They recover 5,000 dollars scammed in Binance in Guayana city, Bolívar state. Authorities alert to new similar events.
Authorities recover $5,000 from Binance P2P cryptocurrency scam. The CICPC in Ciudad Guayana, Bolívar state led the procedure.
In this case, Edgar Alexander Rodríguez Gil (18) was arrested and accused of carrying out fraudulent commercial operations with the stable coin tether (USDT) on the Binance exchange.
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The director of the CICPC, Commissioner Douglas Rico, reported that the detainee deceived his victims through the social network Facebook. The purpose was to exchange USDT on Binance for currencies in cash.
“After finalizing the negotiations and having the money, Edgar Rodríguez sent captures of fraudulent transfers, affecting the economic assets of his victims,” Rico said.
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Edgar Rodríguez was arrested in the El Caimito urbanization, Unare parish, Caroní municipality, Puerto Ordaz, Bolívar state.
The fraudster is already at the disposal of the 11th Prosecutor’s Office of the Public Ministry of Venezuela (MP).
How to detect suspicious activity on Binance?
If you want to avoid being a victim of crime, you should be aware of certain signs so that you can detect possible scammers when carrying out operations in Binance P2P trading:
- The user wants to pay you from someone else’s account.
- The counterparty asks for your WhatsApp number or wants to negotiate outside the platform.
- Your counterparty pressures you to release the cryptocurrencies without going into your bank.
- Access to your bank account is blocked.
- They send you fake vouchers, SMS or emails.
- Your counterparty tells you that the payment will reach you in a few hours or after you release the funds.
- Your counterparty is posing as support or insisting that they are going to report your account.
- Your counterparty has a new account, with several positive comments from transactions in payment methods that are not from your country.
- Your counterpart speaks strangely, as if using a translator.