The FBI is warning people to be aware of draining links from spoof websites and account hijackers. Over the past couple of days, two victims have lost a combined $750K.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned of criminal actors that areand posing as legitimate people in the nonfungible token and crypto space.
Recent phishing link tweeted from Uniswap founder Hayden Adams' Twitter account by hackers. Source: Twitter, The FBI urged people to be aware of “criminal actors posing as legitimate NFT developers in financial fraud schemes targeting active users within the NFT community.” “Links provided in these announcements are phishing links directing victims to a spoofed website that appears to be a legitimate extension of a particular NFT project,” the FBI added.
However, it is worth noting that it can sometimes be more complicated than that. There are some other ways that people can have their funds drained even when not directly choosing to connecting their wallet to a dubious website.that they mistakenly clicked on a spoof Looks Rare NFT marketplace website and didn’t connect their hot wallet, but still had more than $300,000 worth of NFTs stolen.
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