Trust Wallet includes a Security Scanner that checks destination addresses and dApps and shows low, medium or high risk warnings from its security partners, leaving the decision with you. That scanner answers "is this address or contract trying to rob me". An AML check answers a different question — what the counterparty address is tied to, and whether accepting funds from it will cost you an exchange account. Free in the Telegram bot, three checks a day.
Open @sanctuaryapp_bot, paste the address, get the verdict in seconds. Three checks a day, free, no signup.
Trust Wallet publishes how its Security Scanner works, in the announcement listed in the sources for this page: it scans destination addresses and dApps, shows warnings at low, medium or high risk levels using risk data from security partners, and leaves the final decision to the user.
That is a phishing and malicious-contract scanner, and it is a good one to have on. It is aimed at the threat where the address or the contract in front of you is the attacker: a fake token approval, a drainer site, a spoofed address.
Trust Wallet is also self-custodial. It does not hold your funds, cannot freeze them and does not run deposit reviews. There is no Trust Wallet compliance department to appeal to, which is precisely why the second question matters.
A wallet scanner asks whether the thing you are about to interact with is malicious right now. An AML check asks where the money has been and what that will mean at the next regulated venue you touch.
| Question | Trust Wallet Security Scanner | AML check |
|---|---|---|
| Is this dApp or contract trying to drain me? | yes, that is what it is for | not its purpose |
| Has this address dealt with a sanctioned entity? | not stated | yes, named in the result |
| Is it tied to a darknet market, ransomware or a scam cluster? | not stated | yes, with the category named |
| Is it on a stablecoin issuer freeze list? | not stated | yes |
| Will an exchange question these funds when I deposit them? | not its purpose | that is the question it answers |
Both are worth running, and they do not overlap. Keep the scanner on; check the counterparty address separately before you accept a payment or send one. The result is a verdict — CLEAN, LOW, MEDIUM, HIGH, CRITICAL — a recommendation of Proceed, Caution, Review or Reject, and the decision drivers named. Screen on the network the transfer uses: TRON, BNB Smart Chain or another chain page.
Self-custody means nobody froze your wallet — the hold is at the venue you sent to, and that is where it gets resolved.
| What you get | Free check in the Telegram bot | Workspace and API |
|---|---|---|
| Counterparty history | verdict with the reason named | the same, plus the counterparty breakdown |
| Coverage | 10 chains at full AML depth, 35+ networks screened | the same, in bulk and on a schedule |
| Volume | three checks a day | bulk lists, watchlists, continuous monitoring |
| Evidence | the result in the chat | a signed report you can forward |
| Cost | free, no signup | from $199/mo — see pricing |
Self-custody users check counterparties in the Telegram bot — three free a day, verdict in seconds. Businesses paying out to self-custodial wallets screen every destination with the API.
No. Trust Wallet's Security Scanner checks destination addresses and dApps for malicious behaviour and shows low, medium or high risk warnings from security partners, with the decision left to you. That is phishing and malicious-contract protection, not an AML screening of a counterparty's history.
No. Trust Wallet is self-custodial: it does not hold your assets and has no ability to freeze them. What can be frozen is a stablecoin at the issuer level, and what can be held is a deposit at an exchange you send to.
Copy the address and send it to the Telegram bot — three free checks a day, no signup. The verdict returns in seconds with the reason named. The lookup is read-only and does not touch the wallet.
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Because the two look at different things. The scanner asks whether the address or contract is malicious right now; the exchange asks where the funds have been. An address can be entirely safe to interact with and still carry a history that a venue questions.
Stop using that wallet — the key or an approval is compromised. Create a new one on a clean device, move any remaining assets to it, and check the destination address first. Record the transaction hashes and the drainer address; that record is what a venue or the police work from.
Send any wallet to the Telegram bot and get a verdict in seconds. Three checks a day, free, no signup. Desks that screen every deposit run it on plans from $199/mo.