Scammers Are Stealing Verified Twitter Accounts For A Fake Azuki NFT Airdrop.

Scammers posing as members of the Azuki NFT group are tricking people and stealing NFTs from their wallets. To carry out the scam, the scammers utilize the accounts of verified individuals, including some journalists. 

If you’ve been tagged in a thread touting a fantastic opportunity to get free Azuki NFTs, don’t follow the link and connect your Ethereum wallet. It’s most likely a recent fraud, and it’s not an official initiative from Azuki’s developers.

Scammers are stealing verified Twitter accounts, including those of journalists and media professionals, and altering the profile content and photographs to make it appear as if the account belongs to one of the Azuki project’s co-creators (the real founders at Chiru Labs all use pseudonyms).

The fraudster then tweets a link promising a “secret airdrop” of Beanz, the NFT drop that was given out for free last week solely to existing Azuki NFT holders.

According to the tweet, NFT collectors should click the link to “claim a bean,” after which they would be invited to connect an Ethereum wallet as part of the scam.

In the end, it looks that people that connect a wallet to the site have NFTs taken from their wallets. They don’t get any Beanz NFTs or anything else in exchange.

In at least two incidents, a phishing email purporting to be issued from Twitter’s support staff was used to compromise the journalist’s account. According to one journalist, their account had sent out over 6,000 tweets, nearly all of which tagged numerous potential victims for the scheme.

The Azuki-themed scam is strikingly similar to a recent one involving ApeCoin (APE), an Ethereum-based token designed for Yuga Labs’ Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT project, which is being developed around the Web3 platform.

More than $1 million in NFTs were allegedly stolen from collectors in March after they participated with a Twitter scam that offered to airdrop a bounty of ApeCoin tokens to consumers. When a wallet was connected, the scammers took all of the NFTs in the wallet, including Bored Ape and Mutant Ape Yacht Club items in some circumstances.

The ApeCoin scam hacked the Twitter accounts of verified people, including journalists, and claimed to be the founders of Yuga Labs and the Bored Ape Yacht Club, similar to the Azuki scam.

Surprisingly, some ApeCoin scam victims stated that they did not connect their wallet to the listed website, but that their NFTs were stolen nevertheless.

The scammers were successful in convincing several NFT collectors to participate in their plan by utilizing stolen verified Twitter identities. People have publicly asked why Twitter would validate a scammer in some circumstances, however it’s the other way around: a scammer took a verified account to give the impression of being credible.

It should be noted that the legitimate creators of the Bored Ape Yacht Club and Azuki NFT projects are not behind these scams in either scenario. Only existing Bored Ape holders received ApeCoin, which was delivered to NFT holders’ wallets, while Azuki NFT holders received Beans. Owners of these precious NFT collectibles are entitled to enjoy exclusive benefits.

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