In particular, the Discord servers of NFT projects targeted by scammers, such as Bored Ape Yacht Club and Nyoki Club, were affected.
The Discord servers of several popular NFT projects, including the Bored Ape Yacht Club, were targeted on April 1st. According to Motherboard, some users have reported losing money due to these bad guys who managed to hack the projects bots to post fake offers with links to their phishing sites. One of the compromised bot’s posts on the Bored Ape server read: “Oh no, our dogs are mutating. MAKC can be stacked for our $APE token. MAYC + BAYC owners will be able to earn exclusive rewards by creating and maintaining our mutant dogs.”
Discord servers of NFT projects targeted by scammers
If a user clicks on a link in a message, they are taken to a site that forces them to mint fake NFTs in exchange for Ethereum. Other versions trick victims into sending NFTs to scammers to believe different things. Two wallet addresses were linked to these hacks, one sold the stolen NFT Mutant Ape Yacht Club and the other sent 19.85 ETH, or about $69,000. The recipient’s wallet would then send 61 ETH ($213,000) to a service that can encrypt the origin and traceability of cryptocurrencies.
Bored Ape Yacht Club and Nyoki Club were noticeably affected.
It’s hard to say how many people fell victim to these scams, but the project’s administrators quickly issued a warning to users. Bored Ape asked users not to create anything from his Discord and clarified that he didn’t play “no April Fool’s jokes”. Nyoki Club issued a similar warning and acknowledged that its “server has also been compromised due to a recent large-scale hack”. And to clarify that he was able to regain control of the situation in 30 minutes.
With NFTs becoming more and more popular and celebrities such as Justin Bieber and Madonna covering these digital products, it makes sense that these types of scams are proliferating at breakneck speed. Caution.