A widely used token often exists on several networks at once. The name is identical, the balance is quoted the same way, and the two versions are not interchangeable.
Sending one network's version to an address expecting another's is the classic way funds disappear. The transfer often succeeds - it simply lands somewhere nothing is watching. This is why every deposit screen asks for the network separately from the address, and why that dropdown deserves the same attention as the address itself. Recovery, when possible at all, is slow, manual, and never guaranteed.
Binance Academy covers this in more depth: https://www.binance.com/en/academy/glossary/cross-chain
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