Individuals who nonetheless use NBA Prime Shot had been the first targets of a rip-off tweet posted to ESPN reporter Adrian Wojnarowski’s account on X Saturday night at about 6:30PM ET. The tweet referred to NBA Prime Shot as a “well-liked” NFT platform, even though present exercise ranges are a tiny fraction of what we noticed throughout its peak, and falsely claimed a “free NFT pack is on the market to all clients.”
The tweet linked guests to a rip-off model of the NBA Prime Shot web site (the hyperlink went to a .org handle as an alternative of the official web site’s .com URL) that might try to empty property from individuals who give it entry to their crypto wallets. A few half hour later, the official Prime Shot account posted, saying, “There’s NO Free Airdrop taking place on NBA Prime Shot presently, Please watch out and all the time double examine hyperlinks.”
The put up was finally pulled from Wojnarowski’s account after being stay for almost an hour. Due to his popularity for breaking information tweets, many NBA followers have alerts turned on for his posts and will have had account info stolen in the event that they clicked the fraudulent hyperlink.
A variety of high-profile Twitter / X accounts proceed to get compromised. Wojnarowski’s latest NBA information posts have additionally been syndicated on Threads, nonetheless that account was not used for the rip-off.
Nevertheless, the most recent NBA Prime Shot stats from monitoring web site Cryptoslam.io solely present about 8,100 distinctive sellers and 5,550 distinctive consumers for the month of January, down from the height of greater than 399,000 consumers in March 2021, so it’s uncertain there are very many individuals left utilizing it to get scammed by this sort of put up.
