A blockchain developer has successfully survived the “most sophisticated fraud” attempt he has ever seen.
According to the post made by 0xMario, a person created a new In the web3 game contacted him to work as a developer.
The developer, who learned that the name of the game was MythIsland, examined the project’s website and found out that everything was should be and it looks like that there is nothing to doubt he thought.
Later, he started meeting with the project team via Telegram and learned the details of the job offered to him and who he would work with.
The project team told the developer that the game was in alpha stage and that he needed to download the game and open an account. 0xMario wrote:
“Although I thought this was a completely real team, (luckily) I set up a virtual Windows machine because running .exe files is always risky.”
The person, who used a random password when opening an account, encountered an error during the registration process and reported the situation to the team. later than himself Trying with another device requested but 0xMario, When you encounter the same error the project team itself blocked from all social media platforms. The developer summarized the situation as follows:
“This was a pretty impressive scam and the only thing that saved me was the OpSec (precautions) I took when I saw people and codes I didn’t know online. “I’m sure many people’s wallets are being emptied by this fraud technique.”