So my questions:
Is there a known connection between receiving this "ContactMe (Risk)" token and being blacklisted by Tether?
Can a token like this be used as a signal or tag for blacklisting addresses by TRON or USDT smart contracts?
Can someone confirm if the address TMpz9XfT6T5viFpsVyNPnNisxChUK8qSn6 is actually on Tether’s blacklist, and how we can verify that through contract event logs or other tools?
If it is blacklisted, is there any real way to appeal/unfreeze funds, or is it game over?
I find it suspicious that the same pattern (token sent → wallet becomes frozen) appears across multiple unrelated wallets. If this is part of a new blacklist methodology, the community should probably know more about it.
Thanks in advance!
The ContactMe tokens are sent after an address has been blacklisted. I believe the sender is just monitoring the blockchain for blacklisted addresses and then trying to get the user's attention, probably to scam them.
There is an API that you can check if an address is blacklisted.
https://apilist.tronscanapi.com/api/stableCoin/blackList?blackAddress=TMpz9XfT6T5viFpsVyNPnNisxChUK8qSn6This will output the following information:
{"total":1,"data":[{"blackAddress":"TMpz9XfT6T5viFpsVyNPnNisxChUK8qSn6”,
"tokenName":"USDT”,
"num":"188686710923”,
"time":1751922861,
"transHash":"7bcffd2b3f9edaebcf411ff299e1b0d53e37165339e0bf9bd53512cb960946fc”,
"contractAddress":"TR7NHqjeKQxGTCi8q8ZY4pL8otSzgjLj6t"}]}
When you lookup the transaction hash given in the API response on a block explorer, you will see a smart contract trigger involving the multisig wallet used by Tether to issue new USDT. In this transaction, there is an event named “AddedBlackList” that references the address being blacklisted.
It is not game over once you are blacklisted. A few transactions made by the blacklister account are for removing addresses from the USDT blacklist, but I really have no idea what the process is for appeal and removal from the blacklist.