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To Kathleen or whom it may concern: I was almost caught up in this scam, until a red flag went up. The series of emails as follows: Received an email yesterday reading: Congratulations! Someone expressed interest in buying your work, name of piece, at the url: website url The intested party listed their name and […]
How many years have I been doing this blog. How many personal emails have I sent for years before I started the blog. Really, this scam has changed VERY LITTLE since it began. Why? Because it is still working for the scammers. Because they are still making money. If it wasn’t, it would have changed […]
Scammers are not above grabbing the names of real people online and using them for their own criminal purposes. Also notice how, in the below scam, the scammer begins by asking about PayPal (thus trying to establish some credibility with their victim) but then switches, using some trumped up story, to what they actually need […]
hello i wish i had come across your site earlier! ive been working on an art sale with a “thanh nguyen” with the email “mrknumb@gmail.com” . i researched him, his company, the bank the check was sent from, etc. i didnt know to look up art specific check fraud, so i wasnt aware this was […]
Here is a scam that is so telling – sent to an “undisclosed list of recipients” (aka huge spam list) and apologizing upfront for not remember your website (they have no way to track the websites of hundreds of thousands of people they spam every day, and really they are not visiting the websites in […]
Hi Kathleen, Thank you for doing this. I received a similar email back in August which is what made me suspicious of this one. It was a different name, Steve Levitt, but the phrasing was almost word for word the same. The first one I received is on your list, but this one is not. […]
Hi Kathleen, I was wondering if you might have heard of this person Rebecca Wallace from Guernsey UK. At first I thought it was a legitimate purchase inquiry… but now I think not. Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks, Matthew I think it’s GREAT that you are putting in the effort to help your fellow […]
Below is an example of how scammers are using skype. Skype doesn’t make them any more legitimate. In fact, you will discover scammers always some some made-up reason for why their camera on skype is NOT working but okay to text back and forth – keeping them anonymous and as slimey shadey as hiding behind […]
Pretty classic scam email below. So many scammers seem lately to be saying they have a store in Finland. Not sure what the preoccupation with Finland is about… Begin forwarded message: > From: Alex Starks [alexgreatlife@aol.com] > Subject: order > Date: June 28, 2014 10:46:33 AM EDT > To: > > > > Good day, […]
Thanks for your Art Scam blog. My partner, Liz, received one of these emails yesterday. Your blog helped us confirm our suspicions that it was a scam. Thank you so much for combatting this scourge! Kind regards Brian Email attached below. From: Simeon Ducroux [simeonducroux690@yahoo.com.au] Date: 26 augusti 2013 13:02:09 GMT+01:00 Subject: Re: Craft […]