1/ A quick update on MontanaBlack who in actual fact seems to have >20 million followers on all kinds of platforms. The story shows how many of these scam rings operate. There is always someone in the background doing the "dirty" work functioning as the intermediary and fall guy.
2/ In MontanaBlack's case that is the below person with >150k followers on Twitter. This whole thread is courtesy to @shinraton who reported this in German. He also shared the DM's of this person who is looking for projects that he and MontanaBlack can invest in (see screenshots)
3/ They are not interested in the content on the NFT project (as exemplified yesterday where MontanaBlack promoted a project that included a Swastika), but only by money/whitelist spots. If they don't get what they want, they start to publicly call legitimate projects a "scam".
4/ They use the influence that they have as leverage to get what they want. If you don't agree they will use their influence to make sure your project doesn't succeed. When Ayroeth sold his Bored Ape, he continued to use it, until he was called out. His bio still mentions BAYC.
5/ In a private deal outside OS, he apparently scammed someone for 17ETH by not transferring his Doodle. There are many extensive threads (mainly in German) about all the fake giveaways as well, e.g.
6/ Even though the blockchain provides transparency, these people use the fact that their relationships IRL are not transparent and obvious. And so you are often deceived by a web of people that are IRL all (inter)connected and centralized.
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