A YouTuber has been scammed into opening what was supposed to be a rare pack of Magic: The Gathering cards but which was anything but.
Buying and selling trading cards can be a very costly – or lucrative – hobby, exemplified by the recent auction of the world’s rarest Pokémon card, which had an asking price of £400,000.
Another popular trading card game, Magic: The Gathering, also has a range of very sought-after rarities, if they’re in good condition. Last year Post Malone bought one card that was valued at a staggering £1.5 million.
It’s big business, but hardcore fans do run the risk of running into scammers, who sell altered pack with worthless cards, which is what happened to Twitch streamer and YouTuber PayMoneyWubby.
The streamer was opening a Magic: The Gathering Beta Starter Deck live on stream, and paused before revealing the last two cards in the pack which should have been rare ones.
Unfortunately, the cards were worthless – a Raise Dead and a Forest card – leaving PayMoneyWubby speechless, as the packs sell for £37,500 on Cardtrader.
Someone in the chat asked to see the plastic seal that was around the pack of cards, which they agreed looked different and looser to other packs, with a suspicious dent in the plastic.
PayMoneyWubby then screamed, ‘Oh my God, it was re-packed,’ and, ‘Scam pack refund!’
He didn’t mention how much he paid for the pack, or from where, but said, ‘I don’t know what happened here, but I can tell you it ain’t right. We just proved it’s fake.’
Whether PayMoneyWubby can get a refund is unclear but he certainly won’t get his money back by selling the Raise Dead card, which is worth less than 2p.
Not only do you need a sizeable wallet to deal in the most popular trading cards, you also need the expertise to know what a scam looks like and streamers seem to fall for scams like this all the time.
However, it’ll probably never get worse than when Logan Paul spent £2.5 million on what was supposed to be rare 1st Edition Base Sets for the Pokémon Trading Card Game, but which turned out to be fakes.
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