Binance Recovers $344K From Scam DeFi Project That Launched on Its Platform
Having raised the funds at launch on Binance Smart Chain in October, the operator fled with users' cryptocurrency "within an hour," Binance said.
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Several crypto firms, including Binance and Circle, have launched a new crypto scam reporting platform. The tool “empowers anyone in the crypto economy to warn others about scams, hacks or other fraudulent activity as they encounter it.”
New Crypto Scam Reporting Platform Launched
A number of crypto firms have joined forces and launched a new, multi-chain scam reporting platform. TRM Labs, Circle, Solana Foundation, the Aave Companies, Hedera, Binance.us, and Civic announced last week “the launch of a new community-powered scam reporting platform,....
The centralized part of “CeDeFi” did not seem to help, though. Binance announced Wednesday the successful recovery of $344,000 in funds from the attempted exit scam of Wine Swap, a project on the Binance Smart Chain (BNB).Wine Swap was an automated market maker platform similar to Uniswap that launched on Oct. 13. Within an hour of the launch, it had amassed $345,000 in funds, which were promptly pulled from the platform by the creators of Wine Swap.The funds were then spread across several directions in a bid to get them out of Binance Smart Chain. The majority were swapped to the....
CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zao has alerted users about a massive SMS phishing scam that is targeted towards Binance users. The scam of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange platform is redirecting users to a malicious website to harvest credentials. Changpeng Zhao tweeted on Friday There is a massive Phishing scam via SMS with a link […]
Developers of the Sharktron defi project have exit scammed with reports suggesting that TRX tokens worth up to $10 million are missing. The Tron Foundation has confirmed the theft, but is quick to inform Sharktron token holders that a portion of the missing funds has been frozen. The exit scam comes a few weeks after the Sharktron devs issued a press release inviting investors to buy the token. Binance Freezes Part of Stolen Funds However, Justin Sun’s Tron Foundation, seemingly eager to get past this event, has issued a response on Twitter. The statement, which does not state the....
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