Account tied to rapper Nelly compromised, used for crypto phishing scam
The X account associated with American rapper Nelly has allegedly been hacked. According to blockchain investigator ZachXBT, the attacker used the musician’s profile to launch social engineering attacks and lure people to a crypto-phishing site. The attacker also changed Nelly’s profile, posing as a security analyst for Scam Sniffer, a web security solution. “On-chain security analyst. Helping you catch scammers @realscamsniffer.” Nelly’s account bio ZachXBT cited two messages sent by the scammer to people in which he tried to claim that they were investigating the compromise of wallet confirmation on recipient addresses. This was also an attempt to steal funds by tricking users into signing malicious transactions. Scam Sniffer on X confirmed the ZachXBT report: @NellioETH is compromise d and pretending to be a member of ScamSniffer. they are trying to message people in an attempt to social engineer them into using a phishing site. please always ma...