According to Cointelegraph, the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office has successfully shut down 40 fraudulent non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace websites following a scam that defrauded an 85-year-old artist of $135,000. The artist was deceived by an individual posing as an art dealer on LinkedIn, who persuaded him to mint his artwork on a counterfeit NFT marketplace designed to mimic the New York-based OpenSea platform.