Last month, crypto user and NFT artist Princess Hypio told her followers she lost $170,000 in crypto and non-fungible tokens after a scammer convinced her to play a game with them on Steam.
While she was “mindlessly” playing with the scammer, they were secretly stealing her funds and hacking her Discord. The same tactic was used on three of her other friends, she data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://x.com/princesshypio/status/1958654566255460697″ rel=”noopener nofollow” target=”_blank” title=”null”>wrote in a post on Aug. 21 on X.
It turns out, the tactic has been around for a while and is known by some as the “try my game” scam, which users have been
