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Warning of this new Opensea NFT Scam!

 


There are always so-called scams in the world. Scams are particularly prevalent in the crypto market, since scams are mostly decentralized so that they cannot be traced back. Because of this, you have to be more careful not to fall into a trap and get scammed yourself. Now a new NFT scam has appeared on Opensea , which is very tempting at first if you are a victim of it. With this NFT scam, fraudsters can empty your entire wallet, which is why you should be careful!


How does the new NFT scam work?

NFT Wallets

The NFT scam arose because Opensea released their code. This allowed scammers to get exploits faster and create new scams. Because the scammers had or have the code, they found a new exploit. This works as follows:

The scammer will send you any NFT

He offers you (for example) 0.5 WETH for this NFT

You accept that 0.5 WETH thinking it's a quick $750 free

He gets full access to the wallet and can empty all your NFTs

One must note here that the payment is made via Wrapped Ether . To date, no other scam is known to occur with “normal” Ethereum. If you ever get an NFT airdropped, we recommend that you just leave this NFT where it is and don't move it or anything else. It may be that other NFT scams are already in circulation, which are not yet known.

How to protect yourself from the NFT Scam?

As a rule, you should never interact with other people's NFTs that you have not acquired yourself. As mentioned earlier. You should definitely avoid this, no matter how high an offer for the “foreign” NFT is! Furthermore, you should always pay attention to whether, if an offer is made for an allegedly purchased NFT, it is really the NFT.


Scammers could simply copy an NFT image and then send you the NFT. So one might think that the NFT sent is the original, whereas it is only a copy. Because of this, you should always double check before accepting an offer.

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