Someone lost millions trying to claim a $2K Crypto airdrop. YES, THAT HAPPENED.
Scammers made off with $8 million in bitcoin and ether after employing a phishing scheme. The scam centered on Uniswap, a decentralized crypto exchange where people trade altcoins like Shiba Inu and avalanche.
The scammers promised a free airdrop of 400 Uniswap tokens, worth around $2,000. A few traders took the bait, connecting their wallets to a dodgy website and two victims sustained huge losses.
Over $6.5 million was drained from one wallet, blockchain analytics firm PeckShield told CNET. Scammers took 2,444 ether ($2.46 million) and 201 bitcoin ($3.96 million) from that wallet.
The other wallet lost 834 ether ($903,000) and 39 bitcoin ($774,000). PeckShield told CNET that there are four more wallets infected by the phishing attack, but that these have yet to be drained.
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