One common blockchain scam looks like this: the scammer sends an unsolicited Token or NFT to your wallet. If you have been playing around with DeFi, interacting with new projects, or grabbing new tokens at DripDropz.io, you might have dozens of silly tokens in your wallet – a couple of extras COULD blend right in!

Making it even trickier, the scam tokens will usually mimic a legitimate brand. They usually have some enticing language like “Reward token” or “Bonus Air Drop!” Most notably, they will also have a website URL printed somewhere on the image of the token or in the metadata. The linked website will be a convincing doppelganger of the brand they are mimicking - same colors and some of the same content! However, if you do some looking, you will find they are always copycats. For example, a scam token might have “lidonation.io” listed as the website, instead of the correct website, lidonation.com.

The scam website will invite you to connect your wallet to receive a reward, or something similar.

> This, need I say it, is the point of danger. If you connect your wallet AND sign a transaction, you will inevitably be signing away the…