People still using NBA Top Shot were the primary targets of a scam tweet posted on the account of ESPN reporter Adrian Wojnarowski, which was posted around 6:30 pm ET on Saturday night. The tweet refers to NBA Top Shot as a “popular” NFT platform, although current activity levels are a fraction of what we saw at its peak, and falsely claims that “free NFT packs are available to all customers.”
The tweet links visitors to a scam version of the NBA Top Shot website (the link points to a .org address rather than the official website’s .com URL), which may attempt to extort assets from those who allow it access to crypto wallets. About half an hour later, the official Top Shot account posted: “NBA Top Shot currently does not have free airdrops, please be sure to check the link carefully.”
The post was eventually deleted from Wojnarowski’s account nearly an hour after it was posted. Since he is known for his breaking news tweets, many NBA fans will open alerts for his posts and if they click on fraudulent links, their account information may be stolen.
Many high-profile Twitter/X accounts continue to be compromised. Wojnarowski’s recent NBA news posts were also syndicated on Threads, but the account was not used for scams.
However, the latest NBA Top Shot statistics from tracking site Cryptoslam.io only show about 8,100 unique sellers and 5,550 unique buyers in January, down from a peak of more than 399,000 buyers in March 2021, making it questionable Yes, how many buyers people leave using it to be deceived by such posts.