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

[taufik123]

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

Exchange it directly to USDT to see how the coin develops, if it has good potential for the future then hold it.
After all, the rewards given from Airdrop or Bounty are also not that big.

Most are still in the development stage or projects that have been successful immediately have a good market.
You can transfer USDT, BUSD, or other stablecoins to the market using a network that has low fees such as the BSC network, Matic, Optimis, Arbitrum, etc.

Suggestions for Hard wallets that I think are still good are Ledges Nano S or X, Trezor Model T or one, and Safepal S1 or X1.

Just choose, but some hardware wallets have their own advantages and disadvantages such as Ledger Nano which can extract private keys.
Research before you buy.

See more details here
https://thebitcoinhole.com/

[shinratensei_]

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.

its getting difficult to just ignore it when we follow some airdrops and can misled us into thinking that these scam token is actually coin we gained from airdrop while its not.
it can expose use to the risk of losing money because we might accidentally swap them which might have happened to many people already.
usually its best to use new wallet that doesn't have the scam token being sent around but sometime after few months the new wallet will also receive same scam token.
its honestly irritating with these problem and there's no real way to solve it than just to ignore it.

[AakZaki]

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.

The more activity there is on an address, the greater its potential for receiving spam tokens. That's what I also experienced at the same address, even though I never shared it with anyone or shared it on the forum. quite a lot of scam tokens are starting to come. Moreover, if whales' addresses continue to be active, then they will also be targeted. always hide incoming spam tokens and don't try to sell them, it's just a trap for dusting.

[irsykes]

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

Exchange it directly to USDT to see how the coin develops, if it has good potential for the future then hold it.
After all, the rewards given from Airdrop or Bounty are also not that big.

Most are still in the development stage or projects that have been successful immediately have a good market.
You can transfer USDT, BUSD, or other stablecoins to the market using a network that has low fees such as the BSC network, Matic, Optimis, Arbitrum, etc.

Suggestions for Hard wallets that I think are still good are Ledges Nano S or X, Trezor Model T or one, and Safepal S1 or X1.

Just choose, but some hardware wallets have their own advantages and disadvantages such as Ledger Nano which can extract private keys.
Research before you buy.

See more details here
https://thebitcoinhole.com/

It is more dominant to store altcoins on the ethereum network which I think has great potential for the long term, and many new airdrop projects are born from the ethereum network which is better. I will definitely exchange it for more efficient stable coins and transfer it to the market to avoid theft.
I already have a Safepal hard wallet but I have never used it to store altcoins long term.

[gabbie2010]

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.

I think it's better to be safe as an eyesore in the wallet rather than taking the risk of getting rid of them which could lead to a hack, personally I have plenty of those worthless tokens in my ERC myetherwallet such I was even thinking of abandoning the wallet unfortunately nothing can be done to dispose them off I believe wallet makers should establish or create an easier means of getting rid of them without any harm to the wallet or better still create a spam folder where those worthless spam tokens can be transferred to without being visible with the real tokens.

[Xxmodded]

Ignore with all spam or scam token are receiving in your wallet, during not accepted for approving or swap with spam token your wallet secure and don't take serious when any unknow coins landed in your wallet. Usually Polygon and BSC Scan spam coins easily land to our wallet after making transaction between sending coin, receiving coin or make swap coins.
Have been last several years many scam or spam token are receiving in our wallet and seems the scammer not stop yet for sending it because they don't pay highest fees with network Polygon or BSC Scan. If won't with all spam token landed in your wallet, you have make secure and private wallet for saving coins only and not making any transaction yet.

[cute nmp]

I simply ignore them think that is the best thing to do .I have so many of those scam tokens in my wallet some of them are even listed on pancakeswap so that when you try to sell them all your funds will be stolen. Anyone into crypto has to learn to protect their funds from those scammers.

[Rengga Jati]

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.

This happens very often and it's not just you. Have you ever shared your wallet address? If so, they actually sent it to you on purpose, they could be part of the scammers. Because there are lots of tokens like that that are sent to private wallets. And unfortunately there is no way to remove them and stop them from sending such tokens again. If they want to, then they will do it again. Maybe it could be different people or the same person. And this happens not only on BSC wallets but also ERC20 and others. Just be patient, let them be and ignore them even though they are a bit disturbing to the view and sometimes they cover the original tokens that we have because there are so many of them.

[serjent05]

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

According to the given link, address poisoning is not to monitor our address activity but rather to make us commit a mistake by copying an almost identical address and sending the fund to that token.  Others are just a lure to make us commit a mistake by accessing the site of the spam token and connecting our wallet holding our tokens to give them access to our wallet address and hack us of our holdings.

[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.

This happens very often and it's not just you. Have you ever shared your wallet address? If so, they actually sent it to you on purpose, they could be part of the scammers. Because there are lots of tokens like that that are sent to private wallets. And unfortunately there is no way to remove them and stop them from sending such tokens again. If they want to, then they will do it again. Maybe it could be different people or the same person. And this happens not only on BSC wallets but also ERC20 and others. Just be patient, let them be and ignore them even though they are a bit disturbing to the view and sometimes they cover the original tokens that we have because there are so many of them.

Even if you have never shared that address, as long as you have received some money in it and it has been seen by the miners and included in a block on the blockchain that is more than enough for those scammers to target you, especially if they think you have a high enough amount of money, still the best defense against those scam tokens is to simply ignore them, as any attempt to interact with them may cause you to make a mistake and lose your coins.

[Dr.Osh]

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

Yes, it is very difficult to avoid something like this, especially when your wallet address has been flagged by them. personally, I also have quite a lot of spam tokens in my wallet. The only way to avoid that is to replace your wallet with another wallet, or you can just ignore them. I quite believe that people tend to ignore such tokens in their wallets.

[royalfestus]

I am not sure why it concerns you, the hackers send these shitcoins to everyone who is visible on the blockchain so we can be sure that everyone on this forum who have used Web3 or did some ETH stuff has received it in the past. What I suggest you to do is to ignore them and move forward or create a new address if it really bothers you. There were also some projects built to remove dust (shitcoins) by sending it to burn address.

I find it hard to believe that anyone wouldn't be concerned about having unaccounted-for coins in their wallet, especially when these coins pose a risk of theft from your valuable portfolio. I'm very eager to acquire wallets that offer protection or technology capable of preventing such incidents.

[taufik123]

It is more dominant to store altcoins on the ethereum network which I think has great potential for the long term, and many new airdrop projects are born from the ethereum network which is better. I will definitely exchange it for more efficient stable coins and transfer it to the market to avoid theft.
I already have a Safepal hard wallet but I have never used it to store altcoins long term.

The great potential for the long term must see how the altcoin develops.
Even though it is on the Ethereum ERC20 network it is not a guarantee that Altcoin will have good potential.
There are many kinds of altcoins that end up with fraud and many are abandoned.

Whatever network the altcoin is on, take a look and do some research.
If you get it from an airdrop then see how the coin is developed. If it just becomes trash then there is nothing to look forward to.

I have been a Safepal user for more than 2 years and it is still safe and sound until now.
The main security is in the user, Make sure to keep the Phrase or private key well without being known by others.

[bluebit25]

There are a few mentions that I found very helpful for those new to this, perhaps more people need to get used to the fact that everything that comes up in this space works for good. The only choice is to continue using it and not pay attention to those things, or use a new address and encounter this again in the future.
I think it's not too big a problem during use, as long as the user is skilled enough to recognize those things as toxic.

[Blitzboy]

I understand how frustrating these unwanted coins are. Right? Your wallet, room. Your major concern seems to be getting rid of these tokens and preventing this from happening again.

Since blockchains are permissionless, you can't normally prohibit tokens from reaching your wallet. No need to keep them; having them in your wallet won't hurt.

If it bothers you, contact the wallet provider or exchange to hide or remove these tokens. Ignoring such phony tokens is better. Avoid selling or talking to them. These codes may put you at risk.

[beerlover]

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.

This should be everyone's approach. These things are filled with hacks and if you try to cash them out, you are going to end up with a problem. There are so many dust tokens and fake airdrops, the idea is twofold, either they are trying to make their "holders" number bigger by sending it to random addresses, which would have worked at the time before we knew this method but not so much nowadays, there are still some people who knows it eventually.

The second possibility is to make sure that you are going to be safe because they might be aiming to get into your wallet, they would have a fake token and a fake defi, you would see token valued a lot, and want to exchange it for money, go to that defi, and give it rights, and then they will empty your wallet.

[dunfida]

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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Just ignore it and dont tend to make actions in regard because if you do tend to sell those coins then you would be basically be wasting up
some money on using up those fees. Usually you would really be seeing huge amount or $$$ with those free token on which it would really be boggling you that there might be someone
who do mistakenly sent out their coins which we know that it cant really be that possible. 

Are you aware of dusting attack? If not, then this would really be a good read up in regarding to it.

https://cointelegraph.com/explained/what-is-a-crypto-dusting-attack-and-how-do-you-avoid-it
https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/crypto-dusting-attack-bitcoin

If you dont like to experience up such problems then it would really be just that wise that you should really be not minding
or trying to touch up those coins.

[Psynthax]

I understand how frustrating these unwanted coins are. Right? Your wallet, room. Your major concern seems to be getting rid of these tokens and preventing this from happening again.

Since blockchains are permissionless, you can't normally prohibit tokens from reaching your wallet. No need to keep them; having them in your wallet won't hurt.

If it bothers you, contact the wallet provider or exchange to hide or remove these tokens. Ignoring such phony tokens is better. Avoid selling or talking to them. These codes may put you at risk.

I don't think it gonna be a problem if its a wallet owned by exchange, also how can someone contact wallet provider to just remove the shitcoin?
doesn't that mean the wallet provider have access to your money which imply that there's bigger problem here?

[goaldigger]

There are a few mentions that I found very helpful for those new to this, perhaps more people need to get used to the fact that everything that comes up in this space works for good. The only choice is to continue using it and not pay attention to those things, or use a new address and encounter this again in the future.
I think it's not too big a problem during use, as long as the user is skilled enough to recognize those things as toxic.

You can just ignore it because the moment you try to move it, I’m sure hacker are just waiting for that moment so better to avoid it. Spam and scam token are there for a purpose and if you have it on your wallet then for sure you are exposed already. Using another address might be ideal, but you can still have it especially if you are into bounty hunting and the airdrop. You can just have your one main wallet for holding your good coins and if its for bounty only, just ignore those tokens.

[ndutndut]

The more activity there is on an address, the greater its potential for receiving spam tokens. That's what I also experienced at the same address, even though I never shared it with anyone or shared it on the forum. quite a lot of scam tokens are starting to come. Moreover, if whales' addresses continue to be active, then they will also be targeted. always hide incoming spam tokens and don't try to sell them, it's just a trap for dusting.

This is what I have experienced since playing airdrop and GA, the more we share wallet addresses, the more spam tokens we receive, and what makes me tempted is because the estimated price in the wallet is very large. Not a few have fallen into Batman's trap from this fraudster. So now even though I participate in the airdrop, I separate my main wallet from the wallet used for the airdrop, and the assets I store in the airdrop address are not much, just enough for gas costs, the rest I keep in the main wallet. Because I saw quite a lot of other friends who were victims of token spam, once hit, our assets were all drained without anything left. The wisest advice is true, as you said, never want to sell, it's better to just ignore it.