• Scamming sites (site to be blocked)

https://orchidtrade.io

• Scam short description:

Highly sophisticated fake NFT trading site that steals NFTs, and it deceives the victim into thinking it's a legitimate NFT trading website.

• How it works:

On Discord, a user was contacted about trading his Habbo avatar NFT for another similar NFT plus some additional ETH.

After a discussion about price, they both agreed to trade the NFT, but the supposed "buyer" insisted on making the trade over a trusted platform like OpenSea Deals (https://deals.opensea.io/deal/create), claimed that OpenSea wasn't available in his country and need to use a different platform.

The "buyer" sent the a malicious link from https://orchidtrade.io/trade/4846229

After the seller (victim) signs a message that the site requests, his NFT gets transferred to a different wallet and the trade is never completed.

The buyer (scammer) then stops replying over discord and blocks the victim. The seller never gets the agreed payment.

Additional information:

– The scam site seems to have stolen its logo from Orchid.com (Orchid protocol), its social buttons also link to the official site.
– The scam site seems to be a clone of the previously blocked Avaswap.io #150554
– The domain was registered on 12/15/2024, so this is a fairly new scam: https://who.is/whois/orchidtrade.io

• What to do:

Stick to well known and battle tested NFT trading websites like OpenSea Deals for NFT trades (NFT for NFT):
(https://deals.opensea.io/deal/create).
Or trade your NFTs at other major NFT marketplaces like https://magiceden.io and https://blur.io/

• Scam type(s):

NFT theft
Fake purchase intent
NFT laundering and obfuscation

• Targets:

Players of the virtual world Habbo Hotel and collectors of Habbo NFTs

• Source of scam messages:

Discord, specifically the official Habbo Collectibles Discord server.