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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: What to do with spam and scam tokens on my wallet?
by
albon
on 26/09/2023, 19:36:42 UTC
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 slight chance that you will 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.