What happened this weekend with BANESCO?
Banesco’s “Corrientazo” to
#P2P Apparently this weekend, social networks like X, TikTok, and trading groups on Telegram were flooded with a lot of user reports. When they tried to log into their Banesco online banking, they got the message “Inactive User” or their account was blocked—everything without prior notice.
This whole situation affected ATMs and heavy merchants. Apparently it wasn’t isolated cases affecting small accounts. The wave of suspensions directly hit verified merchants (with the yellow checklist) and users who move high volumes of $USDT and
#VES daily on Binance.
The cause of this incident was compliance with Sudeban regulations. It was leaked that the bank carried out an automated mass sweep applying Sudeban compliance regulations. The system detected as “suspicious activity” the receipt of funds from multiple different account holders in a very short period of time—a behavior typical of
#trading P2P.
As a result, the main analysts and content creators from Binance Square and social networks in Venezuela are spreading three key alerts to avoid falling into the same situation:
1-Avoid using personal accounts; instead, use legal/corporate accounts.
2-Do not use suspicious descriptions such as “Binance,” “USDT,” “Crypto,” or “P2P” in the transfer or Mobile Payment concepts, since bank filters detect them immediately.
3-Temporarily shift your P2P operations to other, less strict banking entities using frequency algorithms or by using alternative methods while the tide with Banesco goes down.
I already said in my previous post that it was strange how more banks like Venezuela and Mercantil appeared over the weekend when trying to buy or sell.