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I'm not sure if this should be here in the Beginners and help. But since more newbies are going here than the SA section, I'm posting it here. Otherwise, the mods are free to move it.

Be careful of fake Binance desktop app. Recently, I posted this thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5510180.0) on SA about fake passive income that appears on Youtube ads.
Now, I've come across this ad on a popular blue social media.

https://talkimg.com/images/2024/10/01/iQiBa.png

Advertised by a sketchy page named "Profit Pioneers" promising 0% commission/trading fees directing whoever is interested in it to click their link which will redirect to this link;


which is an obvious fake link.

https://talkimg.com/images/2024/10/01/iQg3N.png



Binance has a desktop app based on its official link: https://www.binance.com/en/download

Additional images:


Note: Always verify and check the official links and channels before downloading.

They just added the word “-desktop” to the original Binance URL, but if you don’t look closely, you could easily fall for the scam, especially when it’s promoted on social media or YouTube in a way that looks enticing. My suggestion is to always bookmark the official Binance website to avoid any confusion that could end up being costly.

Binance also released a warning about phishing websites like this, which you can check out below.

How to Identify URL Spoof Phishing (https://www.binance.com/en/support/faq/how-to-identify-url-spoof-phishing-360001556551)
 Examples of Phishing Sites (https://www.binance.com/en/support/faq/examples-of-phishing-sites-360020550592)

Beware of 99% of apps/websites being promoted on Facebook and other social media, as there's a very high chance of scams.

If a product enticed you through an ad, find the product manually through Google or social media search; don't click on the ad.

Binance does have a legitimate desktop app, although I’m not sure why anybody would use it instead of the website. They don’t provide a signature for their official desktop apps so people could end up in a situation where they do a google search for "Binance desktop app" and accidentally end up on a phishing site and won’t know they are installing malware until it is too late.

Man!! this site looks genuine. Anyone who isn't careful enough will surely fall for this kind of phishing sites. Because it's easy to post any links through social media, scammers are using it. Another thing I have noticed, whenever you google search any exchanges like Binance, Kucoin, or Bybit etc, the search result always shows sponsored site at first and then the original site, which I searched for. These so called sponsored sites aren't always the real ones. Better be careful...

Hey, where have you been?

I noticed you were off for a while. Glad to have you back.

The proliferation of these fake crypto desktop app in my estimation is due to the airdrops that have been on the rise. And Binance has been at the forefront of listing some of these tokens. Those who have participated in the tasks of these airdrops and are eager to get their rewards will definitely fall victims to fake app. tabas, I am sure that if you carry out more investigations, you will find out there other fake exchange desktop app because it cannot just Binance.

This looks like something that a newbie of me can never fall for, simply because it is too obvious, that link isn't Binance official link, even if a Binance desktop wallet exists that should be available on Binance website included with the mobile app too but newbies are main target for this because they are too stupid to realize the difference so I am not going to say that this warning isn't necessary.

Most of the losses happening this days are because of airdrops and crypto giveaways, people are looking for free ways to make money, especially the newbies, the majority of them come empty handed and airdrops like are the only options they have left, there is no way they won't become a victim.

This scheme doesn't end with Binance exchange only, other crypto apps and wallets are also a target, newbies only need to find the right apps through official links to stay  ahead of these scammers.

e.g using coinmarketcap

You can search and check with Google, Coinmarketcap, Coingecko, to have website link to Binance, and its application link too.

https://www.google.com/search?q=google+binance+exchange
https://coinmarketcap.com/rankings/exchanges/
https://www.coingecko.com/en/exchanges

On coinmarketcap.com and coingecko.com, you can choose Exchanges tab then Spot for Coinmarketcap.com or Exchangess tab then Crypto Exchanges for Coingecko.com, and you will see Binance there.

Or you can enter Binance to their search box and find Binance.

After finding and checking to confirm their exchange website link, get download link officially from their websites.

Some people will not listen. It is as simple as download the Binance app from the official website. All exchanges also works like that. If you access the exchanges on the web, you will see where you can download their apps when you are about to login. All these are easy to avoid but some people are just novice.

There have been fake Binance desktop applications appearing recently. They may look legitimate but are designed to steal personal information and funds. Always download the app only from the official Binance website and check the URLs. Protect your accounts by using two-factor authentication and avoid suspicious links. 

This applies not only to Binance but also to all other exchanges and wallets.

'Desktop App' yet the advertising image of the Scam shows very clearly a Google Chrome tab open with the Binance website on it and it is not even promoted by a fake Binance account.  It can not be more clear than this that it is a Scam.  This is the type of Scam only Newbies and non technical Computer users would fall for.  And these are the same people who likely believe that it must be real and legitimate since it is on the Internet..

Since Binance browser is banned in the Philippines surely it will help us too to identify fake binance desktop apps since we cant access this one.

Well cant help it as some people are hard headed guys. Using an official website always make us safe from potential scams. I wonder why they arent careful enough and still fall on this kind of scams.

I think you should be more careful with crypto ads and not click on any sub-link especially those that lead to downloading files, YouTube or Facebook do not have strict conditions and many of these ads are support for fraud.

I didn't know that Binance was banned in the Philippines, my thinking is if their website link is banned by your government, no way to access the exchange with mobile applications too. I am not sure it is possible to access Binance with VPN but don't have problems with Binance's Compliance team too.

It's better to be careful and prevention is better than cure.

If people are curious and would like to explore things, they have to do this with an empty advice, on which they don't log in any important accounts of banks, centralized exchanges, cryptocurrency wallets and emails for important things. Be careful and self-protect against fraud is important and we can not rely on community reports against fraud and scam.

Thanks for this, I have just scrolled on my facebook and I thought I could have seen this kind of ads? Not sure, but I have to go back and check, but what caught my attention is that it's very similar interface that is showing in my feed.

Yeah, I heard that Binance is ban from the Philippines but there are still Filipinos that I known of who are trying to access with VPN.

Anyhow, thanks for this warning and hopefully no one will fall for this trick.

Philippines just ban binance but they totally not implement a total ban for this exchange since their App still accessible and anyone could used it anytime they want.

Also its good that OP share this information since its really enticing especially for people looking for convenience and if to bad if they spot this fake binance app since there's really a huge chance that they would lose everything they have especially that those scammers don't have mercy and they would stole anything they can get from their victims.

Always important for people to check the url or to verify those apps they see, since phising attack exist and the creator of those apps is just doing a lot of ways just to spread out their creation and fool people to hack them.

Social media is the worst place to get or download anything related to cryptocurrency, there are so many scam ads on facebook, YouTube and the others. I wonder if the people who fall for these scams are new to crypto and they don't have any involvement prior to clicking such links, i say so because if you are in the crypto industry, you should know where to get legitimate information and also know where you should and should not download things from.

Everyone should remember that you can download such applications only from the official website. At the same time, you need to visit the exchange's website only from your bookmarks in the browser. You should take responsibility for your safety.

Yes it was ban few months back and any violators who still uses or caught promoting the use of Binance will be forced for a fine or criminal sanctions. Well the app still working since PH doesnt have a valid reason for its total abolishment on Playstore and Apple so it can still be access from the app. Only thr browser isnt working.

What may shock many of us is that fake app makers are successful in trapping victims even though their method may seem primitive and no one would believe it. Launching a fake app in parallel with an advertising campaign can achieve good results for hackers. Here we can address Binance’s responsibility to contribute to achieving a large part of the security of its users by being aware of these fake apps or malicious links to publish warnings about them on its channels and alerting users. This may seem pointless, but it certainly has a direct impact and can contribute to reducing the damage that these attempts may cause.

My problem is with these ADs and how the company behind these ads never vets what they are promoting. They accept anything and promote it without considering how some people, especially those new on the internet and very naive, can be affected.

Because there is already knowledge that ads are not always legit and that some ads can actually lead you to scam platforms, there should be caution on your side. You should not trust whatever pop-up ad you see. Download apps from official websites or the App Store.

Thanks for sharing this. I personally would never install any Exchange's desktop app for many reasons. Most of them do not even do a vulnerability test before launching the apps. Most of these apps of the exchanges are created using JavaScript which the codebase is used for Mobile, Tablet, Desktop and Web versions which make them very unsafe to use. You should always use the Mobile App or directly login using browser.

As we can see, scammers always weave their malicious game by placing tempting offers and eye-catching names for profit or linking to celebrities, which may push any beginner to try what they publish in the hope of recovering from trading fees and the like. It is worth noting that everyone has previously warned against these fraudulent ads containing malicious software and dangerous phishing links. They simply impersonate Binance's brand name/logo or any CEX and exploit it to promote their scams. Binance has previously warned about this matter through the following announcement: 'How to Protect Your Assets From Fake App Scams (https://www.binance.com/en/blog/security/how-to-protect-your-assets-from-fake-app-scams-8428496566631647285)'

It is worth noting that the phishing domain is inactive, and it seems to have been taken down. However, they may return with other domains, so it is advisable to install an ad blocker and the Detect Phishing Sites extension, in addition to being cautious about social media.

Right, they just added a desktop word on it and that's what scammers do. They use the origin word and make gullible people believe that they're the real one. I'll edit the OP and add those links.

Yup, thanks for that tip and welcome back.  ;)

Their users only have to visit their official website and that's it. But there's still a risk on this one when no one will notice that someone, a hacker would change the downloadable file into theirs, this has happened from other services that users even visited the official one and yet, the devs and admins didn't noticed it was replaced. Although for the likes of Binance, this is unlikely and little chance, it's still best to visit the official link.

Yeah, looks genuine and a newbie is likely to fall on it. Whoever sees that ad might believe that they're actually from Binance but with the name of the page, they seem slipped on that.

I agree that there will be more to it, actually I am just casually browsing and seen it on my feed and there's a lot more you're right because some ICO has also shown in my feed, I'll post that soon as well. And with the potential victims of it you're right with it too, they're the active ones that participates in the airdrops and those that don't have time to check if they're downloading a real one or not.

You're no longer a newbie because you've found the obvious. But sadly, even if we can avoid these fake websites and apps there goes the real newbies that are likely to fall for it. That's why if there's a way to educate them, even with your friends, please do.

Yes, verifying and checking the official link as always. The rest that has the same word of its service are copycats and fake.

Yeah, easy for us to avoid but we're not the target of this but the beginners. These scammers will come to them at any means because they know that some will still fall for this trap.

That's right, add always 2FA. Whether you use Binance or any exchange for trading always activate the 2FA and don't put all of that funds in there stock as if being used as a wallet.

It's pretty sad that even the name of the page is technically from an unknown source but they know that there will be newbies that will likely fall for it. And when that page and post are reported, they'll make a new one. I hope that these social media will be strict on which pages they'll allow to advertise but then, it's all about the money as long as they pay they will approve these ads.

While there are some newbies that would still like to access them, bypassing through VPNs if they are persistent as the promised "0% fee" looks interesting to them.

Exactly, they don't filter them out on who's using them to advertise. And thanks for the reminder, I'd be more careful next time.

You're welcome, the technique of these cons is they're quickly changing the page asap if someone reports it and that's why you are not seeing this kind of ad. And if you try so, you're likely to get into the algorithm of these ads and soon likely ads will be visible to you.

It's a mix type of people, newbies and some quite old in the industry that have loosened their guards being too comfortable. The same goes for messaging apps like Telegram which it is also rampant.

That's another tip, bookmark the websites that we always use. We should do it as an etiquette to avoid being at risk.

It's all about the money. They wouldn't mind filtering it for the cause of those potential victims. All they are is for the profit and if they want to, these slipped ads can be monitored and removed asap. They're good with those violations about copyright infringers but with consumers protection from these scammers, they are so slacked of.

You're welcome. I agree, if the exchange is accessible through their website. I'd do that favor for myself and being more careful, it's best to avoid installing any app from them. Coming from wallets, to these desktop apps and other resources that could be a gateway for the hackers.

I think most exchanges are giving warnings for attacks like this. But even if they have given that reminder for so many times, still, there will be those few who fall for it. You're right, very likely once reported and taken down, they'll come out again with a newer domain and name.

In 2020, I wrote Officially visit websites & download apps, not fake ones. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5259689.0) Thank you for reminding about this scam type again because it exists with time, there are newbies who will be vulnerable to this scam and can become new victims.

More tutorials from many forum members on Security and Privacy.
Security and Privacy Encylopedia. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5239098.0)

I was quite amazed, they dared to spend money to display ads. So this scammer dared to lose first for his actions. Maybe to those who are new, it looks genuine but there is a big difference. So you really have to be careful with every letter and punctuation.  From the local board, I learned that Binance should have a verification link to check whether the link has been officially verified by Binance or not.


Source: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5090319.msg64591482#msg64591482

It is a great addition and may help few, but not many.  If somebody falls for the Scam OP shows, I really doubt they would know how to use this verification webpage let alone know it even exists.

Binance has had many alerts and messages for Newbies to read, even about Scams.  This kind of Scam still working only shows that people never actually read.  It would be this easy.  Read and prevent.

You are right to warn us. Fake websites are getting harder to spot and social media makes it easy for scammers to share harmful links. To stay safe make sure you are on real website especially when looking for financial sites like Binance or Kucoin or Bybit. Here is what we can do. skip ads at  top of search results and find official site. Check website address carefully for small changes that might mean it is fake. Also turn on extra security checks and keep virus protection updated. By being careful and telling like this help others avoid losing money.

Thank you for sharing this. It is very alarming that they could advertise on behalf of a reputable business that doesn’t know they are being used in front of laypeople through ads. It should be verified when accepting ads like this. I believe that the platform, in whatever social media, should be thoroughly investigated and not just accepted because they are willing to pay.

It looks like it was Facebook that OP found this Advertisement on.

Sure, I agree, all these platforms should take this kind of Scam Advertisements seriously.  But they do not, because they do not care.  I am pretty sure there are at the very least some bots that quickly verify Ads before publishing.  It is enough for a bot to see the word 'Binance' and then see the redirecting link is not the official webpage and the Ad would then either be immediately canceled or sent to a human to double check what is going on.

But this never happens.  They always slip through and there are always Cryptocurrency Scam Ads.  I understand when it is an ICO Scam, I mean what can you do.  It is the team behind an ICO publishing an Advertisement for their new 'Product'.  But impersonating Binance?  How can this slip through?

I don't think it's the novice but due to carelessness. Some people are not novice at all but they are just lazy to make due verification before interacting with links. Several times, it has been posted here before not to download any exchange app from random link but only from their official website. This forum has been on the fore front guiding people on the potential scam format and how to avoid it. Sadly, some people are not here to benefit from this vital information. Being security conscious is what you need to succeed in this space, it has no regards to you being novice or professional.

For sure majority of them is really a novice, but also we cannot erase those lazy people who usually don't read up the site or app linked below since what come up with them is their greed to earn some bonus by clicking the link provided by such post. To bad for people to fall in such obvious scheme since people might not show sympathy with them especially if they know that they have experience dealing with crypto but they are lazy to read that's why they experience those unfortunate hacking incident.

Being security cautious is really needed since we are not playing around. Our money is always involve on each action we do so we really need to look carefully if the site we are accessing is not going to compromise us. Also if we are doubting we can always ask people to know some info's that we want to know.

But the chances for a experience trader to fall for this trick might be small. As he or she could have known that this is trick already. I'm also from the Philippines and we all know that Binance is no longer accessible to us as the government ban it completely although there are news that they want to make a comeback.

So a newbie or novice will likely fall for this because of their carelessness and not verifying any. And as we have said here, don't trust but verify and this could be very well aptly in this kind of situation. Of course, we should not trust anyone and do not click any link and practice safety everytime.

People should know that platforms like Binance and other exchanges won't promote such additional things on social media from a random page. Usually, when platforms release their apps or some additional updates, they put the update on their main website homepage and send notifications to their customers. They sometimes send emails, but I would suggest not relying on emails because it is easy to spoof email these days. So, everyone should check the main website before they trust anything. Now, if someone says to download the latest Electrum wallet and provide me a link, should I download that? Nope. I should go to their website and download it from their official website.

If people will just aware on schemes used by these scammers for sure they will never fall on those cheap promotions those jerks did. But some people deprive theirselves to learn and want to shortcut everything that's why they forget to learn about other thing which is helpful then usually they fall as the victim of this schemes. If everyone just know how to verify for sure that they will never get scam by this fake websites. Also they would know on where to go if they want to ask some verification on what information they see online.

Binance has post many warnings regarding on this schemes https://www.binance.com/blog/security/know-your-scam-protect-yourself-from-binance-imposter-scams-8186206274508844717 and also here https://www.binance.com/en/square/hashtag/phishing

Research is important and they should not think about reading is just a waste of time for them.

These days its easy to run an advertisement into different social media platform just you have a budget for a specific number of days, and to those haven't aware about the binance desktop and newbie who would like to join in crypto and for sure some of them recommend the use of the binance and once they see this advertisement possible fall on it, personally if I saw a platform which is have a tag sponsored I doubt on it already.  Binance and PH already have a recent issue with the license operation so most of the people here didn't use binance platform at all.

Facebook need to assess things more carefully with stricter regulation before approving these advertisements on their platform.

If they already allowed advertisements that are scam, community can report scam advertisement to Facebook and wait for their response that is expected to take down scam advertisements as soon as possible.

How to report an ad on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/business/help/162606073801742)

2 words for these scammers. TRY AGAIN.
I wonder when will these scammers lure me. I mean I want myself to get scammed, but looking at how these scammers are doing it, it's way cheap, very cheap than what I expect. Why? ;)

Thanks OP. I believe these kinds of threads that are spreading awareness to newbies will help at least 1, 2 or even more. There might be some Binance users out there that saw this already but saw this awareness thread as well. Always, always be knowledgeable if you want to survive in this harsh world of cryptocurrencies. If you don't want to get scammed, always research first before investing, and downloading anything. Scammers are evolving (but I can't feel it because they can't scam me), so the best thing that we can do as an investor is to evolve as well and equip yourself with knowledge. :)

Unfortunately, Facebook might be doing their best to pin down these scam attempts, but it isn't enough to prevent it. At the end of the day, most of the social media platforms have the same problem, and it's up to us investors already if we will fall to them or not. Expect more of these in the future. :)

OP absolutely did justice here for putting up this thread. I could imagine the number of newbies that have already fallen victim of this fake exchange. Scammers could go to any extent to see how they could scam people of their resources and if one is not very careful and attentive, one could easily fall for this scam.

I think OP should be able to make this known beyond this platform, on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, Reddit etc. so that newbies there can as well see it and have knowledge about the fake binance exchange so they do not fall prey of this scam exchange.

Actually new people getting introduced to the crypto everyday and they are unaware of these scams. This is the reason those new peoples fall for the scams. It takes years to learn how crypto works and how these scammers operate their business. People have to learn the difference between real and fake things. Yet, most people believe the AI generated contents and they don't even understand that it's fake content.

Everyone should stay away of clicking any links they find on social media. Not only those advertisement, but the links they received from known friends. Because I have seen my known friends send me links to login on some phishings so they can access my account.

These fake app makers usually buy a scam/phishing template from someone and then deploy it for themselves. They are not really app makers but they just re-distribute other people's malware. Particularly the kind that lets you steal other people's coins and send it to a server that another person controls, before sending it back out to you with a small comission attached.

And just like I said, I have seen this kind of ads in my Facebook and here is it,

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2024/10/03/iERpG.png

So most likely the same groups are behind all of this. And when you thought that Meta says that they don't allow scam sites on their platform, this is one example that they are not doing their jobs.

Yeah, I think that's what they did. It's simple if they use a template and edit themselves using the Binacne official color and logo from the internet. So, people could go deeper into having a false site when they are aware that many people know about the main site. Everything they do is more focused on the blackened. Perhaps they have an admin panel that controls how hey receive and distribute the assets to theirindivdual selves.

Phishing links like this will always get away, especially if he pays to advertise on Meta.
Somehow, Meta did a filter so that such a malicious link could get through.

I found a lot of similar links that will automatically download .APK extension apps and for unauthorized desktops.
Ordinary people will be trapped with trap links like this and of course need to do a report to flag that the paid sponsor is a scammer.

Not only on FB or Meta, but in some video providers that are quite crowded with users such as TikTok or YouTube broadcast ads managed by scammers, and it gets away quite easily.

Phishing sites that create domain names that are similar to the original site are common. For example, Electrum has also been targeted in the past.

The community's role is to alert each other to the dangers of phishing links like this. Even if media like Meta still display phishing ads, they can be reported or flagged to prevent other users, especially newbies, from falling for them.

Regarding https://binance-desktop.com/en/downloads, it clearly has nothing to do with the real Binance.


https://www.binance.com/en/official-verification (https://www.binance.com/en/official-verification)

Damn, I see this ads on Facebook again and I did try to report that this is fake and that they shouldn't allow this to be in their platform.

So just like what @ NotATether, the template is very similar so it could have come from one sources and then deploy by different cyber criminals to trap people.

Again, it might be very similar to Binance app as far as UI goes, but obviously, it is fake and a scam trick. And thanks to this community, we really have a lot of members that are giving us this clear warnings.

It seems a lot of people already seeing this ad. Probably the same ad is running from multiple facebook accounts. I am not sure if all the URLs are the same. If all of those URLs and the ads are the same, it is the same group who have been spreading this in social media. I am afraid to think how many people have already fallen for this trap. People who are in crypto but not experts are going to be victims of this trap.

There are several blackhat forums where some blackhat developers sell those scripts online just for a few hundred dollars. Don't ask me for the sources because I guess it's well-known already and I don't want to spread them further.

This is why I only saved those legit exchange that I am using for future purposes so I will never be a victim of those fake apps .
thanks for sharing this here OP the community needs this kind of help because we knew how hard to find help from outside the forum .

and also  i have seen this ads somewhere in social media not sure if Facebook or Instagram but like what I said ,I have saved the sites I am regularly using so I am safe from this victimizing .

Thanks for your more useful information because I found this promotion on my Facebook social account, although I am not interested with Binance desktop feature because my usually access to Binance account trough website or Playstore application but your information helped many people keep aware from fake or cheater website.
Right now the scammer have been smart and upgrade their trick how to scam many people, usually they are using free promotion site to make many people got scam but today based on OP information have used sponsored or paid advertising on social media platform exactly with Facebook.
BE aware for all user if see this kinds on paid promotion not download link and always use Binance website as reference for downloading Binance with desktop version or using application version.

It is hoped that the public should indeed be concerned about some traps like this, but some people sometimes do not know,
and they only follow the instructions given by the advertisement because there is a big bonus offered.

There are more victims of phishing link scams through Facebook, or they send directly to private messages.

Unfortunately, it is allowed freely because they pay. There should be a filter from Facebook before the ad goes live,
if Facebook alone can't filter it will just be the perfect trap for beginners.

Scammers can go to any length just to scam you of your money, they are trying to use anything that is available and unnoticed to try their luck, and such scams is mostly happening to newbies and some careless users who are so lazy to go to the official website of any wallet or exchanges they are downloading.

Newbies need to be very careful because such clone links looks similar to the original link, they just change somethings, and they copy same design as the original website so as not to look suspicious. I know it's hard to detect all but try as much as you can to always pay attention especially if it pertains money and wallets because it is very important because once they are able to get your details, all your money will be stolen.

So this is fake desktop app, really hacker's and scammers have gone far to this extent is quite amazing, because from the look of this and the app domain name, nothing change at all from the original binance name and this can become a big challenge for the cryptocurrency exchange anytime they may want to lunch their desktop app in the future.

Unless if their act to bring this fake desktop version down before launching the original, any ways thank you for bringing this here.

Binance founder Changpeng 'CZ' warns against AI deepfakes promoting unknown coins on social media.
Ripple CEO faces similar AI scams; Ripple issues alerts to protect users.
Binance's CZ to speak at Blockchain Week after U.S. legal battle.

https://coingape.com/binance-founder-changpeng-cz-zhao-issues-major-ai-warning-to-community/

I think AI deepfakes are quite different from fake apps. You should probably post it on another thread, or make a new one if one hasn't existed yet. I'm pretty sure people posted about deepfake scams multiple times already considering how common it is nowadays. You can scroll YouTube and find one channel livestreaming Musk promoting some random meme tokens for example. It's an old tactic that unfortunately still works. CMIIW.

Some people aren't well versed with technology, some even don't understand differences between domain which usually used by scammer to trick people.
so it's understandable that some people might fall victim.
I personally think using mobile app that we can get from play store or app store to be more assuring, as there's extensive review toward the app available in that market.
even nowadays I don't really trust any ads or clicking any ads available in site like google, I've seen some scam site advertising and trying to impersonate as a legitimate website.

I think for newbie, always be sure to recheck the domain, using adblocker and protection from antivirus software (the reliable ones) might help since sometime they also offer protection to filter scam site.

Yes that is right many people have trouble understanding technology making it easy for scammers to trick them. To be safe we should use apps from trusted places like Play Store or App Store. They check apps carefully. And we should be careful with online ads even on Google as scammers can pretend to be real websites. If anyone new to internet so he/she should check website addresses carefully and use ad blockers and also install good antivirus software. Staying alert and informed helps keep them safe online.

To many ads in most of this social media apps and also games the moment you are connected to the internet you start seen ads for you to actually download apps which they know that many of this apps are actually not correct and they are scams I don't know the reason why does ads are accepted when they can not even distinguish between wether they can be trusted or not, they try to make everyone believe that those apps are legit and can be trusted which is a lie.

Is not that they are new some is just that they are ignorant if not you know exactly were to download the actual app why not just go their directly to download instead of trusting ads the only single thing have downloaded from those ads is not more than a game and I know it was the actual thing but when it comes to anything crypto I go directly to were I will download.

It is even very risky to be clicking every single link you see so that you don't get hacked because a lot of stories have been heard thay people are hacked because of the link they clicked caution needs to be taken serious with both ads and links.

They've been doing it for quite a while and don't just focus that it's from Binance because they could copy other exchanges and wallets too for their own benefit. So, always make sure to download from verified sources for every app that you'd download whether they're from crypto, financial app or those apps that contains vital information and data of ours.

Thanks for bringing this up, I think that there was one already made for this topic. So, scammers are everywhere, and with the emergence of AI, they're going that far from making videos with the face of the known ones like CZ and other influencers in the community. Like they can make videos of CZ endorsing this fake app or anyone that has a wide reach of audiences could fool people with these deepfake videos promoting fake apps too.

That's the laziness of ads staffs on any social media platform they only take action if someone reported it, even google ads and other ads providers. Most of these abusers and scammer can still able to manipulate ads to make it look legit.
So I hope that people should be smarter than the scammer before they trust a business or a site they should always check it first to see if that is the right website or not and ask more people if s/he is accessing the right site before giving sensitive information or deposit on that platform.

Scammers won't stop their scam attempts because it's their only or main job so majority of scammers will continue doing their scam jobs.

Scammers set up their scam traps as honeypots that come along with some kind of attractive profit, bonuses, opportunities to get rich. Fortunately, people can avoid most of honeypot scam traps by being careful practically and avoid things that easily to realize as "too good to be true".

If they always remember a famous saying "There is no free lunch" and combine it with "avoid things are too good to be true", they will self-defend against like 90% of 99% of honeypot scam traps.

People will always fall victim of such scam and craft all because of ignorance and mindset of getting rich fast. Especially people that are new in the cryptocurrency world and forex trading. The scammers have learnt the way of the new ones and know they would love to have a trading app that has zero percent transactions and trading fee.

Airdrops, giveaways and not knowing the basics will make one a victim. Most times the platform in which the ads are displayed makes it look so real.

One need to follow the right source and URL before downloading such and asking questions from one higher than you or a mentor.

Sadly, that is true. The scammers are capitalizing on the greed of their victims but this isn't the case for this one. They're targeting specific victims who are into Binance and think that they're able to get some freebies through zero fees by downloading the fake desktop app. They thought that they're able to save such fees by reading that 0% but no, they've just been attracted and fell for the scam.

That's right, simply by following the official links or websites of the exchanges like this one for Binance as an example is the best thing to do. And always verify to avoid being a victim of such schemes.

That's why they usually go on social medias then advertise their schemes since they know that they could able to attract lots of new people especially for the offers they try to put on their advertisement. To bad for people fall from this since their innocence has been exploited by those people who want to gain from illegal things.

Although we cannot stop this since for sure  those scammers would continue this schemes, so what at least we can do with this is to make our relatives and friends aware about those fake apps especially when they are dealing crypto or any financial deals online. I expect to see more of this attempt since right now bitcoin current pump would provably catch interest to a lot of people and again those scammers would take advantage on that situation.

We see this type of ensnarement at its peak during bull seasons. As people gear up to increase their invested profits, so also do scammers increase their illicit tactics.

This is the major reason everyone who's genuinely in this crypto industry has to have patience and scrutiny as their best guide. Without those two, one will constantly fall victim to scammers. Be patient and don't hurry up on anything while dealing with anyone, even when they attempt to make you think they're in a hurry. Don't rush. That way one can see through their game plan. I, for one, don't like clicking on random links. I take my time to source links or information from official sites of projects I'm interested in. That way, one is sure of what one is dealing with. From coin sites, I'm sure one would get the genuine Binance link and not the phisher we've there.

I believe newbies are taking note of this.

It's not necessarily greed, but ignorance. The advertisement looks quite legit, if you ignore the fact that's it's posted by a random account on Facebook and not Binance itself, and unfortunately looks quite well-done, except from the download and Windows icon. People aren't fueled by the greed of 0% fees, Binance already has low fees, they're aiming at people who have limited knowledge and won't think too much about it. Social media are a paradise for scammers, from fake influencers and pyramid schemes, to full blown scams and phishing attempts.

Bumping and adding some recent images of another scam related to Binance/BNB and this scam tactic, so beware those that have relatives that are using Facebook or even folks and newbies that are also from the forum. The other image is about BNB scam, "deposit this xx amount, receive this xx amount" typical old format scam. Be careful everyone these fage pages with little followers are obvious to be scam pages but we'll never know how many gullible ones might fall for it.

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A lot is going on in the cryptocurrency space and scam is still going on at a very high rate and every internet user opt to be very careful and be watchful of every possible attempt as they come in different formats.
People should always cultivate the habit of verifying every of their informations on the official sites or better still search google and there is this AI tool on WhatsApp that also helps with searches as you can just make it your friend and ask it every question you wish to know.

Greed as nothing to do with fake it's more of lack of knowledge and it is actually ignorance just the way you have started it and there is more challenges when it comes to education in crypto currency because of the lack of information people are falling victim for this hoodlums and they keep discovering new way just to scam people and this issue of fake sites have been in existence now for a very long time, and the most used channel to scam is actually Facebook and twitter and worse of them all is telegram and that is why we have to be very mindful of what we see on channels and we then click on them, and the issue of zero fees is what is attracting people and even if they want zero fee why not make proper confirmation first before agreeing to make use of it amd the more we watch out for this things the more we save our selfs from more problems, and binance have been doing zero fee for bep20 for some time now and there fee is actually fair enough, and social media is one thing that we have to be very mindful of in what ever we are doing.

Don't rely too much on AI tools, while they can help in busting scams or giving you some information if the website or platform that seems to be looking like binance is real or not. But knowing the actual thing, the platform itself and the features that it has to offer will make you flee from all of these potential scams. While you can't eradicate the scams, you will be able to avoid them and save yourself from being the victim of these thieves.

Exactly, scammers are everywhere trying to use any means to scam innocent newbies and some people that don’t know about all these phishing attempts and these attempts have ruin so many people because these people used the opportunity to scam them.

However, I don’t even use any of these exchanges app on my PC, instead I accessed them using the website QR code whenever I wants to use them, and once my county’s ban the use of most of these exchanges, I use VPN to access them through QR-Code logging.

Cryptocurrency at large is a den of scammers which is the reason everyone in the industry should be very smart and proactive. When you want to download any application or software either for phones or desktop only ensure that you download from the official website of the project owners. During the Christmas and the new year season, the scam in the industry is always high likewise in every other industry because of end year anticipated success.

It is so important that we all become smart and even smarter than the scammers because these scammers have various means they device in order to reap people of their hard earned money. Everyone should be smart this industry is all about precision and carefulness

One thing I’ve noticed I’ve the time in the I dusty is the fact that, most of the people that fall prey to scam are people who allow their greed overshadow them, because at the end of the day, everyone wants to make higher profits with minimal effort and that’s what most of these scam artist capitalize on and serious their victims have been seriously weaponized with the mindset that crypto offers free and easy money and when these scams present these opportunities of making easy money through crypto, they end up being scammed.

I think everyone should learn how to be contented with what they have and not to be greedy to want to accept abnormal profits regardless of the source.

They try to go on platforms on which possibly they can catch their potential victims that's why people need to be more careful dealing with something they don't know. If they see that a platform they know suddenly give big offers to people then maybe best for them to verify if this is true or not. For sure there are also lots of platform where they can ask the community if what they are reading is true and they are not going to be scammed.

Usual mistake made by newbie is they immediately ride on those offers what they read online that's why they are common catch by those scammers so to avoid this critical is always important for those people to have.

We as experienced users know about this scam and won't be scammed, but newbies are vulnerable and they even don't know about phishing sites. These advertisements on Facebook/ Meta recent weeks are very annoying, and potentially cause money losses of many cryptocurrency newbies.

It's surprising that in the last few days, I reported a lot of such advertisments, Meta keept silently with my reports. Only today I received 5 notifications from them, and you know, they simply announced as follows
It takes a long time for answers, that are bad than my expectation.

How much money Meta got from such advertisements?
They shown that they ignored safety of the community and their users. Meta is going down!

Notes: I saw similar advertisements with Bybit, Remitano, Tradingview and all are phishing sites with desktop app in their links.

This issue of fake apps have been existing now for a very long time most of this exchanges have an official website of even contact them on twitter to get a better response on how to get the link to an exchange instead of trusting your source in time of security and people are deliberately lazy because from the name of the website you should to know the one that is good or not and the forum is a place to open your eye to knowledge and this is nothing difficult here to do.


And if you search google am very sure you will see exchanges the. Tia and people are looking for easy way if not there is a way you can just go to official website to save your self from falling into the hands of scammers because they are always very busy for new strategies.

Be careful of Twitter my friend because the moment you make such contacts, your inbox might be flooded with fake CS claiming to want to help you. Unless you have appetite for such spam, you night want to use the live support in the platform or write main to their customer service for guidance.

I have a policy of not downloading any app from a third party and this has saved me a lot of troubles. Many people I know have had their information and money stolen because they simply downloaded and installed a fake application that was packaged as the original. I don't want to experience that so I protect myself by using only official websites to download any application I want to use. I try to avoid Google play store but unfortunately, some applications can onnly be gotten from their and other of such places.

Yes, I think it a malware app. When I saw maybe it link use facebook ads to promoted right?

No matter how genuine the website looks, it can never get my attention because the red spot is clear to see, first don't trust any ads being promoted with high profits promises, secondly social media sponsored ads are mostly fake sites and hidden under the genuine real platform to fraud their victims so be careful with sponsored ads that put themselves in your face while surfing the Internet.

Nice one mate. more reason everyone should pay good attention to the URL of any site they are patronizing. Good thing is that no two sites would bear the same domain name which removes the issue of double domain name and leaves the hackers or scammers with no other option that to employ convincing prefixes or suffixes to the domain names. No one can ever go so wrong if they get less greedy with tempting offers and validate URLs before having any dealing with any sites, even familiar ones. This is the era of different scams in different forms, so extra caution needs to be put in place for personal online security and I believe URL awareness can save us a whole lot if we are really attentive to it

What is Binance itself doing about this? Isn’t this coming to there notice at the very least or having reports from victims or something. Of course it ain’t there site but, they could at least file a report to companies running these ads and YouTube to take it down.
This is some of the things ads blockers could save you from.
People can’t be all that careful you know and it’s a little clever way to put up there schemes, one that could sway users from having any suspicion.

I don't think that it's even needed to download any such applications even if they're 100% legit. I personally trade using my laptop and it has an external display connected and for me website based interface of all exchanges is more than enough and I can do trade on the website versions without any issues.

I believe the website versions are safe and are way better than the application versions. I know for smartphone users it's better to download an exchange's app as that's easier to use than the web version but for desktop and laptop users the applications aren't needed at all because trading can be done without such applications.