The long one
The account settings worth changing before your first deposit
Eight settings, in the order they actually matter, and the two that people switch on and then quietly regret.
Complete index
Crypto exchange account security guides: settings, scams and hacked accounts
Grouped by when they are useful rather than by topic: before anything has happened, while someone is trying, and after something has.
I. Securing your account, eight entries
Walkthrough
Opening a Binance account: verification, security setup, first deposit
One exchange end to end, with the security work done in the gap before any money moves.
Guide
SMS, authenticator app, passkey or security key
Four options compared by what each one resists, not by which sounds strongest.
Guide
Moving Google Authenticator to a new phone without getting locked out
Ten minutes if the old phone works. A multi-day identity process if it does not.
Guide
Where to keep 2FA backup codes, and three places that fail
The five-second test that tells you whether your storage is really a backup.
Guide
How to set up a withdrawal whitelist and its waiting period
The list is not the protection. The hold on newly added addresses is.
Guide
Exchange API key permissions: why to leave withdrawal off
The one credential that bypasses your password and your second factor.
Guide
How to check login history and devices on an exchange account
Which oddities in a device list are harmless, and which are not.
II. Scam emails, calls and SIM swaps, four entries
Guide
Anti-phishing codes: what they prove, and what they cannot
The guarantee runs one way only, and the reverse is where people get caught.
Guide
Is this exchange email real? A check that takes about a minute
Four checks in order, none of which involve clicking anything.
Guide
Fake crypto exchange support calls: four scripts
Name the opening and the rest of the conversation becomes predictable.
Guide
SIM swap protection for a crypto exchange account
Two changes, one at the exchange and one at the mobile operator.
III. If your account is hacked, four entries
Guide
Crypto exchange account hacked: what to do in the first hour
Four starting states, each with a different first action.
Guide
I gave a scammer my verification code
What that particular code authorised decides everything that follows.
Guide
Exchange account restricted or frozen: what an appeal needs
A restriction is a question. The quality of the answer sets the timeline.
Guide
Are crypto recovery services a scam?
Nobody found you by accident, and that is most of the defence.