The fraudsters, who covet the investments of crypto money investors, have started to deceive people by using the name of ‘Binance’ this time with their newly derived methods. Some examples of fraud were painful.
Phone scams are scammed by dozens of people every day. financial losses While causing him to live, a sharing was made today that revealed the new tactic of the fraudsters. The sharing made by ‘Seymirel’ on Twitter showed that this time the phone scammers were targeting crypto money investors.
The user who shared the event of a friend, two days ago, the friend of the fraudsters. Under the name ‘Binance’ shared what he was looking for. Fraudsters wanted to gain access to the user’s account, asking the user for a verification code for this.
The scammers withdrew 25 thousand dollars from the user’s account:
While it is not known how the fraudsters obtained the login information of the person, the fraudsters using this information were logging into the account. As per Binance’s security measures two factor verification code In order to obtain this code, the user was contacted using an 850 number using the name ‘Binance’. Of course, these people did not have a relationship with Binance.
The person who delivered the two-factor verification code to the scammers soon saw that all the balance in his account was gone. User from account Ethereum worth $25,000 was withdrawn he noticed. While it was stated that the user applied to the police station after this, no new developments were shared about the process.
The scammers were calling the user again later:
This is not the only scam for crypto investors:
Recently, a user named ‘ElweThingol’ on Twitter shared the fraud event experienced by another person as follows:
There are also some complaints on Binance’s Complaints page about this fraud method, which has been shared on social media recently. The shares of users who have been exposed to similar fraud methods on Complaintvar are as follows:
Security of account information is not Binance, users’ responsibility:
Responding to various fraud reports on Complaintvar, Binance made the following statement:
“Your assets are safe on the Binance platform. #SAFU However, it is in the hands of the users to ensure the security of the devices and account information on which the Binance account is defined. When you look at the link address on the Malicious website / Cloned pages, fake addresses are displayed instead of Binance.com, and the data of the users are in the hands of malicious people at these addresses.
The first method to avoid these situations is to check the link address of the screen that comes up when you click. An e-mail alert is sent when shared user data is used by malicious people. It is not possible to make withdrawals to the new address 24 hours a day from the accounts of users who have “only secure withdrawal addresses defined” in their accounts.
If you are observing unexpected movements in your account, you should immediately contact live support and learn about security vulnerabilities in your device or e-mail account. If you are faced with a theft case, it is absolutely necessary to file a criminal complaint with the prosecutor’s office and investigate the situation. Making a criminal complaint is very important for bringing bad guys to justice!”