Hello HODLers,
Well, even if I am usually really careful, sometimes as a human being I can let my guard down.
This is what happened to ma few days ago. I got scammed for a small amount of money so I am okay but I still felt disturbed and quite ashamed to have felt for this.
The story
Logging into one of my mobile dapp to check my BSC projects, I noticed Metamon was featured.
Metamon is a real project on the Binance Smart Chain which basically copied Axie Infinity.
I checked the market cap and the company/team behind called Radio Caca. They have their own token $RACA which has been performing well since the game went into beta.
The mistake...
As I started to watch videos and thinking the game was quite cool, I just thought let's invest a few $$$ to start and see how I like it.
I went on twitter to get some information and clicked on this Twitter Bio.
This is NOT the official twitter account of Radio Caca
After digging a bit more I decided to click on the PancakeSwap link to buy some in game currency.
Then I was taken to the real pancakeswap website:
I wanted to play Metamon so I did not pay attention to this metamon token. Which does not exist.
I bought 40$ worth of this token in one transaction (the other I bought $RACA with other funds fortunately).
Long story short: this token does not exist and once you buy it, I cannot actually sell it back for whatever BNB I put in.
Always double check the twitter accounts, I thought this one was leggit but it was a scam which is still live on twitter. I reported it twice but I guess more people need to.
Also, I decided not to invest in this game once I realized to play I basically needed to buy a metamon and the cheapest were 5-7k$ ! Seriously? 5k to play a browser game? You must be kidding me...
Stay safe out there, scammers are everywhere.