Doodle NFT 5396 Phishing Theft BTCRegister

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Rojak Project Phishing Website

Twitter user BTCRegister reported that their Doodle NFT was accidentally left in a hot wallet. They were tricked into visiting a website purporting to be for the Rojak Project, which offered a free mint. Instead of minting an NFT, the website drained their wallet of the Doodle NFT. They got assistance from friends to revoke all further access to their wallet and ultimately claim to have reported the theft to the FBI.

This is a global/international case not involving a specific country.

About None

"The Rotak Project NFT" "Hand crafted collection inspired by community, art and imagination... First 160 able to FREE MINT!"

"this is the start of something life-changing tag you’re squad… we’ll be in touch"

"our whitelist phase has sold out… now its the publics turn, who will join us? free mint here" "rt and like to unlock [redacted]… we are waiting"

"I own 2 Ledgers and have 90% of my assets on them. I have a few hot wallets I use and one of them happened to hold my only @doodles and PFP (I know, I know, I effed up)."

"Rojak had nice art and a compelling story. Mint in the first 1500 and its free, you know the story. It felt weird, and if I wasn't on my run, I probably would still own my @doodles #5396. I clicked the connect button and then pressed mint. I had done this a million times"

"It felt so weird that I immediately connected another burner wallet and something strange happened. In harsh RED letters, I learned that I was not eligible. That instant I knew i was [in trouble]. I checked etherscan and my @doodles was gone."

"The first thing I did was run down stairs and transfer out any $ETH. With no $ETH you cant do much (unless the asshole transfers some in). I spent 30 mins looking at my etherscan and asking for help from friends @proof_xyz and @CyberTurtlesNFT I was fragile, out 30k"

"I wanted to you you know that they contract I "Set Approval for ALL" in my thread also authorized items that I did not own (I did in the past). You have to Revoke them - and click - "include zero balances"."

"I decided to do something about it. Support our community in creating a theft protocol."

"I went to bed with pain and woke up with a solution that I believe could prevent a lot of fraud and theft in the NFT space."

"In near real time, VALIDDAO identifies scams and adds affected tokens to the database. The goal would be to prevent the sale/mint/allow all function at the time of the operations. VALIDDAO is a NFT supported by community members and other organizations that benefit from the removal of bad actors."

This is a global/international case not involving a specific country.

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What Happened

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Key Event Timeline - Doodle NFT 5396 Phishing Theft BTCRegister

Date	Event	Description
January 9th, 2022 9:30:00 AM MST	Rojak Squad Launch	The Rojak Squad posts on Twitter to thank the community for their participation in minting the project.
April 9th, 2022 8:07:00 AM MDT	Scam Collection on Arky	"Another scam using TRS arts...this time they even use my name..." "Pls help me report this."
May 21st, 2022 11:43:00 PM MDT	Twitter Account Warning	"If u're reading this, and if u love ur money...pls do not engage with this fake TRS account. We're the real one, and for now we're on hiatus due to some 'busyness'. Will make a comeback for sure soon! Beware of scammers."
May 22nd, 2022 9:04:29 AM MDT	Blockchain Transaction	Found a blockchain transaction which is believed to be the theft.
May 22nd, 2022 11:36:00 AM MDT	Summary Post	BTCRegister posts a summary tweet with a timeline of everything which happened leading up to the theft and what actions they took.
May 22nd, 2022 11:48:34 AM MDT	NFT Resold	The Doodle NFT 5396 is resold for 12.698 ETH.
May 23rd, 2022 8:52:10 AM MDT	ValidNFT Medium Post	BTCRegister creates a new post on Medium about their NFT theft and ideas for a new protection protocol.
May 24th, 2022 2:59:00 PM MDT	Starting Theft Protocol	BTCRegister posts a response to Seth Green about their lost Doodle NFT and requests others to support the theft protocol they are creating.

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Total Amount Lost

The total amount lost has been estimated at $26,000 USD.

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Ultimate Outcome

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Total Amount Recovered

There do not appear to have been any funds recovered in this case.

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Ongoing Developments

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Individual Prevention Policies

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Regulatory Prevention Policies

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