The answer is yes. Let me tell you how? Recently, I got scammed by a Verified Merchant name Janan Trader. I sold $76.20 to him. He marked order as paid and I released the assets. Here is a twist.
He paid me from account name Muhammad Hammad. I asked him for screenshot but he didn't answer. But as I received exact payment I completed the order. Then he claimed that payment as a fraud against me. I have come to know via email that my account got blocked due to his transaction. Everything is clear mentioned but still the merchant is not answering me even after seeing all the proofs. He even didn't send payment proof yet. He simply said, I made payment. Well, it is understandable but why you reported then after getting crypto assets?
I found from his feedback that he also did a payment from anyone else account to a user's that resulted in his account block. He was trying to reach this merchant in feedback section as he was not answering in chat.
Actually he is trying to scam me by sending money from different account and then reclaimed it as a fraud payment. First, he got the crypto assets and now he wants payment back through bank. As you all know, in Pakistan,we cannot tell banks this is a crypto amount. But then I saw multiple videos on YouTube in which P2P Scams are described and how to report a P2P scammer. Then I involved Binance support team by making appeal against him. Today is the second day and still he didn't provide any payment proof, not shared the account owner's information.
Now, there are two senerios. First, he is going to make written statement that he didn't claimed any fraud payment against me along with providing me the account holders CNIC front and back picture. Second, I have to loose twice as I lost my assets and now to unblock my account, I have to send money back to his account.
I provided all proofs to Binance support team and asked for my crypto assets repay. Let's see what happens next. I will write in the next post. Further, it is a challenge for Binance support team as well to maintain it's user's privacy, assets protection and shutting down the accounts of p2p scammers. I am expecting transparency from Binance support team as I provided all the proofs. But I will definitely keep you update regarding this issue that what efforts and actions were done from Binance support team and it's result.
You people can check order number, date, time, total amount and transaction ID. Also check the email that I got from my bank in which clearly mentioned that due to this Transaction ID my account got blocked.
I am uploading proofs as well. Becareful from the verified Merchant. They can also do P2P scams with you. Share this post to let everyone know about Verified Merchant scams as well. Report of part 2 of this P2P Verified Merchant is on the way.
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