John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (born 3 December 1948) is an English singer, songwriter, actor and television personality. He rose to prominence during the 1970s as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath, during which he adopted the nickname "The Prince of Darkness".
Osbourne was fired from the band in 1979 due to alcohol and drug problems, but he went on to have a successful solo career, releasing eleven studio albums, the first seven of which were all awarded multi-platinum certifications in the United States. Osbourne has since reunited with Black Sabbath on several occasions.
Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘CryptoBatz’ NFT launch targeted by scammers
nme.comOzzy Osbourne‘s launch of a series of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) was reportedly targeted by scammers who made use of a fake Discord server to defraud supporters of hundreds of dollars in cryptocurrency.The project, known as ‘CryptoBatz’, is a collection of 9,666 “digital bats” – a reference to Osbourne infamously biting the head off a bat during a concert in the early ’80s.
The collection was previewed two weeks ago, with Osbourne himself describing the project as “fucking mental”, and a pre-sale for the NFTs opened in December through its official Discord server.As reported by The Verge, however, the ‘CryptoBatz’ launch was targeted by scammers after the project changed the URL of its Discord server.
The server moved from “cryptobatznft” to simply “cryptobatz”, and scammers took over the former Discord server. Because neither the CryptoBatz or Osbourne’s official Twitter accounts deleted tweets with the old URL, people reportedly continued to join what they believed to be the official CryptoBatz Discord.Users who joined the scam Discord server were asked to “verify [their] assets” in order to participate, and were directed to a phishing site that gave the scammers access to the users’ cryptocurrency wallets.
The Verge spoke to one victim named Tim Silman, who said he lost about $300 to $400 in Ethereum cryptocurrency to the scammers.
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