Be Alert! Scammers Are On The Hunt – They Have Just Stolen An Azuki NFT On OpenSea

Updated: 23 January 2024

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The global scam network is on the hunt for innocent investors, with most notorious scammers exerting more of their heinous attacks on crypto investors. In yet another scam attack, scammers have just stolen some non-fungible token collection on Opensea NFT marketplace in a phishing attack.

Scammers Steal Azuki #5007 And Beanz #8008 NFTs

In a January 23 blog post, Peckshield, a renowned blockchain security firm, confirmed that unknown notorious scammers had stolen some NFTs, including Beanz Official #8008 and Azuki #5007, on Opensea NFT marketplace in a phishing attack.

#PeckShieldAlert #Phishing #NFT #BEANZOfficial #8808 and #Azuki #Elemental #5007 have been stolen by #Fake_Phishing276019 on #OpenSea pic.twitter.com/xxe3kMhjHs

— PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) January 23, 2024

Established in 2018, PeckShield is a blockchain-based security firm started by former Qihoo 360 Chief Scientist Xuxian Jiang, and major investors include Gaorong Capital. Other team members are seasoned security professionals and senior researchers from world-leading security groups such as Qihoo 360, Microsoft, Intel, Juniper, and Alibaba.

Since its inception, PeckShield has established strategic and long-term cooperation with key players in all areas of the blockchain ecosystem, such as blockchain infrastructure vendors, exchanges, crypto wallets, mining pools, DApp developers, and DeFi pioneers. Due to its dozens of years of experience, Peckshield has successfully revealed and thwarted many scams attacks.

Most Recent Crypto And NFT Scams

On Friday last week, Peckshield blockchain security firm confirmed that scammers had stolen three non-fungible token collections, including Beanz NFT #16149, Beanz NFT #12,990 and Beanz #607 NFT collection, on Blur.io in a phishing attack.

#PeckShieldAlert #Phishing NFT #BEANZOfficial #16149, #12990 and #607 have been stolen by #Fake_Phishing187019 on #Blur pic.twitter.com/avvYmjbWaF

— PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) January 18, 2024

Moreover, the blockchain security company also revealed that scammers stole Lil Pudgy #8867, Lil Pudgy #18944 and Lil Pudgy #20,797 on Blur NFT Marketplace in a phishing attack. These scammers target investors from some of the most popular NFT projects, such as Pudgy Penguins.

#PeckShieldAlert #Phishing NFT #LilPudgys #8867, #18944 and #20797 have been stolen by #Fake_Phishing187019 on #Blur pic.twitter.com/KYVUPRx4EH

— PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) January 18, 2024

On the other hand, PeckShield detected that scammers had stolen $44,800 worth of crypto assets from Rose Finance in a hack attack on January 18. Earlier this week, Peckshield has also detected that the address 0x1749…3487 fell victim to a phishing scheme, resulting in a loss of ~$3.87m worth of $aEthWETH.

#PeckShieldAlert PeckShield has detected that @rosa_finance has been exploited for ~$44.8K worth of cryptos pic.twitter.com/RqCW25Kfll

— PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) January 18, 2024