack because you can not stop people from sending you coins or tokens. If you are uncomfortable then a change of address is needed.

Here is also a thread by Pmalek you can read through get some measures on attacks like this

I'm already a Hero Member (going Legendary), but now I can say that "ranks don't matter when it comes to knowledge" because I don't know that term "address poisoning". If only I didn't read this post, I won't know what would be the main reason behind these scam tokens being distributed. Thanks for sharing this, and the links.

So in short, they're just sending tokens just to monitor the address? If that's the case then it isn't harmful then as long as you will not give money, and personal information to them, and not download anything suspicious online? Like what @EL MOHA said, there's nothing that you can do with that OP because you can't control the scammers to send you tokens.

Change of address is the best solution with this one if you find it annoying, but I guess just ignore it would be an another option as well.

[EL MOHA]

I'm already a Hero Member (going Legendary), but now I can say that "ranks don't matter when it comes to knowledge" because I don't know that term "address poisoning". If only I didn't read this post, I won't know what would be the main reason behind these scam tokens being distributed. Thanks for sharing this, and the links.

I would say this is part of the beauty of this forum, you learn vital things for free from people who go have vast knowledge or experience on the subject matter. Even I wasn’t much aware of this scam not until I was going through that thread and found out what it is called.

So in short, they're just sending tokens just to monitor the address? If that's the case then it isn't harmful then as long as you will not give money, and personal information to them, and not download anything suspicious online?

Change of address is the best solution with this one if you find it annoying, but I guess just ignore it would be an another option as well.

Exactly you would have to be careful with your dealings from that wallet and any one connected with it, scammers can take advantage of just anything and we all know they would certainly only get access to it through phishing attack,

Just as you said if one is not comfortable then he can just change wallet. But even if you change it you can not send directly to this new address from the old one because it will still link. Rather you would have to spend it through exchange and then probably back to the new Wallet. But overall you do not need to panic if one is not doing anything wrong

[albon]

Hi, please tell me, I have information that my wallet (BNB Smart Chain) has 9 tokens stored on it. Of them 2 tokens are normal: BNB and LUNA, the other tokens were sent to me by scammers. And now they are stored on my wallet. How can I get rid of them? How can I stop such "left" tokens from being sent to me? What do you do with such tokens? I tried to see these tokens through PancakeSwap and Trust Wallet, but they are not displayed there.

Quite simply, these scam tokens cannot be eliminated, and I do not recommend ever interacting with their contracts. Just look at them as if you did not see them, and there is no problem in leaving them idle in your wallet. Do not pay attention to any token sent to your wallet without your intervention and knowledge. Also, it is not possible to stop receiving rug pull or pump and dump tokens that scammers send to you and thousands of wallets.

There is a big chance that you will not receive these coins if your wallet address is private and not visible to the public or if you do not use it to participate in airdrops and bounties. As for me, I have more than 20 scam tokens in my wallet, and I have never thought about trying to swap/exchange them because if I did, they could steal the assets in my wallet and my fees. It is a considerable risk, and nothing valuable comes from nowhere.

In addition, if you add a fraudulent currency contract to Pancakeswap, you will find a security audit of the token contract, which may make you avoid it. Still, you should not rely on this audit to a large extent, and the solution is to ignore these scam tokens completely.

[iv4n]

It's simple, create a new wallet. The one with which you have already tried everything continue to use it for the same things, for all new projects and untested things, airdrops, and all other drops... And with the new wallet, try to be much more careful and use it only for tested things.

It's good (and smart/wise) to have more than one wallet anyway...

[@sriyan]

These are the solutions you can try out for that.

1. Ignore it
2. Hide the scam tokens.
3. Don't interact with the scam token like swap or bridging. If you have interacted already, your wallet is gone. So you have to create a new wallet. That will be the best solution.

[Oasisman]

These are the solutions you can try out for that.

1. Ignore it
2. Hide the scam tokens.

I don't personally recommend this. These tokens were being sent by the scammers for a reason, as long these tokens are in your wallet, you are most probably under their radar. So, if you knew your being targeted by the scammers, it's better to move to another wallet and permanently leave that address, because if you keep using the same address, chances are you're going to lose some assets without you knowing especially when theres a lot of aciltivities within that address and the stored assets are pretty much attractive to the scammer already, you'd be in danger for sure.

[Upgrade00]

You cannot stop someone from sending tokens to you, but you can limit the spread of your address by not posting then on every airdrop you join or in random websites, this does not solve the problem as addresses are public, but it can limit the possibility.

When the address poisoning scam hit the Tron network, I started receiving small amounts of coins from scammers but I never participated in any airdrops or posted my address in public. Scammers are monitoring the blockchain. If they notice significant activity on some addresses, they will attempt their scams to trick those users.

This was why I pointed out that addresses are public, meaning you can still be a victim if you never post your address on a public platform. Heck, your public key is publicly available after you make an outbound transaction and an address can be picked up if you search for it's details onna block explorer.

However to some extent, not putting your address out there on every unverified platform will help reduce the possibility.

[Silberman]

Hi, please tell me, I have information that my wallet (BNB Smart Chain) has 9 tokens stored on it. Of them 2 tokens are normal: BNB and LUNA, the other tokens were sent to me by scammers. And now they are stored on my wallet. How can I get rid of them? How can I stop such "left" tokens from being sent to me? What do you do with such tokens? I tried to see these tokens through PancakeSwap and Trust Wallet, but they are not displayed there.

I know it can be an eyesore to have those tokens in your wallets, however as long as you do not interact with them you should be fine, now if you really want to not have them in your wallet anymore you will have to send your coins to another address, however this is only a temporary solution as nothing is stopping those scammers to send you more coins to that address, and unfortunately this means that most likely you will just waste your money on fees by trying to avoid them, which explains why a great deal of the community has chosen to ignore them as their default reaction.

[Broadanbig]

These are the solutions you can try out for that.

1. Ignore it
2. Hide the scam tokens.

I don't personally recommend this. These tokens were being sent by the scammers for a reason, as long these tokens are in your wallet, you are most probably under their radar. So, if you knew your being targeted by the scammers, it's better to move to another wallet and permanently leave that address, because if you keep using the same address, chances are you're going to lose some assets without you knowing especially when theres a lot of aciltivities within that address and the stored assets are pretty much attractive to the scammer already, you'd be in danger for sure.

This is absolutely the right thing to do mate. Leaving that wallet to another would be very much safer than to continue with that same wallet. Creating a new wallet would keep you safe when you remove your token from that malware infested wallet to the new wallet. The presence of the other scam coin would not threaten your wallet anymore as the possibility or tendency of interacting with those scam coin is no more. Constant activities on wallet sometimes causes one to possibly make mistakes which is very much dangerous and if any error is made by  interacting with the scam coin, automatically, the scammer has gained access through the malware bot to empty your wallet for you which you would have no knowledge about when the process is going on.

[libert19]

Don't do anything about them, just ignore. You may change address but still scam/spam tokens appear there as well, so it's futile to constantly change address too.

I have hundreds of them, by trying to get rid of them, you merely get into jaws of scammers.

[samuraijin]

Ignore it and within a short period of time they will get deleted from your wallet. Thanks to the security level of our wallet

What they probably mean is that spam coins make their wallet look very dirty with spam coins. I am also very disturbed by the existence of spam coins like this, and plus it is a fraudulent coin that could hack our wallet if we don't do it on purpose. unintentionally, at least Etherscan can add a new feature for users to close spam coins so they cannot be seen by users.

[Questat]

These are the solutions you can try out for that.

1. Ignore it
2. Hide the scam tokens.

I don't personally recommend this. These tokens were being sent by the scammers for a reason, as long these tokens are in your wallet, you are most probably under their radar. So, if you knew your being targeted by the scammers, it's better to move to another wallet and permanently leave that address, because if you keep using the same address, chances are you're going to lose some assets without you knowing especially when theres a lot of aciltivities within that address and the stored assets are pretty much attractive to the scammer already, you'd be in danger for sure.

That wallet has already been exposed to scammers and yes, many incidents happen where someone (scammer) will ask to send back their money and take a chance to scam. Ignoring would be best but must be prepared as well for what will happen next. Because even if you create a new wallet for the sake of escaping from these scammers, they can still trace the event of your transaction and catch you in a new wallet. If ever we create another wallet, better not to connect this to our old wallet.

[bayu7adi]

Very well, if we're not allowed to transact with these fraudulent tokens, would separating the balances be a more viable option? For instance, in a BSC wallet, there are both BNB tokens and these spam tokens. Now, I intend to create a new BSC wallet and transfer the BNB from the wallet containing these spam tokens to the newly created one. There won't be any interaction with the spam tokens. Is that a secure approach?

My sole intention is to differentiate between the tokens I genuinely use and those that are considered junk. So, at the very least, I need to have two wallets for this filtering process, where one wallet's address is publicized, and the other remains undisclosed.

[gurunanakji777]

Simply disregard such spam/shit coins. We cannot prevent them from entering our wallets. We are all facing this issue, and everyone is encountering these unwanted coins in their wallets. The key takeaway is that we should not connect our wallets to these spam coins for selling purposes, as there is a high risk of the wallet being hacked. Generally, we should be cautious and avoid connecting our wallets to any coins that we do not have knowledge of or have not purchased to ensure safety.