Twitter Scammers Hijack Accounts To Promote Fake Azuki NFT

Twitter scammers hijack verified accounts to promote a fake Azuki NFT airdrop and a few users have been scammed already so let’s read more today in our latest cryptocurrency news today.

Similarly, with the recent Apecoins cam, the perpetrators stole users’ accounts and launched a similar NFT token scam. The users that claim to be affiliated with the Azuki NFT project are scamming the people and stealing NFTs from their wallets. The Twitter scammers hijack the profiles of verified users and these include some profiles of journalists to perpetuate the scheme.

the users were warned to beware which means they should check if they are tagged in a thread about an opportunity for a free Azuki NFT and make sure not to connect them to an ETH wallet. It is also likely a part of a recent scam and it is not an official initiative from the real Azuki creators. Scammers are hijacking the accounts of the verified Twitter users and are changing the profile text and images to suggest that the accounts actually belong to one of the co-creators of the popular Azuki project.

The scammer tweeted out a link promising a secret airdrop of Beanz, the NFT drop which was given out free to the existing Azuki NFT holders last week. The tweet suggested that the NFT collections in the community have to click the link and claim the bean and then get prompted to connect an ETH wallet as a part of the fraudulent scheme. What seems to happen is that people that connect a wallet to the site had their NFTs stolen from wallets and of course, they didn’t receive anything in return. In the latest two cases, the journalists in question had a compromised account in a phishing email that was claimed to be sent out by Twitter’s support team.

There was one journalist that spoke about the condition of anonymity and said that their account sent out more than 6000 tweets with about half of them tagging more victims for the scheme. The Azuki-themed scam is quite similar to the approach to their recent one surrounding Apecoin the ETH-based token created for the budding Web3 ecosystem which was built on Yuga labs’ Bored ape Yacht Club NFT project. About $1million worth of NFTS were stolen from the collectors that interacted with the Twitter scam that promised a new airdrop and a bounty of ApeCoin tokens to users. When someone connected a wallet, the scammers stole the NFTs that were in the wallet like Mutant Ape  Yacht Club and Bored ape collectibles.