A user fell for a phishing site impersonating an NFT marketplace and lost around $900k worth of non-fungible tokens.
The latest news comes in just days after a phishing hack drained more than $75k worth of assets from multiple digital wallets. Right after the hyped launch of
on March 17, scammers rushed to lure unassumed users to a link that managed to siphon off their NFTs and ETH.earlier revealed that the malicious entities bought hacked verified accounts on the micro-blogging website – Twitter – and used bots to tag people in the replies. The phishing website impersonated the BAYC claim website and lured victims into getting their free APE tokens.
NFT holders who connected their wallets to the claim site were immediately drained of their NFTs and ETH. In total, users lost nearly $73.5k . The stolen NFTs, most notably Azuki, were put up for sale by the phishers.“These scammers typically buy verified Twitter accounts on forums for a few thousand dollars and then proceed to profit running fake giveaways & advertising sketchy projects. This time they launched a phishing site.
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