{"id":120650,"date":"2023-07-11T04:07:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T04:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/scammers-are-stealing-nfts-by-creating-an-opensea-clone-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2023-07-11T04:07:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T04:07:56","slug":"scammers-are-stealing-nfts-by-creating-an-opensea-clone-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/scammers-are-stealing-nfts-by-creating-an-opensea-clone-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Scammers Are Stealing NFTs By Creating an OpenSea Clone\n &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>On Monday, July 10, US Prosecutors charged a Moroccan man for stealing two Bored Ape NFTs, and other digital assets by creating a fake OpenSea marketplace.  The person stole a total of $450,000 in NFTs and cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>Soufiane Oulahyane, 25, created the fake OpenSea NFT website and tricked victims into sharing their seed phrases, that give access to one&#8217;s crypto wallet.  This was, the person guilty gained access to the accounts on the actual OpenSea marketplace, said the Department of Justice.  In a statement on Monday, Manhattan US Attorney Damian Williams said:<\/p>\n<p><!-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v. 2.0.72.1 --><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The practice is known as &#8220;spoofing,&#8221; which is &#8220;one of the oldest tricks in the criminal playbook&#8221;.  \u201cOulahyane adapted this old tool for use in a new and developing arena\u2014the crypto space.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The overall NFT market is currently going through a rough phase with the floor prices of top NFT projects like BAYC hitting a multi-month low.  As a result, the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/coingape.com\/breaking-bayc-and-mayc-tokens-stolen-in-phishing-scam\/\">frauds taking place in the NFT space<\/a> have also been increasing simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutors have charged Oulahyane with stealing someone&#8217;s cryptocurrency in New York.  The victim&#8217;s identity was not revealed.  Oulahyane also sold 39 of the victim&#8217;s NFTs (non-fungible tokens) on OpenSea.  This includes a cartoon ape wearing a sailor cap and smoking a cigar, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bnnbloomberg.ca\/bored-ape-thefts-on-fake-opensea-site-lead-to-charges-1.1943923\">accordingly<\/a> to the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p><!-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v. 2.0.72.1 --><\/p>\n<h3>OpenSea NFT Scam<\/h3>\n<p><!-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v. 2.0.72.1 --><\/p>\n<p>As per the government investigation, Oulahyane paid for sponsored links on an unidentified search engine.  Upon clicking the link, users were directed to a phony site that looked like OpenSea&#8217;s login page.  Soon as the users entered the seed phrases on this phony website, the details moved to Oulahyane.<\/p>\n<p>According to prosecutors, the victim also spent around $18,700 for the ape NFT and $3,400 for the dog NFT, purchased using 9.88 Ether and 1.789 Ether, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Oulahyane faces charges of wire fraud, using an unauthorized access device, aggravated identity theft, and using an access device to steal a minimum of $1,000.  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The person stole a total of $450,000 in NFTs and cryptocurrencies. Soufiane Oulahyane, 25, created the fake OpenSea NFT website and tricked victims into sharing their seed phrases, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[230,225,221,227,226,228,229,60,223,224,222],"class_list":["post-120650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-brave","tag-coinbase","tag-crypto","tag-decentralised","tag-decentralized","tag-decentralized-exchange","tag-erc-20","tag-featured","tag-meme-coin","tag-robinhood","tag-solana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120652,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120650\/revisions\/120652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}