HOW I NARROWLY ESCAPED BEING SCAMMED ON BINANCE

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We dwell in a time where scamming and duping people off their savings is the order of the day, because these scammers go through every means to loot all we've got. Yesterday, I was fortunate to escape the trick of one such scammer who tried to play a trick on my intelligence during the withdrawal process via P2P, but luckily for me, I was attentive enough to notice the loophole.

Taking a look into what happened and how it all plays out, it was just a few minutes into the sudden HBD pump yesterday morning that a friend of mine immediately contacted me to help her exchange her HBD for fiat, and after going through all the process of converting into different coins till I arrived at my country's currency, known as the naira, I went into the P2P section of Binance to pick a trader with whom I'd exchange my crypto for fiat, and then the unexpected happens.

I chose this trader Nellex because his duration of attending to transactions is conducive, and while I was waiting for him to play the fiat into my bank account before I released my crypto, within seconds he told me he had made payment and I should release my crypto so we could conclude the transaction swiftly, and not long after that I got a message from my bank that indicated that the amount has been paid.

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But as I usually prefer to do, I open my bank app to confirm if truly the fiat has been paid, and then I noticed the trick he played, which I didn't notice via the credit alert: instead of sending the sum of ₦23,551 he sent ₦235.51 ,This literally got me annoyed because had I not decided to double check, he would have played on my intelligence and duped me of my fund without any remedy of getting it back had I released crypto.

Immediately I sent him a message in the chat section to question him, but rather than offer apologies or at least behave like someone who's sorry, he was instead rude, and just to digress from his bad behaviors and even jump into politics, he accused me of being a supporter of a failed government and so on. All this is just funny to me because I don't know how they're related to my money or what he ought to send but fails to do so.

He kept pestering me to release crypto, which I refused; I even had to discuss with my friends in the Neoxian city Discord on how best to go about the case and get @burlarj advice that I just don't release until I get my money and that I should as well report him and give him a bad review to warn his potential clients.

While on Discord, others shared their experience of how these third-party traders behave in the P2P section of Binance. I hope the Binance team works on curbing the activities of such people, or else many will keep losing funds to them.

My advice is that for every transaction we want to perform anywhere, we should try as much as possible to be vigilant, pay attention to details, even to the tiniest dot, and be certain that things are in order before we release our crypto assets to such people, because immediately we do. It's gone forever.


Note: All images are screenshot from Binance, my message and neoxian city Discord channel.


Thanks so much for your time, have a blessed and productive day.

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This guy, Nellex, thought he was being sharp. He wanted to pull a fast one on you, which may have worked if you had not gone to check you balance on your banking app.

It's very easy to not observe the commas and dots when they come in as alert. I could have fallen for it too; any one, in fact. But it's very important to check the exact balance and incoming transaction on the banking app before release. Binance warns about this

Besides, he clearly is retarded for the way he tried to converse with you, hoping you'd budge and release crypto. Thank God you didn't.

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Yoo stay safe my friend. I hope you will sort things out soon. And get your money back soon.
I hardly go into p2p transaction on Binance, a little bit dangerous.

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Only a thief will be so rude in his reply to such transaction even if this happened by mistake.

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He's a scammer and a thief no doubt at all, and a proud one again and that sucks. I've had my share of their scams in my earkyvsats when I wasn't very vigilant. I'm glad you noticed and stayed at alert during the process of transaction.

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It's saddening seeing that he has no remorse for his act, apologies for your lose then, u guess we just need to be very vigilante and attentive to all details, because these scammers have no atom of conscience in them.

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great that you cross checked well before you click the release button cos am sure that guy wont pay if you had mistakenly confirm his wrong payment

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Yea that's so true, I was very lucky and that's obviously not the first time he is doing such, we should just stay safe and be more attentive with those figures and other details.

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This scammers ehn. Don't even know what brought politics into the chat. Thankfully you completed your transaction.

I'm just laughing at that @olujay's own.

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Some humans are just something else. Why would you even make an attempt to scam someone.

It’s good you were more vigilant.

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That was a very narrow escape my friend.

He carefully sent 235.51 instead of 23,551 so that if you do not cross check very well, you’ll fall a victim and only realize it later.

Somehow , every internet scammer is clever in a way. Because of this I personally do not trust online transactions, I make sure to check, check and double check again.

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A p2p merchant has attempted something like this with me too.

In my case, the guy didn’t pay but marked the order as paid. Then in order not to make me call him a thief, he didn’t text me to ask me to release. So I texted him myself, and let him know he’s an armed robber. Then he started telling me to nonsense story about how he marked as paid before he started going through the payment method. After he was done actually paying, I didn’t release the assets until after two hours to teach him a lesson.

People really need to be vigilant with this p2p thing. There are many scammers branching into p2p as the to scam and victimize people. Glad you caught that fool.

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