If you have a fear disorder, you may be more susceptible to the fear of the unknown. Those individuals include people with: Anxiety and fear disorders Not sure if something is malicious or not? Feel free to reach out to our customer support team if you have further questions.Although anyone can develop a fear of the unknown, behavioral scientists have found that some groups of people may be particularly vulnerable to this kind of anxiety. You can always unhide the NFT if you want to see it again, so hiding it only masks the NFTs from being viewed in Ledger Live. Please see the above steps to learn how to hide them. While some of these could be legitimate, there is a possibility they could be fraudulent. We really encourage you to research all NFTs that appear in Ledger Live. You just unhid the NFT and you can see it again in your account. In the dropdown, you will see all the hidden NFTs you have.That's it, you hid your NFT and you won't see it in your collection unless you unhide it. Confirm that you want to Hide NFT Collection when a pop-up message appears.Click on three dots on the right side of the NFT.Find in the list of NFTs one that you want to hide.Scroll down until you see the NFT Collections section.Go to the account that has the NFT you want to hide.Here's an example of what these NFTs look like in the explorer: They look like regular NFTs but in reality, all the NFTs shown here are either scams or malicious: This is how the scam NFTs appear in Ledger Live.

Fraudsters might have you follow a malicious link and encourage you to link your wallet addresses to receive a “prize.” Always remember, if something looks too good to be true, it usually is. Some of these NFTs have been “airdropped” to users.

No need to worry, as long as they are hidden and not interacted with, there is no way for them to affect your crypto or other digital assets.

Some have QR codes or other links: it is recommended to ignore them if you do deem them malicious.

Don’t interact with unknown NFTs until you’ve fully researched if it's well-intentioned.

Since there really isn’t a way to delete unwanted NFTs, we advise customers to consider the following: We encourage users to do research on NFTs received in Ledger Live. As the NFT market continues to expand, there is no way, unfortunately, to prevent this from happening due to the nature of public wallet addresses, and NFTs existing on the blockchain. If you notice a new NFT in Ledger Live that you don’t remember collecting, please don’t interact with it, as it could be malicious. Occasionally, you receive an unknown NFT in Ledger Live. What do you mean by a 'malicious or unknown NFT?'

Make sure to update Ledger Live to the latest version via this link.

This article provides information about handling unknown (or malicious) NFTs found in your Ledger Live accounts.

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