Doodles NFT Imposter Changes Guises But Fails To Avoid Detection

An imposter posing as a Doodles NFT owner is the latest example of a would-be scammer on NFT Twitter. Luckily, it appears that a vigilant Doodles holder managed to identify and call out the imposter before they could do any significant harm.

Doodles suffers the imposter issue facing many top NFT collections

Legitimate Doodles NFT holder Guy Incognito (@GuyIncognitoILV on Twitter) was the first to sound the alarm on the imposter. Incognito flagged the account, which had the Twitter handle @BraidElaine at the time. This was because Incognito noticed that a lot of Doodles holders were following the imposter account.

Basically, it looks like the imposter went through the trouble of right-click saving a Doodles NFT and minting it on OpenSea. While the imposter didn’t go as far as verifying the fake NFT as a pfp, the fake Doodles NFT attached to an account with many Doodles followers could easily mislead people.

To clarify, it doesn’t seem like they were able to scam anyone yet. With that said, there are a number of scams involving imposters pretending to own high-value NFTs. That is to say, the Doodles imposter might have been trying to sell the fake NFT to an unsuspecting buyer.

Thankfully, Twitter suspended the account of the scammer before they could continue. Though not before they changed their Twitter handle in an attempt to skirt attention.

All in all, this seems to suggest that Twitter’s NFT pfp verification has merely slowed scammers down. Not stopped them. Indeed, there are still many imposters trying to fool people with NFT pfps on Twitter. Although BAYC is the usual target for scammers, it appears that Doodles huge growth in popularity has now made the collection a target as well.