Seth Green to be reunited with the BAYC NFT he lost in a phishing scam

Actor Seth Green has admitted to falling for a phishing scam, which resulted successful the nonaccomplishment of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT #8298.

From reviewing the Etherscan logs of Green’s wallet, it appears that it is simply a Metamask blistery wallet that contained hundreds of thousands of dollars worthy of NFT tokens. He besides announced the scam came from a “GutterCats clone site” but is usually “extremely careful.”

On Wednesday, May 25, Green revealed that helium had connected with the caller proprietor of the NFT, DarkWing84. Ironically it seems that DarkWing84 had been attempting to get done to Seth Green for immoderate clip earlier they connected.

The scammer takes aggregate NFTs.

The scammer besides took 2 Mutant Ape Yacht Club NFT and Doodle #7546 worthy astir 60 ETH. All 4 NFTs were offloaded connected OpenSea to unsuspecting collectors, and the profits, totaling 164 ETH, were moved done 1inch wrong 24 hours.

The purchaser of the BAYC had been buying for an NFT, having made offers connected respective different apes conscionable days before. Green’s NFT was purchased by collector DarkWing84 for 106 ETH and past transferred to a wallet named GBE_Vault.

The wallet contains 2 different BAYC NFTs, 3 Mutant Ape NFTS, 12 Otherside onshore plots, and a CryptoPunk. GBE_Vault listed Green’s BAYC NFT for 125 ETH earlier OpenSea restricted the relationship from selling the NFT connected its platform.

Commercial Rights Issues

The communicative does not extremity with a melancholy Hollywood histrion saying goodbye to an NFT collectible. The BAYC NFT was primed to prima successful Green’s caller animated amusement arsenic helium owned the commercialized rights, arsenic is the operation of Yuga Labs NFTs. However, present that Green nary longer owns the NFT, the commercialized rights person besides been transferred to the caller owner.

Green’s caller animated bid cannot beryllium completed successful its existent signifier without the NFT. Green has reached retired to the purchaser connected Twitter without a reply for respective days. The account, which links to the OpenSea collector who present owns Green’s BAYC, has been inactive since March 2021.

Even the ENS code contactsethgreenontwitter.eth has been airdropped to DarkWing84’s wallet, hoping they volition spot the code and log successful to their Twitter account.

Green stated:

“I’d alternatively conscionable @DarkWing84 to marque a deal, vs. successful court.”

Green tweeted that helium had been successful interaction with DarkWing84 aft idiosyncratic reached retired to pass him that DarkWing84 had been trying to interaction him via Discord. Now that Green and DarkWing84 person connected, it is apt that the NFT volition beryllium returned to Green to diagnostic successful his caller show.

Green, who joked astatine VeeCon that his ape had been kidnapped, possibly reunited with Fred Simian. Knowing Green’s comedic style, we could adjacent spot a DarkWing84 quality abducting the ape wrong the show’s storyline. The NFT is inactive held wrong the GBE_vault wallet astatine property time.