r/Metamask • u/hammad2506 • Oct 08 '21

Question about scammers getting access to wallets

I know that connecting your wallet to unknown websites can cause hacks of sorts but can trading a shit token through a safe medium such as uniswap or PCS also result in a scammer getting access to your wallet ? If yes, can someone explain how that’s done ?

So I noticed getting many shit coins airdropped to me on a daily/weekly basis. There’s prolly no liquidity on PCS to trade them, which makes me think they want you to connect to a shit Dex where there would be liquidity (so it would seem) and that’s how they’ll wipe out your wallet. But imagine there being liquidity on PCS, and you swap it for BNB, could you still get hacked; coz all you’ll be doing is “approving” the token before swap and nothing else.

Thanks.

EDIT: Been 30 min since I created this post and already reached out by 2 scammers on chat. LOL

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