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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