How to Check If a Token Is a Honeypot
Verify the contract address, simulate a sell with honeypot.is or GoPlus, read owner privileges such as blacklist and setTaxFee, check liquidity locks and holder concentration, then sell a minimum amount back before any real buy.
Why the ticker proves nothing
Token names are free text. A honeypot can call itself USDT, USDC or Tether and still be a contract deployed twenty minutes ago on a different chain. The contract address is the only identity that survives scrutiny, so compare it character by character against the issuer's official listing before anything else.
Simulation, privileges, liquidity, holders, test sell
honeypot.is, GoPlus Security and Token Sniffer simulate a buy and a sell against the live contract; a failing sell simulation is the definition of a honeypot. Then read the verified source for blacklist, setTaxFee, pause or mint, check whether liquidity is locked and for how long on DexScreener, look at whether two wallets hold most of the supply, and finally buy the minimum and immediately sell it back.
What to do when you are already inside one
Trapped funds are not stuck in a bug, they are under the control of whoever owns the contract, so recovery is close to impossible. Revoke the token approvals, move the remaining assets to a fresh wallet, never send extra BNB or ETH "for gas" to unlock a sell, and ignore any recovery service that contacts you afterwards, because that is the second scam of the same day.
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