Hack history / 2021 / Scam
Scammers posing as OpenSea support staff steal $480,000 from NFT collector Jeff Nicholas
Scam on Aug 24, 2021
ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
$480K
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#1,169
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
No description from DefiLlama or SlowMist; see the sources below.
Details
- Date
- Aug 24, 2021
- Kind
- Scam
- Method
- not stated
- How in
- Phishing and scams
- Target
- not stated
- Chains
- not stated
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Scammers posing as OpenSea support staff steal $480,000 from NFT collector Jeff Nicholas scam, Aug 24, 2021: $480K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/hta9fc123a94/ (data as of 2026-10-31).