2023-07-16 14:15:16
Recently, the US Attorney’s Office indicted Soufiance Oulahyane, who is currently in custody in Morocco, for embezzling cryptocurrencies and NFTs. The defendant defrauded a Manhattan victim of $450,000 in NFTs and cryptos by creating a fake OpenSea marketplace website in 2021. Through this, he obtained his victim’s key, which he then used to steal the devices in his possession. The attack was a typical spoofing scam. The NFTs included one member each from the Bored Ape Yacht Club, Bored Ape Kennel Club, Meebit, and Crypto Dad series. In addition to non-fungible tokens, Oulahyane also gained access to the victim’s crypto wallet. And in total, he rode a value of 448,923 dollars. The defendant consciously prepared for his action. After all, he paid a significant amount in one of the more popular search engines in order to be able to push his fake website in front of his victim. And as soon as the victim entered his key on the fake website, it was immediately sent to an email address owned by Oulahyane. And he did not hesitate and moved both NFTs and cryptos to his own wallet. The American prosecutor’s office did not name the victim, nor which search engine managed to push the fake OpenSea website to the top of the results list. This type of fraud is called spoofing. Hackers and fraudsters trick their victims into clicking on links, entering passwords or downloading attachments. This includes, for example, the attack in which a BAYC holder was defrauded of nearly $600,000 on the Swap Kiwi platform. The scammer sold fake BAYC NFTs to his victim, which later turned out to be just photoshopped jpegs.
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