Earlier this month Seth Green was scammed out of four NFTs, including a $200,000 Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT. There's more at stake than just Green's money. That Bored Ape was meant to star in an upcoming TV show Green is developing, but because IP rights to the cartoon ape are contingent on owning the nft, Non-fungible token, non fungible token there's open question as to whether Green can go ahead with the sitcom.

"I bought an ape in July of 2021 and have spent the last several months developing and exploiting the IP to make it the star of this show," Green said on Saturday at VeeCon, sneaker games 2021 an NFT conference, moments after revealing a debut trailer for an upcoming show that will star NFTs from various collections. "Then days before... he's set to make his world debut, he's literally kidnapped." 

Green's Bored Ape was phished out of his account on May 8, according to records on NFT marketplace OpenSea. The scammer then sold the NFT two hours later to a user named DarkWing84, who paid $268,000 for it. Green, who got phished by trying to buy NFTs from a fake site, has repeatedly tried to get DarkWing84's attention on Twitter, seemingly to no avail. 

BuzzFeed on Tuesday ran a story that raised the possibility that Green could no longer run the show as is, with litigation attorney Daniel Dubin telling the publication that the stolen NFT's current owner could "cause trouble" for www.nftdrop.one Green if he wanted. 

Yet Green was relaxed at the conference, laughing about the matter alongside VeeCon host Gary Vaynerchuk. He confidently rejected claims made on Twitter that the show can no longer move forward. "Not true since the art was stolen," he tweeted. "A buyer who purchased stolen art with real money and refuses to return it is not legally entitled to expoitation usage of the underlying IP."