NFT monkeys are among the most popular digital collectibles. The person with the most monkeys regularly pulls the wool over the eyes of crypto traders. But now he has fallen for his own trick.
What kind of project is this? Bored and Mutant Apes are among the best-known NFT projects and are considered a showcase project among NFT speculators. Users invest in small images of monkeys that are secured via the blockchain.
Franklinisbored is one of the most well-known collectors of these quirky monkeys. However, he has now lost around €150,000 due to a silly action. He has fallen for his own trick, with which he usually mocks Twitter bots.
Collector misleads crypto traders and falls for his own trick
How does the collector annoy the traders? Franklinisbored comes up with strange Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domains. Every user can register such an ENS domain and can thereby directly transfer money to a trader. Instead of a complicated address, you just have to remember a name.
Franklinisbored then places an absurdly high bid for this domain. This in turn calls Twitter bots to the scene, who then tweet the domain name along with the bid to their followers. The collector apparently finds this amusing.
What went wrong now? Franklinisbored asked his readers on Twitter which domain he should place a fake bid on next. He then generated an address and placed a bid of 100 ETH. That’s around €150,000. To his surprise, another person came along and offered him 1.9 ETH (about €2600). Franklinisbored accepted the offer.
It became annoying only after the new owner of the domain accepted Franklinisbored’s humorous offer – and Franklinisbored foolishly forgot to cancel his offer, which was still active. The new buyer accepted the offer and sold the NFT back to him, pocketing 98 ETH. All this happened within 15 minutes.
The NFT collector then sent the buyer the 1.9 ETH along with an NFT in which he requested a refund of his 100 ETH. However, he did not get his money back. Instead, he received an NFT from the “Franklin ENS Nutz” collection with the name “No, thanks for the money.”
How does the unfortunate react? He took the whole action pretty calmly. He writes on Twitter: “This will be the joke and sleight of hand of the century. I deserve all the jokes and the criticism.”
What do you think? Did the collector deserve this loss after his actions? He is also not the only person who has lost a lot of money. In another game, hackers stole half a billion euros.
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