Moonbirds NFTs drained in US$1.5 mln phishing scam
Around US$1.5 million worth of 29 Moonbirds non-fungible tokens (NFT) were stolen in a phishing scam on Wednesday.
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Fast facts
A phishing attack is where scammers use deceptive means to direct victims to malicious links to steal personal information.
Twitter user @0xLosingMoney has presented blockchain and internet records to accuse @Dvincent of contacting NFT owners to offer private sales through fraudulent platform “p2peers.io”
The alleged perpetrator’s Twitter profile has since been deleted or deactivated, and was not accessible as of press time.
Moonbirds was also the center of a phishing attack in the first few days after launching in mid-April where scammers used hacked verified Twitter accounts to pose as official Moonbirds accounts.
Scammers recently hacked the Twitter account of star NFT artist Mike Winkelmann (Beeple) to run a phishing scam that drained over US$72,000 worth of ETH.
Moonbirds is one of the leading NFT collections at the moment, transacting over US$500 million in sales since launch.
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