Hack history / 2021 / Scam
NFT collector scammed out of Bored Ape NFT: "This was my kids college. My mortgage."
Scam on Dec 23, 2021
ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
$290K
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#1,339
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
No description from DefiLlama or SlowMist; see the sources below.
Details
- Date
- Dec 23, 2021
- Kind
- Scam
- Method
- not stated
- How in
- Phishing and scams
- Target
- not stated
- Chains
- Ethereum
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "NFT collector scammed out of Bored Ape NFT: "This was my kids college. My mortgage." scam, Dec 23, 2021: $290K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht167901f9d8/ (data as of 2026-10-31).