Binance recent downtime gave some room to scammers impersonating Binance compensation department

in #binance7 years ago (edited)

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Binance exchange platform hasn't been active for several hours and this created some room for speculators and FUD(check out McAffee's tweet) to spread rumors about Binance being hacked.
Binance has been very active through their official twitter page and their CEO twitter account updating its follower about the maintenance progress.

It seems that with every Binance tweet update there have been several scam replies from twitter accounts which look similar to Binance(but not related with it), asking people to send a small amount of ETH to their ETH address and as in return they will compensate them for the downtime 1 ETH.

This is a tweet reply example of how these scammers work.

Below you can find the ETH account transactions of some of those scammers:
d1d919399c0a4a847a3ceae547ee2834c62dd247
34eeA3e741F9A3e77fB34E0793B1AF36EDC2b0AE
aA1f9B6d3dbF882f5AB1EA270BF7Ac51C4058E65
D253daFbe096Bcb2724Ed7d2C0D2855b00402810
84210e4CbF8F411f0a5Da270bE9966ddd7fF29a9

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cz_binance CZ tweeted @ 08 Feb 2018 - 17:29 UTC

Unfortunately, we will have to focus on restoring our system so that Mr. Mcafee can use our system to trade ASAP. S… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

bilnance__2017 binance tweeted @ 09 Feb 2018 - 00:49 UTC

@binance_2017 We would like to reward our followers for being patient. Send 0.2 ETH to the address below and we'll… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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