Layer 1 blockchain Aptos has gained some traction since its controversial start, however now not the entire chain’s ardour has advance from legitimate avid gamers.

On Monday, several customers reported that an NFT mission called Aptos Chimps sucked up over 5,000 APT (about $40,000) tokens in a wallet drain scam.

Aptos Chimps sent round a spurious hyperlink to a sound NFT marketplace, Topaz Market, then promised a free mint for NFTs, to trap unsuspecting customers into connecting their wallets. When somebody linked their wallet to the dodgy predicament, the drainer wallet pilfered all of their APT tokens.

The URL for the distinctive Topaz Market webpage is “topaz.so”, whereas the scammers’ erroneous hyperlink leads customers to “topaz.pw.”

Aptos workforce internet page D3gens notified the workforce of the scam, initially build apart claiming that the scammers stole over $12 million however later updating the amount drained to between 4,000-5,000 tokens.

The scammers made it advanced for sleuths to pinpoint the different of tokens they drained by sending the stolen funds to just a few diversified addresses. On Oct. 30, one user claimed that the drainer wallet had a steadiness of 15,000 APT tokens.

Blockchain marketing story CEN tweeted that the dodgy mission continues to send scammy hyperlinks to other folks. The Aptos Chimps Twitter story had 13,400 followers at the time of writing.