A link forwarded in a group chat reads "Binance relief campaign, register and receive USDT", and the page looks convincingly like the Binance official site, even pasting the Binance Charity Foundation logo. Imposter sites leveraging "charity" and "relief" have surged in the past two years, and many people lose their accounts trying to do good. Telling a real Binance Charity page from a fake one has one shortcut: start from Binance's main official site binance.com and jump in from there, rather than trusting an unfamiliar link in reverse.
Pin the official Binance URL in your browser bookmarks, and always click through from there to any charity, airdrop, or relief page. Those without an account can first register a Binance account via the verified link, and we also recommend downloading the Binance App to your phone. Charity pages redirected from inside the app are signature-verified by nature and will not land on fakes.
What Is Binance Charity?
Binance Charity, in Chinese "币安公益基金会", is a non-profit project under the Binance Group doing two main things: launching crypto-currency donations during natural disasters, wars, and pandemics, delivering on-chain traceable funds directly to recipients; and running long-term programmes in children's education, refugee aid, and medical support.
What is special is that every donation is on-chain — anyone can verify wallet addresses and flows via a block explorer. So Binance Charity pages often publicly display BNB, BTC, USDT and other donation addresses, with a real-time total dashboard. But precisely because the addresses are public, impostors find it easy to imitate — swap the address for their own, and the page is indistinguishable.
The Real Entry Point of the Binance Charity Official Site
Binance Charity does not have a new independent domain. It is a subpath of the Binance official website binance.com, accessed from "More" in the top menu or the "Binance Charity" entry in the footer.
Remember the logic:
- The main domain is always binance.com
- The charity area is at /charity or /zh-CN/charity under the main domain
- No independent .org, .charity, or .foundation domain exists
- QR donation pages on any non-binance.com domain should never be scanned
Counter-example: imposters use domains like binance-charity.org, binancefoundation.com, or binance-relief.net that sound "official" and post relief campaigns. Clicking through, you are asked to connect a wallet for authorisation or enter your mnemonic. The real Binance Charity never asks for a mnemonic, and all operations occur under the main site's logged-in state.
Common Patterns of Imposter Relief Campaigns
Observed imposter Binance Charity activities in the past two years have changed form but share essentials:
Riding breaking-news hot topics. Earthquake, flood, conflict — within 48 hours a batch of "Binance Emergency Relief Fund" phishing sites appears. Pages use real disaster photos and news screenshots, with a "Click to claim relief airdrop" or "Register to donate 100 USDT" button.
Fake dashboard dynamic numbers. The page shows scrolling "12,384 participants", "Total USD 24.5 million donated" with numbers ticking every few seconds. These are front-end effects hard-coded into the script, unrelated to real donations. The real Binance Charity dashboard labels each wallet address with a block-explorer link for verification.
Asking for wallet-connect authorisation. A popup says "Please connect MetaMask/TrustWallet to participate in the donation". The actual authorisation signed over is an unlimited allowance of a token in your wallet to an attacker's contract. Once signed, the token is drained at will.
Fake co-sponsoring agencies. Pages display UNICEF, Red Cross, WFP logos to borrow trust. Real Binance Charity joint programmes are case-described on binance.com/charity, not only on some unfamiliar domain.
Support-chat group pulls. After you leave your email or Telegram on a fake page, a "Binance Charity specialist" contacts you and pulls you into a group, luring you to deposit or share account info. Binance Charity has no private customer service or Telegram group — all communication goes through official tickets.
How to Verify Charity Campaigns Inside the App
The safest practice is not entering via external links but opening the Binance app directly:
- Bottom navigation → "More" or "Wallet" page
- Locate the "Binance Charity" entry
- Browse the currently running relief projects inside the app
- Donation buttons and wallet addresses are all in-app signed, no external jumps
If a friend sends you a relief link, you can search the campaign title inside the app — a real campaign always has the same-named entry in the app's charity section. Not in the app? It is counterfeit.
Another verification method: use the "Verification Channel" feature inside the Binance app:
- Open the app → Security Center
- Find "Verify Official Channels" or "Verify"
- Enter the suspicious link, Telegram handle, or email
- The app returns whether the channel is Binance official
This feature handles domains, social accounts, and emails — the most direct tool for distinguishing "official identity".
How to Verify a Donation Wallet Address
If you truly want to make a donation through Binance Charity, the flow should be:
On the main site binance.com/charity, select a specific project; the page lists the project's on-chain wallet addresses (typically one each for BTC, ETH, BNB mainnets). Copy the address and open a standalone block explorer (blockchain.com, etherscan.io, bscscan.com) to query. The real Binance Charity address has several features:
- Transaction history is typically thousands to tens of thousands of entries
- Multiple large-amount inbound transfers from Binance hot wallets
- Labelled "Binance Charity" by multiple on-chain analytics platforms
- Found historically in Binance's official blog and past tweets
If the address is freshly created with only a handful of test transactions and no authoritative labels, you can classify it as counterfeit.
FAQ
Q: Can I trust an email claiming to be from Binance Charity asking me to fill a form?
First check for the anti-phishing code at the top — without it, it is fake. Formal Binance Charity communications go through the main account's email and include the anti-phishing code you set earlier. Any email asking for mnemonics, private keys, or login passwords is, without exception, a scam.
Q: Does Binance Charity make cold calls for donations?
No. Binance and its philanthropic entities make no phone, SMS, or WeChat group fundraising calls. All donations are user-initiated — no staff contacts you asking for payment.
Q: What receipt do I get after donating?
The on-chain transaction itself is the receipt. Searching your outbound address in any block explorer shows the transaction — publicly verifiable. The Binance Charity page also publishes detailed fund-usage reports after the project concludes.
Q: Are the relief airdrops real?
Binance has in specific disaster events distributed stablecoin aid to local users, but distribution is to "existing Binance users who have completed KYC with a registration address in the disaster area", via in-app push notification — no registration link is needed. Anyone asking you to "click to register and claim an airdrop" is fake.
Q: Can scammed funds be recovered after an imposter site?
Immediately do three things: transfer remaining assets in the account to a cold wallet or another account, revoke suspicious authorisations (using tools like revoke.cash), and submit a ticket to Binance support reporting the imposter site. Binance risk control can freeze funds entering the exchange in some cases, but on-chain funds that have been dispersed are essentially unrecoverable.
Q: How do I report a counterfeit Binance Charity website?
Log in to binance.com, find "Report Scam" in the footer, submit the suspicious domain, screenshots, and description. Binance's anti-phishing team coordinates takedown with registrars and search engines. You can also submit to public anti-scam platforms like Chainabuse and ScamSniffer to warn other users.
To permanently internalise the habit of distinguishing Binance Charity's official site takes just one rule: always start all charity, relief, and airdrop entries from binance.com or the official app — never accept redirects from external links. Once the domain, wallet address, and support identity are asked to be confirmed on an unfamiliar page, they can essentially be rejected outright.