2022-3-26 06:14 |
NFT-related scams have been on the rise lately; finally, authorities in the US arrested two over an alleged rug pull involving NFT assets. NFT Projects: Good or bad? More than once, we’ve witnessed NFTs being used as a tool to scam, steal, or launder money. origin »
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The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced the indictment of three UK nationals for the $3 million ‘Evolved Apes’ NFT (non-fungible tokens) scam. The suspects face charges of wire fraud and money laundering.
2024-6-8 05:00 | |
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A senior student at Shanghai’s Tongji University fell victim to an NFT scam, losing around $548,000 after his non-fungible token was stolen through a phishing scam. The NFT artwork which Niq Chen bought from the well-known Doodles Collectible NFT project entitled “LuckyCot 3D,” made up roughly half the value of his entire NFT assets, he […]
2022-2-23 15:58 | |
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OpenSea is in the midst of figuring out an attack on its platform that appears to be a phishing scheme according to tweets by the company and its CEO. At some point yesterday, OpenSea stated that a phishing scam had caused 32 users to sign into a malicious payload from an attacker and, unfortunately, some […] The post OpenSea Phishing Attack Causes Concern in Hot NFT Market appeared first on NFT News Today.
2022-2-21 19:57 | |
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Thanks to vigilant crypto enthusiasts, the alleged scammers were stopped dead in their tracks.
2022-2-17 21:30 | |
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We are sorry to inform you that our Discord server has been a target of a malicious group of hackers. The hackers took over our MammEths discord on February 13, 2022, and through a scam post that mentioned a pre-mint event tried to lure our devoted community to a malicious website in order to extract […] The post New NFT project MammEths Discord group HACKED appeared first on NFT News Today.
2022-2-14 05:06 | |
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NFT investors are demanding that marketplaces recognize and give value to their users, prompting competitors like LOOKS, SOS and WTF to launch ambitious vampire attacks on OpenSea.
2022-1-21 03:00 | |
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Never a dull day in crypto: Impersonators are sending phishing emails on behalf of credible DeFi and NFT enthusiasts
2021-10-31 17:51 | |
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"Celebs really think they can come into an industry they know nothing about, never interact with the community, then launch a scam project they’ll abandon in 3 months?” questioned Twitter user 0x_fxnction.
2021-9-22 19:00 | |
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This past week, a link on the website of the infamous graffiti artist Banksy, advertised a piece of art as the creator's first NFT (non-fungible token). The post Artist Bansky Warned of Website Exploit a Week Before Scam NFT Sale appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2021-9-5 18:32 | |
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Contrary to expectations of most skeptics, the NFT trend did not end, nor did it burst, or end up being a scam. In fact, it is stronger than ever, with even CNN now joining the ranks of those who are creating and launching digital tokenized collectibles.
2021-6-18 11:14 | |
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The crypto world is crashing, or so some say, and not without some schadenfreude as they point towards two recent dramatic dips in the charts — namely, for NFTs and Bitcoin. This has prompted the crypto-critical to decry not only on NFTs as a ‘scam’ but to point fingers at the crypto market as a […]
2021-6-12 20:51 | |
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Falling crypto prices caused crypto scam revenue to plummet in 2022, but two scam types managed to persist.
“You can’t solicit funds for a business opportunity, abandon that business and abscond with money investors provided you,” stressed IRS-CI special agent-in-charge Thomas Fattorusso.