Bored Ape Thefts on Fake OpenSea Site Lead to Charges
US prosecutors charged a Moroccan man with stealing $450,000 in cryptocurrency and nonfungible tokens, including two Bored Apes, by creating a fake replica of the OpenSea digital marketplace in 2021.Soufiane Oulahyane, 25, set up the website to trick victims into revealing the seed phrase — a series of random words that open a crypto wallet — to gain access to actual accounts on OpenSea, the largest marketplace for NFTs, the Department of Justice said Monday. The practice is known as “spoofing,” which is “one of the…