Mercenary Gold – $760,000
Mercenary launched this month as a medieval-themed NFT game with play-to-earn capabilities and a new cryptocurrency coin called Mercenary Gold. The scammers behind Mercenary even bought ads on Twitter with crypto news outlets like BSC News to get more people interested.
But it was all a fraud. The scam artists behind Mercenary Gold got away with at least $760,000 according to Peck Shield, a company that tracks rug pulls and other fraud in the crypto community.
The social media accounts for Mercenary have been wiped, naturally, and even archived versions on Google Cache and the Internet Archive appear to be blank. But there’s a long trail of paid promotions for the game on Twitter. And its 8-bit style looked pretty convincing as a fun attraction. Too bad it was a complete scam.
