Hello everyone,
after receiving for the third time a “scammy” electronic mail, I wanted to write down one thing about it, hoping that this may assist different artists that got here throughout this annoying expertise.
Battle Royale.
I obtained simply one electronic mail per yr, the sixteenth of February 2014, the fifth of June 2015 and one other one at the moment, twenty fourth of February 2016. The emails are totally different and have totally different senders names, however the content material is just about the identical:
“Do you continue to have – identify of the paintings – obtainable on the market as i’m extremely fascinated about it and do you settle for Paypal as a mode of fee and likewise if choose up is appropriate, hope to learn from you quickly”.
In all three circumstances the e-mail object was the title of the paintings, so it was fairly straightforward to acknowledge that was a rip-off virtually instantly. Now, all my works are on sale by way of official web sites as Saatchi or Etsy for instance, so to me it doesn’t have any sense to be contacted privately for asking to buy them.
If this isn’t your case, I extremely advocate you to google the e-mail obtained and the identify of the sender. Then it is going to be straightforward to determine them, as a result of they ship a number of emails to totally different artists inside the similar days, and web is a valuable supply of knowledge, particularly after we are coping with these type of individuals.
I’ll write beneath the e-mail and the sender names of the scammers, so that you could be conscious as soon as you’ll obtain the identical electronic mail. I’d like to replace this listing, simply to place all the things in a single place and finally create supply for different artists. Please share your expertise, the suspicious emails obtained and if you would like, write down on a remark the e-mail sender identify, electronic mail tackle and content material.
I will likely be more than pleased to create a listing of scammers by way of this submit.
Replace – 30 June 2016
One other of those scammers wrote on my weblog with a public remark (probably not good).
Right here it’s the message:
My identify is Jason Cloud from Washington DC. I used to be searching for some paintings on-line and i discovered your contact whereas looking out. I’ll prefer to buy a few of your work for my spouse as a shock reward for our twentieth anniversary.Please kindly ship pics and costs of a few of your artwork that are prepared for quick sale inside worth vary $500- $5000, i could possibly be versatile with worth. So i’ll hope to listen to much more about any obtainable piece in your stock prepared for quick sale.
Thanks and finest regards,
Making a fast search on Google plainly the EXACT message (the man is an fool) was despatched to a different individual from Mike Evans and Chana Cohen.
Simply keep alert as a result of they periodically ship the identical shit to all their contacts. Please hold me up to date.
Replace – 7 December 2016
A brand new electronic mail rip-off is arrived, this time by way of my Tictail store:
Hiya Vendor,
I’m within the quick buy of your merchandise which fee will likely be made to you through PayPal. I’ll such as you to get again to me with you reply through my electronic mail tackle beneath, in order that we will discuss extra higher. (jamesjohnson11963@gmail.com)
Reply again to: jamesjohnson11963@gmail.com
Thanks.
When you personal a Tictail store too, simply bear in mind that this scammer is working there. I additionally obtained an official electronic mail from Tictail warning to not belief this account.
Replace – 19 Might 2017
I already wrote this data by way of the feedback beneath, however it could possibly simply get misplaced.
If you’re UK based mostly you possibly can report these scams right here:
http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/scam-emails
I consider that every nation has this part devoted to report on-line scams. Be happy to place the hyperlink of your nation within the feedback, I’ll replace the listing in case.
I’m completely satisfied that you’re actively commenting and sharing your experiences, however one of the best ways to do one thing it’s to report them to the postal police. Proceed to share and to remark as a result of it’s a great way to be discovered from different artists on the web, but additionally report back to the police too.
Artwork Electronic mail Scams Listing
Jason Cloud – jasoncloud2424@gmail.com
Mike Evans – mikee2230@gmail.com
Peter Adams – petadams@reside.com
Milton Fred – milfred001@reside.com
Debbie Martins – debmart001@outlook.com
James Johnson – jamesjohnson11963@gmail.com