A Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) owner says he has managed to avoid a potentially “dreadful day” after being asked to retrieve a banana for a photo from someone they initially believed was interviewing them for Forbes.
On Nov. 27, nonfungible token (NFT) collector “Crumz” detailed his run-in with a scammer posing as a Forbes journalist.
He reported that someone pretending to be Robert LaFanco — a real Forbes editor — contacted him by direct message from an impersonator account with the offer of an interview for a new article about BAYC.
SCAM ALERT!!
I just spent the last 2hours on Zoom with ‘@Forbes’ it was pretty sophisticated and well thought out because I’m usually on high alert but luckily I wasn’t caught. Here’s what they did. 1/8
— Crumz (@crumz10) November 26, 2023
During the interview, the scammer prompted Crumz to click a button to allow access to record the interview. Crumz said he complied with the so-called journalists despite certain red flags, including their use of a non-premium Zoom account and wanting to use a separate recorder bot to record his screen.
“I had to press a button to allow access to record,” he said before adding, “I didn’t think much of it first, but at the end, he asks me to say something that resembles my ape, and he suggests a banana.”
Crumz said he later realized this was a distraction attempt to take him away from his computer during which the attacker would take control of his computer to steal his assets.
Crumz said instead of getting the banana, he waited by his computer and sure enough, the scammers started to control his screen.
“I mute my screen and there’s no video and just waited by the screen and sure enough, they started to control my screen, I stopped them when they went on delegate.cash.”
8/8
Hopefully I’m safe now. Don’t think they can still control my computer when I turn it back on.
Please be safe out there, it could’ve been a dreadful day today
— Crumz (@crumz10) November 26, 2023
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