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Binance Issues a Crucial Scam Warning Involving All Users: Details
- Binance has issued a crucial scam warning to its users regarding impersonation attempts by scammers on social apps in order to access accounts and steal personal information.
- Scammers are pretending to be Binance support, requesting face videos to 'verify' accounts and sending QR codes through WhatsApp, Telegram, and Facebook, which when scanned, provide instant access to Binance accounts.
- Users on popular social media platforms are prime targets for these scams, especially in areas with high device theft rates.
- Binance has emphasized the importance of users trusting only official channels to avoid falling victim to scams, as criminals constantly target the exchange's large user base of over 275 million people.
- Recent threats to Binance users include SMS spoofing attacks, where users received messages instructing them to transfer funds to a dubious wallet after being falsely told that their accounts were accessed from North Korea.
- Binance's CEO has previously warned about phishing scams targeting the exchange's users and highlighted the importance of user vigilance as the primary defense against such threats.
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