Binance démasque une escroquerie aux fausses victimes : conversations et relevés de transfert falsifiés

Binance vient de mettre à nu une nouvelle arnaque sophistiquée. Leur équipe de sécurité a identifié un schéma où des escrocs fabriquent de toutes pièces des preuves – conversations et historiques de transactions – pour se faire passer pour des victimes et réclamer des remboursements frauduleux.

Le Modus Operandi

Les malfaiteurs ne se contentent plus de simples mensonges. Ils produisent des faux convaincants : captures d'écran de chats modifiés et relevés de transfert trafiqués, le tout dans le but de tromper les processus de support client. Une tentative de détourner les systèmes conçus pour protéger les utilisateurs légitimes.

La réponse de la plateforme

L'échange a rapidement renforcé ses vérifications internes. Leur message est clair : toute réclamation sera passée au crible d'une analyse forensique poussée. Une victoire pour la sécurité, mais qui rappelle que dans la finance – qu'elle soit traditionnelle ou numérique – là où il y a de l'argent, il y aura toujours quelqu'un pour essayer de rédiger un faux chèque, même en pixels.

What is the new Binance scam about?

According to the Binance staff’s X post, “The incident started when customer service received a complaint from a user claiming they were scammed out of money by a supposed ‘Binance executive.’ The other party ‘promised’ to help resolve some issues, but once the money was transferred, they vanished without a trace.”

However, investigators uncovered multiple red flags that exposed the deception.

When the user was asked to provide real-time chat records, “he said the other party had enabled privacy mode, deleting all the chat history, and he could only provide a screenshot of an ‘after-the-fact confrontation.'”

The alleged executive asked only for a project name without conducting any verification. The transfer record started to raise eyebrows when blockchain analysis revealed the wallet address the user claimed belonged to the scammer actually initiated the transfer, suggesting it was the complainant’s own address.

Most telling was what they discovered during the investigation. According to Sisibinance, “The user first fabricated chat records and transfer records (the transfer record came from a certain escrow platform), then lied about the chat history being deleted. Next, he approached the real executive’s account for a confrontation, creating two sets of ‘executive’ screenshots.

Then, he took the conversation record from the real executive account to customer service, demanding an investigation in an attempt to bait a response from us, and threatening to apply pressure through social media if we didn’t help resolve it.”

Crypto industry continues to suffer losses

Exploit and fraud headlines have sort of become a feature of the cryptocurrency industry at this point. Phishing attacks alone ranked third after code vulnerability and wallet compromises, accounting for losses that exceeded $5.8 million in November 2025. Over $1 billion was lost across 296 incidents in 2024, according to blockchain security firm CertiK.

Address poisoning scams work by sending small cryptocurrency amounts to users’ wallets from addresses that closely resemble legitimate ones. Victims who copy addresses from their transaction history inadvertently send large sums to fraudulent wallets.

Cryptopolitan reported that a single trader lost around $50 million in an address poisoning attack.

Following the $50 million loss, Changpeng Zhao, Binance’s founder, popularly known as “CZ,” called for industry-wide action to crack down on poison scams on December 24.

CZ urged that wallets should automatically check if receiving addresses are associated with poisoning activity and block transactions, a mechanism that Binance already has. He also advocated for real-time security alliances maintaining shared blacklists of malicious addresses accessible across platforms.

Crypto scam attacks have been on the rise as the year’s curtain is being drawn, and many platforms have taken a proactive stance in informing their customers to avoid being victims of any of these schemes.

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