Scammers Steal Victims Cryptowallets And NFTs, Posing as OpenSea Agents

The latest, quite significant, and severe Discord phishing attack intended at stealing cryptocurrency funds and NFTs have badly attacked OpenSea users. Cybercriminals have been sneaking on OpenSea’s Discord server for the past week, masquerading as authorized support representatives for the website. These bogus employees provide confidential support to an OpenSea user in need, resulting in the loss of cryptocurrency and NFT collectibles managed in the victim’s MetaMask wallets. 

OpenSea is the world’s largest NFT marketplace, with a 542 percent rise in volume over the last month, accounting for over half of the company’s entire lifetime transaction volume of $2.423 billion. 

OpenSea is indeed a peer-to-peer marketplace for crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens. It encompasses collectibles, gaming items, and other virtual products secured by a blockchain. A smart contract on OpenSea allows anybody to buy or sell these products. This instance was a scenario where the fraudsters took advantage of the working of the site. 

Whenever an OpenSea user requires assistance, they could contact the site’s help center or the site’s Discord server. Later when the user joins the Discord server and publishes a help request, fraudsters lurking on the server immediately start sending the user personal messages. These messages include an invitation to an OpenSea Support server to receive further assistance. 

Jeff Nicholas, an artist who was a victim of this fraud, informed Bleeping Computer that after joining the bogus OpenSea support server, the scammers urged him to open the ta

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