Entrepreneur Calvin Becerra was outwitted by scammers in all 3 NFT Bored Apes on Discord

Calvin Becerra, owner of 3 iconic NFT Bored Apes, lost it all to social media scammers Discord in a way that many consider dumb to give up engineering.

“The guys posing as buyers on Discord helped me fix what I thought was happening. They walked me through the language settings in my MetaMask, asked me to choose an option, and did everything, ”Becerra said. tell about his sad story on October 31st.

He said the 3 NFT monkeys that make up the Bored Ape Yacht Club collection are valued at nearly $ 1 million in total. Becerra bought one of them just 2 weeks ago for 65 ETH (about $ 300,000 at current market prices). In total, he reportedly spent 185 ETH ($ 854,000) on all 3 file Transactions on OpenSea.

He insists he didn’t send a seed phrase or anything to scammers. He simply authorized the broadcast and gave the online criminals complete control of the artwork through a Discord chat.

Some commentators suppose i think What happened to him cannot be viewed as a hack, but as betrayed.

Social media platforms aren’t always full of evils, but they are often a haven for scammers looking to make easy money even by posing as legitimate administrators on the internet. Becerra fell for this “old as the earth” trick and his innocence was heavily criticized in the Twitter comments.

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Bored Ape Owner Pleads: “Please, Let’s Make a Deal”

Becerra didn’t stop there and continued to make fun of them in a desperate attempt to get their expensive monkeys back. He wrote a note to thieves, begging: “Please, let’s make a deal. Nothing less than, “The businessman hopes threats that the monkey will be blacklisted or stolen works of art will change the minds of the bad guys.

The thieves ignored his requests and instead responded by selling the “loot”. However, Becerra eventually enlisted the help of the NFT community.

“If you can help me remove bids from these stolen monkeys and boycott the thief’s orders, it could lead them to lower their prices so that I can at least get the PFP monkey (profile picture) at a bargain price. I don’t know what to do now. “

The collector even called the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to report the theft.

“Police, you stole my NFT monkey? Do you think the FBI will help if you give people the information in the safe as an invitation to come and get it? ”Scoffed a Twitter user.

“Hello police. Someone hacked my internet and stole my monkey. No, not the monkeys themselves – they are worthless – but the title deed that proves they are my monkey. Certificates are very valuable, ”said another sarcastically.

Finally some help. The NFT marketplaces OpenSea, Rarible and NFT Trader have banned the sale of stolen monkeys on their platforms. On November 3rd, Bacerra got one of her monkeys back and Thanks very much “Platforms that helped me find it.”

security breach

The theft exposed serious security vulnerabilities in the NFT industry, and not everyone enjoyed it.

“So platforms have proven that they are able and willing to invalidate tokens and revoke access. NFT is not the solution for intervention cases? If platforms can disrupt blockchain access, what makes them different? ”Asked a Twitter user.

Becerra has one last word for digitized digital art lovers and collectors. He warned:

“Make sure the Discord account name matches the correct moderator name and Discord ID number. Do not reply to direct messages or click links. They took over $ 1 million worth of NFTs from me. “

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