Question: Very small Surprise Bitcoin Cash Transaction

@AntiSJWLeft 26 October 2020 more from that month

Question: Very small Surprise Bitcoin Cash Transaction So I just got a very small amount of BCH sent to my wallet on another site (less than one cent USD) that I was not expecting. What is up with this? Is there some kind of scam associated with this sort of transaction?

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@Telesfor 26 October 2020

I also sometimes get such transactions. They are mostly advertising transactions. If you look at the transaction in Block Explorer, you will see that an advertising text is sent with the transaction.
- @AntiSJWLeft 26 October 2020
  
  Interesting, I'll check that out, thanks! It came about 15 mins after a transaction I expected, so I suppose they might just send those advertising transactions to accounts they see getting transactions? That would be a clever way to know they are sending advertisements to active wallets...
  - @Telesfor 27 October 2020
    
    Or someone has sent you an SLP token. SLP tokens are also sent out as advertising. I also think that it is only sent to active wallets.
@The00Dustin 27 October 2020

Since you don't define "wallet," there is another possibility if you are using cashfusion (possibly enabled by default in Electron Cash?). Here is a relevant answer to someone else asking a similar question on reddit: https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/jifgbf/i_use_electron_cash_and_im_getting_500_sat_txs/ga95i0v/