{"id":171454,"date":"2023-10-10T16:09:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T10:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=171454"},"modified":"2023-10-10T16:09:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T10:39:36","slug":"binance-users-in-hong-kong-hooked-by-us450000-phishing-attacks-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/binance-users-in-hong-kong-hooked-by-us450000-phishing-attacks-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Binance users in Hong Kong hooked by US$450,000 phishing attacks &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Hong Kong police warned on Monday that 11 Hong Kong-based Binance users lost over US$446,000 (HK$3.5 million) in cryptocurrencies to phishing text messages in the last two weeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See related article: <\/em><\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/forkast.news\/gitcoin-error-sends-us460000-digital-void\/\">Gitcoin error sends US$460,000 to digital void<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fast Facts<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Fraudulent texts from a Binance impersonator asked users to click a link and verify their identity, warning that users would otherwise lose their accounts. Victims who complied had their accounts taken over and funds drained, the Hong Kong police <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=352913033756045&amp;set=a.184734933907190\">said<\/a> on Monday.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Hong Kong authorities urged users who receive similar suspicious messages to report them to the police\u2019s fraud prevention <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberdefender.hk\/\">page<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>At the end of September, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/forkast.news\/hong-kong-jpex-scandal-says-ex-sfc-official\/\">Hong Kong\u2019s financial watchdog<\/a> warned investors to only use regulated crypto exchanges, after unlicensed trading platform JPEX allegedly caused around US$154 million in losses to over 1,600 investors, marking the largest fraud case in Hong Kong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Hong Kong\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/forkast.news\/sfc-monitor-illegal-vatp-activities-hong-kong-police-force\/\">Securities and Futures Commission<\/a> and the Hong Kong Police Force announced last Wednesday the establishment of a working group to monitor illegal activities related to crypto trading platforms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>See related article: <\/em><\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/forkast.news\/cmcc-global-raises-us100-mln-launch-hong-kong-web3-fund\/\">CMCC Global raises US$100 mln to launch Hong Kong Web3 fund<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hong Kong police warned on Monday that 11 Hong Kong-based Binance users lost over US$446,000 (HK$3.5 million) in cryptocurrencies to phishing text messages in the last two weeks. See related article: Gitcoin error sends US$460,000 to digital void Fast Facts Fraudulent texts from a Binance impersonator asked users to click a link and verify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[201,248,251,246,257,255,250,252,247,253,249,256,254],"class_list":["post-171454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-others","tag-blockchain","tag-bsc","tag-chainlink","tag-coin","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-gta","tag-looks-rare","tag-oracle","tag-polygon","tag-quickswap","tag-safe-moon","tag-wallet","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171456,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171454\/revisions\/171456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}