Fake DEX Screener 'vote rewards' site reward-dexscreener.com lures users into wallet-draining SOL giveaway
MalwareTips reports a DEX Screener vote rewards scam that promotes a copied website, reward-dexscreener.com, offering SOL in exchange for voting on tokens. MalwareTips describes the destination as a cryptocurrency-dra…
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Source: malwaretips.com · published
What happened
MalwareTips reports a DEX Screener vote rewards scam that promotes a copied website, reward-dexscreener.com, offering SOL in exchange for voting on tokens. MalwareTips describes the destination as a cryptocurrency-draining lure that uses the recognizable analytics brand to make the wallet interaction feel familiar, and advises not to connect or sign through the site. DEX Screener itself is a legitimate service being impersonated and is not accused. MalwareTips notes no functioning signing request or transfer was reproduced and a current capture attempt returned an error.
How the scam works
Wallet-drainer lures copy a familiar crypto brand and offer something free: a vote reward, an airdrop, an early-supporter allocation or a trading bonus. The visitor is directed to a 'Connect Wallet' button. Connecting alone usually only shares a public address, but the next prompts can ask for a signature, a token approval or a transfer, and these may be labelled as a claim or vote. An approval or signed permission can let the operator move tokens later without asking again, and blockchain transfers are rarely reversible.
MalwareTips says the right response depends on what was actually approved. Someone who only viewed the page has less to do than someone who signed a transaction or typed a recovery phrase. Check your wallet history or a blockchain explorer, revoke any token permissions you don't recognise, and if a recovery phrase was entered, move the remaining funds to a new wallet. Find claims and events only through a project's official website and verified accounts.
DEX Screener is a popular token-analytics site, so a 'vote and earn SOL' offer using its name can feel like a normal community feature. DEX Screener is impersonated and is not involved.
Source
MalwareTips, "DEX Screener Vote Rewards Scam" (published 25 October 2026).
Red flags
- A reward, airdrop or event page on reward-dexscreener.com rather than DEX Screener's official site.
- A 'Connect Wallet' button as the first step to claim.
- Signature or approval requests that don't clearly match a simple claim.
- Requests for a recovery phrase or private key.
- Urgency, countdowns or limited allocations.
If you were targeted
- 1Don't connect a wallet to reward-dexscreener.com or sign anything there.
- 2Never type a recovery (seed) phrase or private key into a website or give it to 'support'.
- 3Check announcements only through the project's official website or accounts that you open yourself.
- 4If you connected and approved something, revoke the token approval with your wallet's or the network's approval tool and move remaining assets to a new wallet if you're unsure what you signed.
- 5If you disclosed a recovery phrase, treat the wallet as compromised and move assets to a new wallet created with a new phrase.
- 6Report the site to your wallet provider and, in the U.S., to the FBI's IC3 at ic3.gov.