The World Of Solana community met their latest scammer head-on with an ingenious plan to get NFTs back. By simply raising the royalties given to the creators after a sale, the scammer sold the stolen NFTs back to members while unwillingly relinquishing 98% of the value in royalties.
How The Scam Began
Unfortunate events to place in the Discord channel hack of cross-chain gaming development studio Uncharted NFT. Scammers managed to empty 109 user wallets with 150-plus SOL tokens and 25 World of Solana NFTs. Among the NFTs stolen were three rare and treasured digital collectibles.
After the scammers swindled the community, the group decided to regain the stolen NFTs. After much consideration, the team got in touch with their development partner, who then raised royalties on the stolen NFTs to 98% from the default 5%. Thus, once our scammy friend went to cash out, he’d fork over his entire…