Folks nonetheless utilizing NBA Prime Shot had been the first goal of a rip-off tweet posted to the account of ESPN reporter Adrian Wojnarowski on Saturday night time X at roughly 6:30 PM ET. The tweet referred to NBA Prime Shot as a “common” NFT platform, regardless of present exercise ranges being a fraction of what we noticed throughout its peak, and falsely claimed that “an NFT deck freed from cost is offered to all prospects”.
The tweet linked guests to a fraudulent model of the NBA Prime Shot web site (the hyperlink went to a .org deal with as a substitute of the official web site's .com URL) that would attempt to siphon off property from people which give him entry to crypto wallets. About half an hour later, the official Prime Shot account posted, saying, “There isn’t a free Airdrop on NBA Prime Shot at the moment. Please watch out and at all times test the hyperlinks.”
The put up was ultimately faraway from Wojnarowski's account after being reside for practically an hour. On account of his repute for tweeting breaking information, many NBA followers have alerts turned on for his posts and their account data might have been stolen in the event that they clicked on the fraudulent hyperlink.
Quite a few high-profile Twitter/X accounts proceed to be compromised. Wojnarowski's current NBA information posts had been additionally shared on Threads, however that account was not used for the rip-off.
Nonetheless, the most recent NBA Prime Shot stats from monitoring web site Cryptoslam.io present solely round eight,100 distinctive sellers and 5,550 distinctive patrons for the month of January, down from a peak of over 399,000 patrons in March 2021 , so it’s uncertain that there are very many individuals have gone to make use of it to be deceived by any such put up.