The Saudis hits number 1 on OpenSea as bots claim free mint, scammers attack Discord

A new free mint NFT project called Saudi It reached the number one spot on OpenSea on launch day, reaching 4,774 ETH in the first 24 hours.However, about 10% of NFTs One person The person who made about 194 ETH.

Jason Klein It was revealed that the wallet used to sell NFTs at OpenSea was using a “massive wallet” to bot free mint. Therefore, about $ 16,000 in gas charges went to $ 234,000 within a day.

Serial NFT sniper

CryptoSlate analyzes the wallet and 0x8026 I have performed similar actions many times in the past. Earlier projects such as Crypto Dads, Tubevy Cats, Jungle Freaks, Galaxy Eggs, Shroomz, Racoon Mafia, Fang Gang, Al Cabones and Chipto Punks are all sacrificed by Scalper. Mentha is bottled via the associated wallet and moved to 0x8026 for trading on OpenSea. The wallet currently holds 194 ETH, but its most important balance is back when it peaked at 464 ETH in February.

In February, Wallet received hundreds of Tabby Cats NFTs from Smart contract Owned by 0x8026 designed to sniper Tabby Cats from deployers. The deal won 1,240 tabby cats and sold them for $ 1.4 million worth of Ethereum. The funds were then sent to multiple wallets via the Disperse app.

Discord scammer

Users of Saudis Discord have also reported that their wallets have been leaked by scammers who were able to tag all users on the public channel.

Generally, Discord moderators limit the use of @everyone and @here to officially authorized accounts. However, some users claim that the scammers “tagged everyone” and “send a link in a regular chat and need to mint before it mint out in two steps. I said that. ” Unfortunately, some users seemed to be scammed and ran out of money from their wallets.

Again, inadequate security of discord seems to be the cause of regular NFT collectors losing their wallet contents. Users need to act swiftly to grab an NFT before the mint sells out during such a desperate free mint. As a result, some people aren’t paying too much attention to verifying URLs and smart contract permissions before signing a request.

The Saudis project maintains a high minimum price regardless of the issue, the current price is 1 ETH and the best offer is 0.97 ETH.