Hack history / 2022 / Scam
Scammer steals 29 Moonbirds NFTs nominally worth about $1.5 million from a single collector
Scam on May 24, 2022
ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
$1.5M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#800
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
No description from DefiLlama or SlowMist; see the sources below.
Details
- Date
- May 24, 2022
- Kind
- Scam
- Method
- not stated
- How in
- Phishing and scams
- Target
- not stated
- Chains
- Ethereum
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Scammer steals 29 Moonbirds NFTs nominally worth about $1.5 million from a single collector scam, May 24, 2022: $1.5M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/hta8d187dc7e/ (data as of 2026-10-31).