A scammer recreated the Twitter account for SkyVerse, a much-anticipated NFT land project due to launch in “mid-April”. More than 250 NFT collectors eager to get in on a mint that has only vaguely pointed to a date have fallen prey to a scammer convincing them that not only has the project started minting, but they’re rapidly selling out. The scammer implemented a “counter” on the webpage that appears to show the project quickly selling out in real-time, apparently hoping to increase the FOMO that might encourage someone to hastily connect their wallet. However, a glance at the website source shows the counter is just instantiated to a fixed value, and then increments arbitrarily to show the counter approaching the maximum number of NFTs that will be sold. So far, the website has drawn 50 ETH ($150,000) from would-be collectors trying to mint NFTs for 0.1 ETH ($300) each.

Total loss estimated at $153,050.