USDT Payment from a Russian man

[amr1001]

Hello,

Some Russian man trying to buy a digital product from me, he is not able to do it via tranditional payment channels or Escrow services( maybe because of sanctions), so is it safe to accept direct usdt deposit from him to my binance wallet? or  it can cause my binance account to freez or something in case the source of his usdt is shady or someting?

Kindly advice and if there is any way to make sure the transaction will be safe.

whatever  I am selling is legal, it is just about the payment to make sure it  arrive safely.

Best Regards,
Amr

[OmegaStarScream]

USDT fees are not much, regardless of the chain you're using. I think it's wiser to first send the funds to your personal wallet (you usually deposit from) and then from there to Binance. In the case of them detecting that as suspicious activity, at least you could explain to them, that you're still using the same address as usual, and you just received the funds from someone else before that.

If the amount is large and you have reasons to believe that the money is not "clean". I personally wouldn't deposit to Binance directly, not without going first through some non KYC exchange or platform.

[asriloni]

Hello,

Some Russian man trying to buy a digital product from me, he is not able to do it via tranditional payment channels or Escrow services( maybe because of sanctions), so is it safe to accept direct usdt deposit from him to my binance wallet? or  it can cause my binance account to freez or something in case the source of his usdt is shady or someting?

Don't do that. Binance is complying with the international sanction given to the Rusia. If your account receive a deposit from russian. Your account is potentially getting restricted. You can try to avoid it by using a bridge. You can tell him to use bridge, then receive it in your personal wallet in the different blockchain.

I think it's much safer caused by your wallet won't be directly linked to that russian addy. As far as i know bridge let someone send others by putting receiver addy in the memo provided by the service. So i think it's much safer.

[JeromeTash]

Do not let him deposit the USDT directly into your account. Create a TRX address or whichever chain you are using and let him send the funds there. After that, screen the funds using any of the available AML scanning tools to check the risk score. After confirming that the risk score is low, then you can go ahead and send the funds to your Binance account.

[Kavelj22]

Hello,

Some Russian man trying to buy a digital product from me, he is not able to do it via tranditional payment channels or Escrow services( maybe because of sanctions), so is it safe to accept direct usdt deposit from him to my binance wallet? or  it can cause my binance account to freez or something in case the source of his usdt is shady or someting?

It depends on the sender's source of funds. If he uses a flagged source, you binance account is likely yo be frozen for investigation. Since you don't know from where he will send the USDT, it is safer to accept the funds into your personal address, use a trusted no kyc swap service to swap the funds to another blockchain, then deposit to your binance account. Keep in mind to split the fund into small transactions if it is a big amount.

Another trusted method for safe swap is to ask someone from the forum to buy the USDT in exchange for bitcoin or another cryptocurrency. Use the "currency exchange" board.