QUADRIGA INITIATIVE
CRYPTO WATCHDOG & FRAUD RECOVERY PLATFORM
A COMMUNITY-BASED, NOT-FOR-PROFIT
UNKNOWN
MAY 2022
GLOBAL
SHAMANZS
DESCRIPTION OF EVENTS
"Shamanzs NFT was designed by Barcelona-based award-winning design studio Brosmind, which is led by brothers Juan and Alejandro." "Shamanzs is an original collection of 9898 programmatically and randomly generated NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain. Hundreds of traits have been drawn by hand, to create a vast array of high quality and unique loving characters." "Unique art, strong doxxed team, and values based on the GVO concept is what Shamanzs is all about." "The founding team share love for art, tech, music and the digital world. Frenzs forever, with common interests and ambitions, sharing a unique set of skills and connections, are finally joining forces to moon Shamanzs, turning it into a long lasting brand."
"The wisest Monkzs, Sadhuzs, Godzs and Guruzs on spiritual land, no matter which ancient religion they belong to, are secretly joining forces to create a powerful unified legion. Their goal is to spread love and good vibezs to erase bad energies from mother Earth for once. A new army of Shamanzs is secretly emerging, and the largest community of followerzs ever seen, is about to enlighten the whole metaverse with limitless positive energy." "Leaders from different tribes, beliefs, religions, backgrounds and natures are fusing in an evolved and upgraded version; self-proclaimed as SHAMANZS."
"Shamanzs plans on becoming the "Good Vibes Only" (GVO) brand as their directive line around the project. Holders of Shamanzs NFTs will be rewarded with exclusive access to future art that the artists and team will continue building. The utility will include airdrops, merch gifts, discounts to the online shop, and access to future IRL and digital events."
"Official OS link is no[w] live." "Fair Dutch Auction sold out under 3 min. Phase 2 (WL) starting at 10PM (EST). Peace & Love."
"Hi ShamaGang, We would like to share with everyone some important information and evidence of what happened during/after the FDA sold out." "As you all know, we had our name changed on OS since it appeared to be misleading and that resulted into something unfortunate, where a scammer took advantage of this creating a false collection under the same name." "With the links not being updated, this led a small portion of our amazing community that we care about to the scammers OS ultimately resulting in them being taken advantage of."
"The collection was auto listed on Open Sea under shamanzs-v3. We quickly changed it to shamanzs-official, but a scammer parked a fake collection at shamanzs-v3." "The issue with the fake account was fixed quickly, but some people panicked and began selling thinking it was a fake collection."
"With that being said, we have a plan that's soon to be implemented." "The team is working hard to figure out the next steps. We’ll let you know more soon. For now, know that the Shamanzs collection and project is solid, and our goal is to make it a long lasting one."
"WL mint is currently suspended, we will open it again, we will do a refund, that is claimable for all the WL members, of .044 ETH per nft, that makes the mint to .1 ETH."
"We will be updating how we progress on our mission to compensate everyone that was affected post Fair Dutch Auction sold out on OS. The first step is to build a refund tool that will be available on our website, which is currently under development."
"We appreciate your patience, The dev team has been working hard, and a tool is currently being tested. We expect to have it available on our website really soon. To make things right, each wallet that minted during FDA will be able to claim a refund of 0.35 ETH per mint."
""Claim your refund tool" is now live for the next 24h." "If you minted during FDA, you can now claim your refund." "Click the green top right button of the screen, and connect the same wallet you used to mint with. [T]hanks for your patience."
"We will be refunding .35 ETH to all those who minted at 0.5 ETH, make the mint price to .15 ETH, based on floor price, we don't want anyone to lose money." "We will be also refunding all those who bought from the fake collection, we took a snapshot of the wallets already(if you buy now you won't be refunded)."
"The system will automatically refund based on total number of mints per wallet: 1 NFT minted = 0.35 ETH, 2 NFT minted = 0.70 ETH, 3 NFT minted = 1.05 ETH. Feel free to share, in case you now someone who minted on FDA." "After [24 hours], refunds won't be available."
"Very happy to hear that claim your refund experience is going smoothly. Now it’s time to build up, again. Get ready." "Shamanzs feeling stronger, united and unbeatable. Motivation level ath. Relaunch plan being built up (to be revealed soon). Community = army." "We're only looking up, and that means not even the moon is high enough fo the ShamaGang now!"
Shamanzs is a set of collectible NFT characters designed by a known team in Barcelona. The NFTs came to be listed on the widely used OpenSea marketplace, however the team changed the URL of the listing near the launch itself. A number of references pointed their community to the old link, and as a result many members were directed there. A scammer was then able to set up a fake listing at the old link, which directed members to buy different and non-official NFTs.
The Shamanzs team came up with a plan to provide refunds and discounted NFTs to those affected through a minting website. However, they only gave affected users 24 hours (plus 1 hour of advanced notice prior to the launch) in which to claim their refunds. While the process was reported to have proceeded smoothly, there was at least one user reporting issues claiming the refund. Since that time, the original tweets related to the refund process and the issue have been removed from Twitter, while Shamanzs account itself is still actively posting to promote new NFT collections.
HOW COULD THIS HAVE BEEN PREVENTED?
Special care needs to be taken for launch links on projects. These need to be decided ahead of time and not changed. OpenSea should not allow a link to be reassigned quickly to another project.
It does not seem that users can be to blame here, since they accessed the link through an officially listed address. Were they to do any sort of research to the links, they would have missed the minting, as it sold out in 3 minutes.
Providing 24 hours for refund claiming is not likely to be sufficient, especially given the prevalence of phishing attacks in the NFT space. Users should be provided adequate time to become up to date and ensure the refund is legitimate.
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