NFT collector scammed out of Bored Ape NFT: "This was my kids college. My mortgage."
An NFT collector lost his Bored Ape NFT to a scammer impersonating the well-known NFT collector Jeffrey Huang, aka "Machi Big Brother". The real Huang did eventually buy the NFT off the scammer for 77 ETH (about $290,000) and agreed to sell it back to its original owner for that price. Although the original owner tweeted on December 30 that they were "trying to launch a project that will help me raise funds to buy back my ape that was stolen", the following day they seemed disillusioned with the whole space. They wrote, "Been trying to put on a good face since I lost my ape but I gotta be honest. This was my kids college. My mortgage. Just absolute shit that some of you out there think it's okay that I got ripped off. Fuck you if you think theft is okay because I wasn't 'smart' enough. I got news for you tool boxes. This space is going to zero and regulators are coming hard because the lay person isn't coming with the attitude of a lot of you. No one is coming to a space where they aren't sure there investments are safe. Good luck in the meta".