How to remove OpenSea email scam

OpenSea email scam is a phishing campaign that involves false claims about the NFT marketplace

OpenSea email scam is a malicious campaign that relies on fake letters that try to trick people into disclosing account details and credentials. This is the phishing campaign^[1] that targets account in the NFT marketplace. These emails have lures that claim users need to move their listings to avoid the expiration fees. People are tricked into revealing their login information this way.

The particular theme for these phishing spam has already swindled details of various accounts and managed to cause losses of millions for the particular OpenSea users.^[2] OpenSea email scam emails can have subjects like “Migrate Your Ethereum Listings Starting Today” and other lines with false claims, so users reveal various details that later get used to gather funds from real accounts of people to wallets run by cybercriminals.

These issues started back in February and campaigns still can occur in your email box. Those subject lines are particularly misleading and deceptive, so more people fall for the trick and reveal needed details from criminals. Try to avoid any interaction with emails from questionable sources and even those with legitimate and relevant themes or mentions of the real companies and platforms.

The email reads:

Subject: Migrate Your Ethereum Listings Starting Today

OpenSea | Community Update

Hi there,

You can now migrate your Ethereum listings to the new smart contract today (gas free).

[Get Started]

You have until 2 pm ET on Friday, February 25 to migrate your listings. After that time, any listings you haven't migrated will expire. All existing offers will also expire at that time.

If you don't migrate your listings by February 25, you will still be able to re-list your expired listings after that period without incurring any additional fees (including gas fees).

For more on why we're upgrading to a contract and how to get help migrating your listings, visit our help center.

Thank you,
The OpenSea Team

More details about the phishing email scam

OpenSea email scam aims to extract user account credentials and steal NFTs, and funds stored on the marketplace accounts, The victim can understand what happens only after the losses. Any suspected victims are recommended to change the passwords of all possibly exposed accounts. Experts^[3] note that these scams go around often.

Name	OpenSea email scam
Type	Phishing scam campaign, fraud
Claims	Users must migrate their listings to avoid additional fees due to expiration. The email states that this is the official notification from OpenSea
Issues	The email leads to unauthorized purchases and fund transactions, illegal access to the computer, and financial losses
Distribution	The email appears in boxes for users and randomly chosen inboxes due to the deceptive pop-ups, and other phishing methods. Breaches can reveal details like this later used in scam campaigns
Danger	The successful campaign ends with financial losses or hacked accounts
Removal	Threats need to be removed with anti-malware apps and these emails should be ignored to avoid issues with security
Possible system fix	Try running the Fortect Intego so the system issues get fixed

OpenSea email scam letters can include various details about the platform and similar services to keep the legitimate image. These letters encourage people to migrate their Ethereum listings to a new smart contract because these listings can be expired and people might lose them or get huge fees for the expiration.

These platforms and cryptocurrency is popular and these facts encouraged scammers to alter their methods to these popular things that can lure people. OpenSea emails in this scam are in no way related to the marketplace or any legitimate services involving NFTs or cryptocurrency.

These campaigns aim to gather user account credentials and steal funds, and NFTs stored on that accounts, so these are financial criminals. Revealing your user account credentials can lead to additional hacking and losses, so you should ignore any suspicious emails and make sure to not click on anything suspicious.

If you open OpenSea email scam message or another questionable email, make sure to run SpyHunter Combo Cleaner or Malwarebytes Malwarebytes on the machine to ensure that any threats that managed to get dropped on the system get detected and removed. These campaigns get advanced and more dangerous.

Types of common email scam campaigns

OpenSea email scam is a phishing email campaign that relies on deceptive emails that should trick users into giving away their sensitive or private details. These attacks send emails with fake logos or information that imitates the legitimate company or services. These emails create urgency for the interaction and lead victims to potential risk.

Such messages lead to clicking on a link and entering details in survey or login forms by displaying identical or legitimate-looking content, so people believe that the transaction is legitimate. These emails can also have various attachments of files with malicious files and release malware to the machine besides phishing people. These are malicious emails.

Potential victims can also be lured into interaction with similar campaigns to OpenSea emails. That is mostly done with questionable materials or even sextortion email help, clickbait contents, themes related to celebrities, giveaways, prizes, and lotteries. There are various methods by that criminals aim to get a profit.

Can there be malware on the machine?

OpenSea email scam is not a virus related to particular potentially unwanted programs or malware. However, these emails can drop various files that lead to issues with the security of the machine. Your device might get infected if you click on a link or download a file from the spam email.

Such infections can be silent or just affect the browsing experience. There are various threats using emails to spread around, so you should scan the machine fully with anti-malware tools to check the security state of the machine. It helps to clean the threats and potentially unwanted or dangerous files.

Social engineering tactics and fraud issues stem from these OpenSea email scam messages, but there are malicious programs that can find their way on your machine and alter settings, damaging the processes or programs. The system should be checked more frequently and these infiltrations can be avoided this way. You find the guide below that shows how to clear browsers and the machine.

Uninstall from Windows

Uninstall from Windows 10/8:

Type Control Panel into the Windows search box and open the result.
Under Programs, select Uninstall a program.

Uninstall from Windows 7/XP:

Click on Windows Start > Control Panel (Windows XP users should click on Add/Remove Programs).
In Control Panel, select Programs > Uninstall a program.

Remove the unwanted program:

In the Programs and Features window, look for any recently installed suspicious entries, select them, and click Uninstall.
If User Account Control appears, click Yes to confirm, then complete the removal.

Delete from macOS

Remove the unwanted application:

From the menu bar, select Go > Applications.
In the Applications folder, look for any suspicious entries, then drag them to Trash (or right-click and pick Move to Trash).

Delete leftover files and folders:

Select Go > Go to Folder.
Enter /Library/Application Support and remove any suspicious folders related to the unwanted program.
Repeat the same check in the /Library/LaunchAgents and /Library/LaunchDaemons folders, deleting any suspicious entries.
Finally, empty the Trash to permanently remove the leftovers.

Remove from Microsoft Edge

Delete unwanted extensions from MS Edge:

Select Menu (three horizontal dots at the top-right of the browser window) and pick Extensions.
From the list, pick the extension and click on the Gear icon.
Click Remove.

Clear cookies and other browser data:

Click on the Menu (three horizontal dots at the top-right of the browser window) and select Settings > Privacy, search, and services..
Under Clear browsing data, pick Choose what to clear.
Select Cookies and other site data and Cached images and files. (apart from passwords, although you might want to include Media licenses as well, if applicable) and click on Clear.

Restore new tab and homepage settings:

Click the menu icon and choose Settings.
Then find On startup section.
Click Remove next to any suspicious startup page.

Reset MS Edge if the above steps did not work:

Press on Ctrl + Shift + Esc to open Task Manager.
Click on More details arrow at the bottom of the window.
Select Details tab.
Now scroll down and locate every entry with Microsoft Edge name in it. Right-click on each of them and select End Task to stop MS Edge from running.

Instructions for Chromium-based Edge

Delete extensions from MS Edge (Chromium):

Open Edge and click select Settings > Extensions.
Delete unwanted extensions by clicking Remove.

Clear cache and site data:

Click on Menu and go to Settings.
Select Privacy, search and services.
Under Clear browsing data, pick Choose what to clear.
Under Time range, pick All time.
Select Clear now.

Reset Chromium-based MS Edge:

Click on Menu and select Settings.
On the left side, pick Reset settings.
Select Restore settings to their default values.
Confirm with Reset.
This will disable extensions and reset startup pages but will not delete bookmarks, saved passwords, or browsing history.

Remove from Mozilla Firefox (FF)

Remove dangerous extensions:

Open Mozilla Firefox browser and click on the Menu (three horizontal lines at the top-right of the window).
Select Add-ons.
In here, select the unwanted extension and click Remove.

Reset the homepage:

Click three horizontal lines at the top right corner to open the menu.
Choose Settings.
Under Home, set your preferred homepage and new tab settings.

Clear cookies and site data:

Click Menu and pick Settings.
Go to Privacy & Security section.
Scroll down to locate Cookies and Site Data.
Click on Clear Data...
Select Cookies and Site Data and Temporary cached files and pages, then click Clear.

Reset Mozilla Firefox

If clearing the browser as explained above did not help, reset Mozilla Firefox:

Open Mozilla Firefox browser and click the Menu.
Go to Help and then choose Troubleshooting Information.
Under Give Firefox a tune up section, click on Refresh Firefox...
Once the pop-up shows up, confirm the action by pressing on Refresh Firefox.

Remove from Google Chrome

Delete malicious extensions from Google Chrome:

Open Google Chrome, click on the Menu (three vertical dots at the top-right corner) and select More tools > Extensions.
In the newly opened window, you will see all the installed extensions. Uninstall all suspicious extensions related to the unwanted program by clicking Remove.

Clear cache and web data from Chrome:

Click on Menu and pick Settings.
Under Privacy and security, select Clear browsing data.
Select Browsing history, Cookies and other site data, as well as Cached images and files.
Click Clear data.

Change your homepage:

Click menu and choose Settings.
Look for a suspicious site in the On startup section.
Click on Open a specific or set of pages and click on three dots to find the Remove option.

Reset Google Chrome:

If the previous methods did not help you, reset Google Chrome to eliminate all the unwanted components:

Click on Menu and select Settings.
In the Settings, scroll down and click Advanced.
Scroll down and locate Reset and clean up section.
Now click Restore settings to their original defaults.
Confirm with Reset settings.

Delete from Safari

Remove dangerous extensions:

Open Safari, click Safari in the menu at the top-left of the screen, and select Preferences.
Go to the Extensions tab, look for any suspicious entries, and click Uninstall to remove them.

Clear history and website data:

Click Safari in the menu and pick Clear History.
Set Clear to all history and confirm with Clear History.

Reset Safari:

Click Safari in the menu and select Preferences > Advanced.
Enable Show Develop menu in menu bar.
From the menu bar, click Develop and select Empty Caches.