A Bored Ape Yacht Club holder appears to have lost three NFTs valued at a total of 54.8505 ETH ($164,400) to a malicious actor. 

As first noted by the crypto investigator ZachXBT, the Bored Ape holder purported lost the three rare NFTs to a phishing attack. The blockchain explorer Etherscan also notes that the wallet associated with the BAYC NFT transactions has been used in previous phishing scams. It remains unclear how exactly this phishing attack occurred. 

The Bored Ape NFTs phished were BAYC #7531, BAYC #6736 and BAYC #2100. They're valued at 21 ETH ($62,960), 15.8505 WETH ($47,500) and 18 ETH ($54,000), respectively, according to the NFT marketplace OpenSea. 

BAYC #7531 contains the trait of white fur, which only 4% of the total 10,000 NFTs have. BAYC #6736 has …