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Crypto scam checker — verify any wallet before you send
Paste any ETH, BTC, Solana, or TRON address. We check it against 12,000+ confirmed scam wallets, drainer-contract fingerprints, and live community reports. Read-only — no wallet connection, no signup.
High-risk wallet signals
- · Funded by a known drainer / mixer
- · Brand-new address, many small deposits
- · In the GACS or chain-analytics blacklist
- · Lookalike of a wallet you've sent to (poisoning)
- · Shares cluster with reported scam contracts
Lower-risk signals
- · Active > 12 months, two-way transactions
- · Verified exchange / institution label
- · No blacklist hits across major DBs
- · Not part of a known scam cluster
- · Consistent with previously-trusted sends
Frequently asked questions
How do I check if a crypto wallet is a scam?
Paste the wallet address into the box above. GACS checks it against 12,000+ confirmed scam entries, community reports from the last 24 hours, known drainer-contract patterns, mixer/peel-chain signatures, and chain-specific heuristics. You get a 0–100 risk score and the exact reasons in about 5 seconds.
Which crypto scams does the checker catch?
Pig-butchering deposit wallets, wallet-drainer contracts, fake exchange withdrawal addresses, 'tax clearance' and 'recovery service' scams, rug-pull token contracts, address-poisoning lookalike wallets, and SIM-swap drain destinations. It handles EVM (ETH, BSC, Polygon, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism), Bitcoin, Solana, and TRON.
Is the crypto scam checker really free? Does it touch my wallet?
Free, no account, no per-query limit. It never connects to your wallet — you paste a public address or contract, the checker is fully read-only and runs on public on-chain and community data.
What counts as a high-risk crypto wallet?
Common red flags: address appears on the community blacklist, has received funds from a known drainer/mixer in the last 30 days, is a brand-new address collecting many small deposits (pig-butchering pattern), shares a transaction cluster with already-reported scam contracts, or matches a poisoning pattern of a wallet you've sent to before.
I already sent crypto to a scam wallet. What now?
Time matters. (1) Revoke any open token approvals at /revoke-approvals so the attacker can't drain more. (2) Move remaining funds to a fresh hardware wallet. (3) Report the address at /report so the next victim sees a warning. (4) File with IC3 and your local police — full 15-minute checklist at /panic-guide. Do NOT pay any 'recovery service' that DMs you — those are second-stage scams.
How is this different from Etherscan, Solscan, or chain explorers?
Explorers show transactions; you still have to interpret them. The crypto scam checker tells you the verdict directly — pulling in the community blacklist, AI heuristics, drainer-pattern detection, and victim reports that a raw explorer doesn't surface.
Can I check a crypto exchange or trading site, not just a wallet?
Yes — for full domains use /check-if-website-is-a-scam. For token contracts (rug / honeypot risk) use /honeypot-checker. For a single wallet address, use the box on this page. All three share the same blacklist + report database.
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How to check if a crypto wallet is a scam
- Copy the wallet address
Copy the full public address the other party gave you (0x… for EVM, bc1…/1…/3… for Bitcoin, base58 for Solana, T… for TRON). Never share your own private key or seed phrase.
- Paste it into the checker
Drop the address into the box on this page and press Check wallet. The check is read-only — no wallet connection required.
- Read the risk score and reasons
Within ~5 seconds you get a 0–100 risk score, a verdict, and the exact signals: blacklist matches, drainer/mixer funding, poisoning patterns, and cluster ties to known scams.
- Act before you send
Score ≥70 or any blacklist hit → do not send. Revoke any open token approvals at /revoke-approvals, report the address at /report, and follow /panic-guide if you already sent funds.