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DOJ Charges Moroccan Man With Stealing $450K in OpenSea Spoofing Scam
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U.S. authorities have indicted a man accused of stealing $450,000 worth of cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement 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 popular NFT marketplace OpenSea to obtain unauthorized access to digital assets and NFTs in a cybercrime technique known as "spoofing."
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Oulahyane faces multiple counts of wire fraud, the use of an unauthorized access device for the alleged crime and aggravated identity theft, which occurred in September 2021.
"Oulahyane adapted [an] old tool for use in a new and developing arena – the crypto space," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement.
The alleged scammer used his fake OpenSea site to lure a Manhattan NFT owner to register with it and hand over the seed phrase to his digital wallet, which Oulahyane then used to transfer cryptocurrency and a number of NFTs to his control and sell them. Those NFTs included one from the "Bored Ape Yacht Club" series worth roughly $92,000 at publication time.
Oulahyane is now in custody in Morocco. He could face up to 47 years in prison if found guilty of the charges.
Read more: This Is How Scammers Can Drain Your Crypto Wallet
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