Users Who Want to Buy Land in the NFT Game Have Been Scammed

There have been some negative events happening over the NFT platform lately. World-renowned in the past few weeks Bored Ape Yacht Club While the Instagram account was stolen, this time the fans of the same collection were deceived.

owned by Yuga Labs Bored Ape Yacht Clubthe most popular from NFT collections known as one. However, recent events show that users’ trust has been shaken for Yuga Labs’ new collection Otherdeed. Because a recent fraud may be one of the best examples of this.

Bored Ape Yacht Club fans scammed

According to the latest news, Yuga Labs Bored Ape Yacht Club members have become the new target of scammers. Yuga Labs recently his new collection, Otherdeed, was made available for purchase. Interest in the Otherside crypto-based video game, which is part of the collection, was greater than expected.

In a short time, a large number of users lined up to buy plots from Otherside. However, due to the intensity experienced right after the lands were opened for sale, some users had problems in their payments. Users, who stated that their payments were deducted from their accounts but nothing they received appeared, became the target of fraudsters after the news spread. scammers, the otherside via impersonating phishing sites, telling users they will ‘refund their gas payments’ 3.7 million dollar hit.

crypto security firm Pechkshield discovered that the scammers had at least five Twitter accounts with the corresponding website. These accounts, which trap the user with the lie that NFT has fallen, misled the user and took over their accounts by asking them to connect their digital wallets. In this incident, users suffered a total loss of 3.7 million dollars. Of course, there was another break in the trust in the popular NFT collection.