Honeypot tokens
You can buy but you can never sell. The contract blocks all sell transactions while letting buys through. One of the most common crypto scams.
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Instantly see a risk score, honeypot detection, dangerous functions, and all red flags found in the contract.
If risks are found, avoid the token. If it's clean, you can invest with more confidence.
Scammers use the same tricks. We know them all.
You can buy but you can never sell. The contract blocks all sell transactions while letting buys through. One of the most common crypto scams.
Developers drain the liquidity pool and disappear. We check if liquidity is locked and if the deployer wallet has withdrawal privileges.
Hidden functions that let the owner print unlimited new tokens, instantly diluting your holdings to near zero.
Owner can block specific wallets from selling. If your wallet gets blacklisted, your tokens are permanently trapped.
Contracts with extremely high buy/sell tax (50%+) that make it impossible to profit even if the price rises.
When the owner keeps control of the contract, they can change rules at any time — including fees, limits, and blacklists.
Scammers deploy across every blockchain. So do we.
With thousands of new crypto tokens launching every week across Ethereum, BNB Chain, Base, and other blockchains, scammers have more opportunity than ever to trap unsuspecting investors. Knowing how to check a crypto token before you buy is one of the most important skills any crypto investor can have.
CryptoScamsAlerts.com provides a free, instant smart contract scanner that checks any EVM token for common scam patterns. Here is what to look for when evaluating any new token.
Most crypto scam tokens share a set of common characteristics that can be detected by analysing the smart contract code. The most dangerous red flags include honeypot code that prevents selling, mint functions that allow the owner to create unlimited tokens, blacklist functions that can trap specific wallets, and unlocked liquidity that can be drained at any time.
These two terms are often confused but describe different scam mechanics. A honeypot is a technical trap built into the smart contract itself — the code physically prevents sell transactions from going through. A rug pull is an action taken by the developers: they remove liquidity from the trading pool, making the token unsellable at any real value. Both result in total loss of investment, but a honeypot is detectable before you buy by scanning the contract code.
While scanning a contract for red flags is a critical first step, it is not a complete due diligence process. Sophisticated scammers sometimes deploy contracts that initially appear clean but contain time-delayed traps or rely on off-chain coordination to execute the scam. Always combine contract scanning with research into the team, the social media activity, the liquidity lock duration, and the token holder distribution before investing.