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Dusting Attack.

Tiny unsolicited transfers sent to wallets for tracking, spam or scam purposes.

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What does Dusting Attack mean?

A dusting attack sends very small amounts of tokens or coins to many addresses, sometimes to identify wallet relationships or lure users toward malicious assets and links.

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How people use it

Used around token launches, on-chain trading, wallet analysis and crypto social feeds.

EXAMPLE“That random token in the wallet is probably dust from a spam campaign.”
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