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U.S. authorities person indicted a antheral accused of stealing $450,000 worthy of cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), the U.S. Attorney's Office said successful a connection Monday.
The indictment, issued by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, alleges Soufiane Oulahyane, a Moroccan national, operated a look-alike website of fashionable NFT marketplace OpenSea to get unauthorized entree to integer assets and NFTs successful a cybercrime method known arsenic "spoofing."
Oulahyane faces aggregate counts of ligament fraud, the usage of an unauthorized entree instrumentality for the alleged transgression and aggravated individuality theft, which occurred successful September 2021.
"Oulahyane adapted [an] aged instrumentality for usage successful a caller and processing arena – the crypto space," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said successful a statement.
The alleged scammer utilized his fake OpenSea tract to lure a Manhattan NFT proprietor to registry with it and manus implicit the effect operation to his integer wallet, which Oulahyane past utilized to transportation cryptocurrency and a fig of NFTs to his power and merchantability them. Those NFTs included 1 from the"Bored Ape Yacht Club" bid worthy astir $92,000 astatine work time.
Oulahyane is present successful custody successful Morocco. He could look up to 47 years successful situation if recovered blameworthy of the charges.
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