Imagine spending $3.5 million on rare scam/” title=”Logan Paul lost millions in a fake Pokemon card scam”>Pokemon cards only to find out they’re fake? This is what happened to the American trainer, actor and boxer, Logan Paul.
In December, he said that he had purchased the First Edition Pokémon Trading Card Pool. Paul posted on Twitter that he had bought a “sealed and certified box of the first issue of Pokémon Cards.”
I just spent $3,500,000 on this sealed and validated 1st edition Pokemon Cards box ???? pic.twitter.com/rMY2bVnKV2
-Logan Paul (@LoganPaul) December 20, 2021
The possibility that Paul could have been “trapped” by a canal was first raised youtube pokemon rattle. The content producers provided a comprehensive file that breaks down the path of purchased items and how much they are worth (since they are theoretically very rare items).
On January 5, he announced on his Twitter account that he was going to Chicago “to verify the case with BBCE (Baseball Card Exchange), the company that has guaranteed its authenticity.” He wrote “keep going”.
It didn’t take long to confirm the theory: the YouTuber really fell for a scam. Paul posted a video on his channel titled “I lost $3.5 million in fake Pokémon cards”, which he explains himself.
In the video, Paul demonstrates the entire process: from buying the cards to opening the packaging in the presence of a BBCE representative (Baseball Card Exchange, specialist in sports cards), who certifies the alleged authenticity. However, when they opened the chest, Paul found GI Joe cards instead of Pokémon. Watch the video (in English).
Now, it remains to be seen if Paul will get some kind of refund from the baseball exchange, which confirmed the box’s authenticity, or from the person who sold the product.
Some say the whole story was just a marketing ploy by Paul to draw attention to his channel; if so, it seems to have worked: the video in which the scam was exposed already has more than 2.6 million views.
