BTC Airdrop Conflict

Feax21
2 min readOct 31, 2020

I joined the site binancedrop.us through a telegram channel mocking binance dex service having a fake 6.000 BTC Airdrop and asking me to send them my bitcoin funds, promising that they would return them double through the binance dex fake “airdrop”.

I wouldn’t believe them but their telegram channel was full of bots with fake users reassuring me that the airdrop offer was true through in their website, where they had embedded an official Binance Dex video about the launching of their service. But due to my FOMO of losing the airdrop, I decided to give them a try and I withdrew my 0.06614129 bitcoins to their shared address “1MLVs6A6YFQZkQxYt9y8994MR5sYCDANGa” in order to receive their “airdrop” but as soon the bitcoins were delivered, both the channel and the site disappeared.

My funds were available in their shared address according to https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/1MLVs6A6YFQZkQxYt9y8994MR5sYCDANGa but it appears that they forwarded them into another address bc1q4m7f7j3ypkxe6j3nkzewkqh7rgla9msrn2r2sg according to https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/bc1q4m7f7j3ypkxe6j3nkzewkqh7rgla9msrn2r2sg so i couldn’t recover them anymore.

I tried to contact Binance Customer Support but it wasn’t even willing to respond to my submitted ticket (4545344) or provide any compensation as the scammers used illegally Binance Dex logo, trademark, launched videos and intellectual property. Their customer support service is awful because they provide no support since the Bitcoin service isn’t regulated.

Later Chrome browser identified the website as dangerous and deceptive before it was completely removed from the world wide web.

What i hate about hackers is that they target hard working middle class crypto users instead of hunting down the rich people. Or is it too difficult to scam rich people ?

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