{"id":22084,"date":"2022-05-26T00:05:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T21:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/?p=22084"},"modified":"2022-05-26T00:05:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T21:05:01","slug":"29-moonbirds-were-stolen-by-clicking-a-bad-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/29-moonbirds-were-stolen-by-clicking-a-bad-link\/","title":{"rendered":"29 Moonbirds were stolen by clicking a bad link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Proof Collective member has fallen victim to a scam, losing 29 highly-valuable Ethereum (ETH)-based Moonbirds. According to a tweet by Cirrus on Wednesday morning, the victim lost 29 Moonbird nonfungible tokens (NFTs) worth $1.5 million after clicking a malicious link shared by a scammer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">29 Moonbirds were just stolen in a hack.<\/p>\n<p>~750e (~$1,500,000) in value lost by clicking on a bad link.<\/p>\n<p>Sickening seeing stuff like this. Let this be a reminder to never ever click on links and to bookmark the marketplaces\/trading sites that you use.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7iWO5LMovL\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/7iWO5LMovL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cirrus (@CirrusNFT)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CirrusNFT\/status\/1529296043547865088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dollar, a Twitter personality and NFT holder, claimed that the so-called culprit is already half doxxed by the crypto exchange, and that Proof Collective and its members are currently working on a full report to the FBI.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ole2ObD75o\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/ole2ObD75o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 crypt0savage (@crypt0savage)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/crypt0savage\/status\/1529299195043135489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just1n.eth, another user, claimed that while he was attempting to negotiate a deal, a trader insisted on using an unsavory &#8220;p2peer&#8221; platform to conclude the transaction. Sulphaxyz confirmed that it ha happened to him as well and identified the con artist as the same culprit.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear how many victims in total have been duped by the perpetrator, but it&#8217;s a harsh reminder that even the savviest of NFT investors need to be on their toes when it comes to scammers. The recent crypto scams are a harsh wake-up call for NFT owners to exercise caution when dealing with third-party platforms, and to double-check anything shared by others, even if they appear trustworthy.<\/p>\n<p>Cointelegraph recently reported that NFT creator Mike Winkelmann, better known as Beeple, had his Twitter\u00a0account hacked in a phishing attack. The scam earned the attacker $438K in cryptocurrency and NFTs from the compromised Beeple account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Proof Collective member has fallen victim to a scam, losing 29 highly-valuable Ethereum (ETH)-based Moonbirds. According to a tweet by Cirrus on Wednesday morning, the victim lost 29 Moonbird nonfungible tokens (NFTs) worth $1.5 million after clicking a malicious link shared by a scammer. 29 Moonbirds were just stolen in a hack. ~750e (~$1,500,000) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2242],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22087,"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22084\/revisions\/22087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}