God Z Ape ($68,000)
When God Z Ape launched, it promised to offer NFT “collectibles” that would go up in value. But that was a lie.
God Z Ape was a rip-off collection piggybacking off the most popular NFT project of all time, the Bored Ape Yacht Club. Plenty of people recognized it was a scam early on, called it out, and were banned from the project’s Discord, according to multiple Twitter users.
The scammers behind God Z Ape were able to extract about 20 ether, worth about $68,000 in real money. The account was tied to another rugpull called WWW Apes, according to Peck Shield, though it’s not clear how much the scammers cleared on that project. The Twitter accounts for both scams are gone for good, of course.
