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

[Broadanbig]

Remove any tokens that you suspect to be scams from your wallet. It's possible that one day you might visit a website that offers those tokens for sale, and that very website could be fraudulent. It could potentially gain access to and execute transactions on your wallet.

I think i should tell you this, any attempt to transact or to talk of moving that scam coin out from that wallet automatically grant the malware bot permission to invade and steal all token on that wallet. The best you can do is to remove all your coin from that wallet leaving only that scam coin if you constantly transact with that wallet there is every possibility that one day mistakenly you might out of trying to meet up with time forget yourself and transact that coin and if that happens, your coin are all gone.  So the best alternative to avoid such coin is to remove all your from that wallet to another to be on the safe side. Do not make the mistake of transacting or moving that scam coin if you see them on your wallet.

[Psynthax]

Remove any tokens that you suspect to be scams from your wallet. It's possible that one day you might visit a website that offers those tokens for sale, and that very website could be fraudulent. It could potentially gain access to and execute transactions on your wallet.

quite ironic, the act of removing the coin from your wallet will instead make you lose your asset because thats really what those scammers want you to do.
just ignore these scam tokens, majority of wallet nowadays have option to just ignore these scam token therefore you actually don't need to do anything.

[Cadaver20]

Such tokens come not only in your wallet but in all of our wallets. These are not swappable to any Dex. These can be swapped to their own phishing sites. And if you go to swap on these phishing sites, your wallet will be hacked. So never go to swap these tokens. I never click on these tokens in my wallet.

[yazher]

I assume this will happen in the future because two years ago I also received some random tokens out of nowhere on my Binance wallet and I wondered how I ended up getting that huge amount of tokens, but when I realized something was wrong and saw what this is all about, I completely ignored those tokens and resume to my usual routine trading and playing NFT games back then. I guess just because our wallet addresses have been displayed in the free NFTs and like it, others also took advantage by listing them and selling them to the scammers to send us those tokens which are obviously lures for us to bite their traps. so it's better to ignore it and don't bother about it because until now, it has been there in my wallet and I haven't done anything about it.

[danherbias07]

I usually just ignore this and I have lots in my Ethereum account mostly from the ICO projects before that are either bankrupt or just mere scams in the end. Some of the coins are sent from unknown projects and I guess it's also my mistake from joining groups that I should've avoided before.
There's really nothing you can do about this, an option would be expensive to send these coins/tokens to another account but that means paying up the transaction fees. If you have loads of it then you may be spending a lot so ignoring them would be the best choice.
Another option is to create a new account and minimize the number of coins sent to you, just avoid joining Telegram groups that have something to do with cryptocurrencies. That way you can lessen the number of tokens sent to you.
This kind of problem had been more active back when airdrops were in the trend.

[Teraboy]

like many have said, if you don't mind, the only way is just to ignore these token, because there are many various ways and means that could be taken advantage of by them to drain your wallet.
and swapping it just for the sake if removing it could be one of their way therefore anyone should be careful when dealing with these token, best course of action is just to consider these scam token inexistent.

[irsykes]

When a wallet that has started running spam coin transactions can automatically enter our wallet, you won't be the only one who gets the coins. Most wallets have started to be active. The key is to leave the trash coins in your wallet, don't touch them or connect them with dex. big danger can come quickly to eliminate the balance in the wallet. Most beginners who enter the crypto world become victims of wallet fund theft

[mdzahed134]

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 think every single people’s holding SCAM/SPAM tokens, because i can't protect myself after changing my WALLET address, in new address even which is not using in any bounty but i received a few spam tokens. So, there are no permanent solution to stop receiving such tokens, you can just hide it. Interesting thing is some tokens listed in PancakeSwap, and when you will try to swap then your wallet can be hacked, i heard such several incidents.

[avikz]

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.

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My situation is not much different! I have around 20+ dead tokens in my wallet which I can't sell any more. These were mostly earned during my ICO bounty days. We can't do anything apart from ignoring them. That's the best thing we can do now.

I don't know if we can burn them or remove them from the wallet because these are available on chain and any wallet will show them as soon as it is connected to the chain. Best to ignore them!

[tvplus006]

...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.

It doesn't matter if you publish your address publicly or try to hide it from the public, such spam tokens will still come to you if any activity is noticed on the new wallet. This is due to the fact that the sender does not use any publicly published data, but extracts the necessary information from the blockchain.

[JeffBrad12]

When a wallet that has started running spam coin transactions can automatically enter our wallet, you won't be the only one who gets the coins. Most wallets have started to be active. The key is to leave the trash coins in your wallet, don't touch them or connect them with dex. big danger can come quickly to eliminate the balance in the wallet. Most beginners who enter the crypto world become victims of wallet fund theft

also you can simply just use new wallet to avoid the scam coins, since generating one isn't that difficult.
if someone got so irritated with the presence of these random scam coins then they should just avoid it altogether by switching wallet, but doesn't mean you won't ever receive such scam coin again.
in the future they will definitely send some scam coin to you if your wallet have some funds that they are interested in.
these scammers are so eager to get your money they'd always target any wallet with stablecoin for example.

[justdimin]

I usually just ignore this and I have lots in my Ethereum account mostly from the ICO projects before that are either bankrupt or just mere scams in the end. Some of the coins are sent from unknown projects and I guess it's also my mistake from joining groups that I should've avoided before.
There's really nothing you can do about this, an option would be expensive to send these coins/tokens to another account but that means paying up the transaction fees. If you have loads of it then you may be spending a lot so ignoring them would be the best choice.
Another option is to create a new account and minimize the number of coins sent to you, just avoid joining Telegram groups that have something to do with cryptocurrencies. That way you can lessen the number of tokens sent to you.
This kind of problem had been more active back when airdrops were in the trend.

I agree that it is going to keep being an issue when the bull starts back up again. We haven't seen bull for a few years now, but next year or the year after that it will start again and we are going to be pretty upset about it again. I think that will be the time we will start seeing these things again, and it will not matter.

I hope that people could end up with something that should end up with a good result eventually, but that is going to end up with a result that should not be all that simple. I believe that we are going to end up with a result that will be a bit more dangerous if we are not careful. So, just let the tokens be there, and do not do something about them, if you try to, they may hack into your account.

[AliMan]

Same here with my trust wallet, I got lots of those shitcoins roaming around binance chain network if I checked it through their chain. These coins has nothing to do with legit project, most of them is confirmed spam and has no value at all. One time a scammer offered my to buy my pi asset holdings, and literally pay me fake usdt but I never trusted the scheme that he used because I found out that it was not a real usdt.

We should be vigilant at all times, never trust the strangers around us especially when it comes to crypto payments. Scammer doesn't care our problems, eventually they're going to be our worst nightmare if we deal with them! so be careful at all times.

[irsykes]

When a wallet that has started running spam coin transactions can automatically enter our wallet, you won't be the only one who gets the coins. Most wallets have started to be active. The key is to leave the trash coins in your wallet, don't touch them or connect them with dex. big danger can come quickly to eliminate the balance in the wallet. Most beginners who enter the crypto world become victims of wallet fund theft

also you can simply just use new wallet to avoid the scam coins, since generating one isn't that difficult.
if someone got so irritated with the presence of these random scam coins then they should just avoid it altogether by switching wallet, but doesn't mean you won't ever receive such scam coin again.
in the future they will definitely send some scam coin to you if your wallet have some funds that they are interested in.
these scammers are so eager to get your money they'd always target any wallet with stablecoin for example.

Now I prefer to transfer the balance to the market, it is more comfortable for me to have the money in the market. to eliminate the fear of being stolen. Certainly many people are annoyed by the presence of these rubbish coins, my advice is to move them to the market if are in doubt about wallet, for example if there are certain things in your wallet we can do as we wish such as coin airdrop or task airdrop

[taufik123]

Now I prefer to transfer the balance to the market, it is more comfortable for me to have the money in the market. to eliminate the fear of being stolen. Certainly many people are annoyed by the presence of these rubbish coins, my advice is to move them to the market if are in doubt about wallet, for example if there are certain things in your wallet we can do as we wish such as coin airdrop or task airdrop

Transferring all your balance to the marketplace does not guarantee you will be safe either.
You have to look at the coins you have, sometimes some coins that have a price at your address do not have a market listing and are only available on Dex.

You also have to see all coins have their own market or CEX & DEX, it will all be scattered and will not be one, so this will provide a lot of costs to move it if your valuable coins are many.

Prefer to use a hardware wallet that is already secure enough and choose a hardware wallet that is recommended by everyone.
You must separate the main address and the address for airdrop, because the airdrop address will be very vulnerable to being hacked or exposed to coin dusting traps.

[irsykes]

Now I prefer to transfer the balance to the market, it is more comfortable for me to have the money in the market. to eliminate the fear of being stolen. Certainly many people are annoyed by the presence of these rubbish coins, my advice is to move them to the market if are in doubt about wallet, for example if there are certain things in your wallet we can do as we wish such as coin airdrop or task airdrop

Transferring all your balance to the marketplace does not guarantee you will be safe either.
You have to look at the coins you have, sometimes some coins that have a price at your address do not have a market listing and are only available on Dex.

You also have to see all coins have their own market or CEX & DEX, it will all be scattered and will not be one, so this will provide a lot of costs to move it if your valuable coins are many.

Prefer to use a hardware wallet that is already secure enough and choose a hardware wallet that is recommended by everyone.
You must separate the main address and the address for airdrop, because the airdrop address will be very vulnerable to being hacked or exposed to coin dusting traps.

For example, when you get a distribution of rewards from an airdrop or bounty, it is more convenient to exchange USDT, BUSD stable tokens and then transfer them to the market. If the cost calculation is still good, I will do it, but if the cost is excessive, I will leave the coins in my wallet until I have a good calculated price. Thank you for your recommendation, good hardware wallet suggestion

[abel1337]

Leave that alone. There's nothing to gain if you interact with it and there's a chance that you can get hacked if you are unlucky enough. Don't be blinded by tokens that has a fake value that appears on your wallet, most of the time those are scam tokens. I had these useless tokens that were sent to me by random people, I abandoned my old wallet before that has so many useless tokens including those shitcoins that I didn't intend to be stuck on my wallet for years of using it. Better be safe than sorry.

[lalabotax]

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.

It seems like this is often done by scammers, they have certain goals for this. Hemm, this is really annoying because there are more and more of them. Not just 3 but more than that, and many more. At first I also felt like I had never bought these tokens, but it turns out they are increasing over time. And this is annoying because they are just shit tokens. Not only that, actually it doesn't matter and just leave it, as long as you don't click or follow the directions for further suspicious things. but unfortunately, it becomes like dirtying wallets. Because there are more shit tokens like that than the real coins we have. But what else, you can't remove all of that from your wallet. That's the risk when we share our wallets publicly, usually when we enter our wallet address when participating in airdrops or bounties which can be seen publicly by everyone.

[Kelvinid]

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.

Don't get stressed with these shitcoins, just ignore them. In fact, we all have the same experience and we were surprised to have these coins because we never expected it. We sometimes think it was an airdrop or someone mistakenly sent it to the wrong address. Well, the best thing to do is not to deal with them as we are not sure where it is coming from. Some scammers make use of this tactic to scam people but make no conversation with them or else, you will fall into their tricks.

[bittick]

Leave that alone. There's nothing to gain if you interact with it and there's a chance that you can get hacked if you are unlucky enough. Don't be blinded by tokens that has a fake value that appears on your wallet, most of the time those are scam tokens. I had these useless tokens that were sent to me by random people, I abandoned my old wallet before that has so many useless tokens including those shitcoins that I didn't intend to be stuck on my wallet for years of using it. Better be safe than sorry.

its really confusing dealing with these scam token in general, if we try to get rid of it we might get hacked, and if we just keep it there untouched it will become eyesore, alas thats just how it is with cryptocurrencies.
too many scam tokens created and quite literally infestating like a parasite in our wallet but there's nothing we can do.