It's your best friend in crypto Alucard. Here to warn you noobs about how not to lose your newfound riches.
So you've done well in NFT flipping and moved up from a few ETH to owning some blue chips like Azuki or World of Women. When you view your wallet on Opensea, you start to get proud of yourself. You've traded well.
Suddenly, you see an NFT that you don't remember purchasing, but it looks really cool. It may even have a name you recognize, and possibly even a floor price that's worth something. Well, you didn't buy it. It must be an airdrop. Since you don't have any real connection to it, you decide to sell it.
Flash!
Not only do you not receive the ETH in your wallet for selling this airdropped NFT, but you now helplessly watch as the rest of your NFTs drain from your wallet. You're flabbergasted, red, hurt. How could this happen? Who would do this? All that hard work!
You've just been scammed, friend, and there's no way to get your shit back. No one to call. Not even the scammer. No regulation will fix this, by the way, so don't go running to the "authorities" just because you didn't read this article in time.
If free NFTs just start showing up in your wallet, that's a sign you need to split up the real NFTs in your wallet. You're being targeted by scammers because the value in your wallet has reached a certain value. The scammers have bots that automatically drop Trojan horse NFTs in your wallet. If you interact with them, you may end up approving a transaction on Metamask that allows the scammer to access your entire wallet. So don't move it, sell it, or visit any website it asks you to visit.
You can "hide" the scam NFTs. Click the three dots in the bottom left corner below the picture that says "more options." Click "hide." Then go to the bottom right of the whole screen and tuck that motherfucker away, never to be interacted with again.
Eventually, you'll get tired of doing this because the loser fucking scammers won't stop. These aren't humans; these are bots programmed by humans, and bots never get tired, take vacations, or move on to other marks out of frustration. It will just keep happening, and it only takes one moment of diverted attention to make a mistake even if you are fully informed. Your best protection is to split your valuable NFTs between wallets so no single wallet holds a lot of value. Then the losers will stop botting you.
You're welcome.
And goddamn these worthless piece of shit scammers' eternal souls to hell, because they have chosen to use their talents to take from the world instead of providing value to it. A conscious choice that deserves a conscious hell.
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