Miss Universe NFT Hack
What happened
The official Miss Universe NFT project that boasted a roadmap with monthly AMAs, charity donations and signed prints, rugpulled its holders within 3 days after inception and incurred losses of approx. $360k to its holders.
The Miss Universe NFT project was in fact endorsed by Paula Shugart, the president of The Miss Universe Organization as well as by Steve Harvey the famous American television host and other Miss Universe models. The project promised its holders an array of off-chain benefits such as exclusive events, signed prints and virtual AMAs with a strategic orientation towards women's empowerment.
Within the next day after the minting of the project took down its official Instagram account.
Moderators on discord still encouraged members to buy more NFTs. Within 3 days all social media channels were deleted.
The transactions that evolved on-chain appear to be undertaken by professionals since transfers and cash-outs between more than 20 wallets have been detected.
Miss Universe NFT token address: https://etherscan.io/token/0xa048c212…512c5c
Token creator addresses (Scammer):
1) https://etherscan.io/address/0x8831569a…f95a86
Some of the intermediary wallet address:
Sample of cash out transactions:
1)https://etherscan.io/tx/0xe475a577…35ee52
2)https://etherscan.io/tx/0x34427861…da96c8
Case & protocol details
Evidence & learning
Sources and on-chain records
- report Report cointelegraph.com
- report Report twitter.com
- report Report drive.google.com
- analysis Web Archive web.archive.org
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