Hack history / 2024 / Scam
85-year-old painter loses life savings to NFT art dealer scam
Scam on Dec 6, 2024
ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
$135K
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#1,612
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
No description from DefiLlama or SlowMist; see the sources below.
Details
- Date
- Dec 6, 2024
- Kind
- Scam
- Method
- not stated
- How in
- Phishing and scams
- Target
- not stated
- Chains
- not stated
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "85-year-old painter loses life savings to NFT art dealer scam scam, Dec 6, 2024: $135K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht4e63ef41f7/ (data as of 2026-10-31).