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One of them wanted me to paint their cat. I told them the only animal I know how to draw is a giraffe. So then they asked me to paint them a giraffe.
@ColourDork It's really true lol. I always string them along for a while. Until they write something I can report them for.
@@wacky_paintings pretty smart
And that's funny lol
@@PeriluneStar Thanks, always got to be careful of those scammers. They can be very sneaky.
@@wacky_paintings yep
Another tip on someone paying you for a commission: If they plan on paying you more than the prices you have, a real buyer would not tell you they're doing that. They would pay what's stated and give a tip after its finished. Kind people exist, but they need to trust their commission is made before throwing extra cash at you.
With that being said, please tip your artist. Especially if you feel they're under pricing themselves.
Some people I know who commissioned me paid me extra without telling me! So yeah, this is definitely a good tip for commissioners
as someone who commonly tips the artists I commission after the work is completed, I can also confirm that this is usually how people go about paying extra for a commission.
I’ve gotten this three times now! The M.O.: “can you draw something for my kids”, spells the word “check” oddly (as in bank check), and “I can’t pay through third party payment sites”. Don’t be fooled, always require at least half of the cost upfront, and stick to your guns! Artists don’t starve! 💪
To be fair, if they are using 'cheque', then that is a legitimate way to spell it. It's the british/canadian way to spell it.
@@tinymittensdesign oh wow, I had no idea! I've just personally never seen it spelt that way before. Thanks! :D
yeah i just gotten one she looked so promising too :(
I recently posted a commission ad and immediately after got a message that, after getting PayPal information, asked me to pay for something through email. They're clearly looking in the tags, so don't take it personally if it happens to you, but it's still depressing.
i fell for this as my first commission low key gave me ptsd
Really wish I'd seen people talking about this scam before I fell for it. This scammer asked me to draw a portrait of her son (who looked no older than 10), despite the fact that I mostly draw adult women and regularly include mature themes in my art. Not sure why she thought my edgy wlw art was a good match for her. I even brought up the fact that I don't make art for kids, but she just insisted that my art is so good (I do agree that my art is very good, but I would've preferred to hear that from an honest person). I was even more concerned because she said her son loves my art, which makes me wonder why you would be okay with letting your young child look at that kind of stuff. I really wanted to turn the commission down on that basis alone, but I felt like it would be mean. After all, only a heartless artist would say no to a loving mother who just wants a portrait of her precious child(/s). As someone who honestly dislikes children, I don't think it's my place to tell others how to raise their kids, so I didn't feel like my doubts were a good enough reason to turn her down. Since I hadn't heard of this scam before, I didn't know what to suspect her of. I was also stuck in this mindset of "the customer is always right," so that didn't help. Good to know I should've been meaner. It was actually kind of a relief once I realized I'd been scammed because then I could finally tell that wench to buzz off (I did that as professionally as possible, though. She still had the gall to call me rude. As if it's not rude to scam people lmao).
Also, I should mention that the profile looked more legit than most scammers. It was public and had a decent amount of posts, all photos of herself and her child. The references she gave me weren't there, but the faces matched. I also tracked down her Facebook and it had a lot of the photos that were on the Instagram. Interestingly, I also found her name in a relatively recent court case - I haven't been able to find the documents for free, so I don't know what was going on there. The defendant could just be someone else with the same unusual name as her. However, I wouldn't be surprised if she's had trouble with the law before.
So yeah, that's a long summary of my experience. I'm glad this issue is getting more attention, but it sucks that this is even happening in the first place.
For me here are my red flags
My commission prices are extremely low, never going up past 50 dollars
If they suddenly say they want to pay 200 for no reason and they are ADAMANT about that 200 mark. For some reason 200 is there magic number it’s always 200 dollars
That and it’s typically a commission about a non antho animal commission, which is a red flag to me because I don’t advertise such type of commission, I do furry, human like furry, etc, but never like animals. That and they typically spam like but never follow, if they reach out to you immediately after liking your stuff, take caution..
Also, if they are insistent on getting your full legal name run
This happened to me a few days ago. I got a DM asking me to draw a picture for their son and that they would pay $100, way above my top prices. When I kept telling them to go to my artistree page and that I don't take commisions through DMs, they backed out completely
Similar thing with me. I do my commissions through Etsy and in social media I always advertise as doing them exclusively there and yet sometimes I get messages asking me if I'm available (which is often already a giveaway of a scammer in my case) to which I repeat that I only do commissions through Etsy and redirect them there. They most often stop replying from then on, but there was one case of someone trying to push through and when they realized they weren't going to get it their way they asked me how Etsy worked (probably to see if they could pull their scam through there) and to confirm whether or not I had a Paypal account. Once I explained and confirmed that I do not deal nor have PayPal they ghosted me.
I had a got scammed the very beginning of this year, $200 dollars is what I lost. Unfortunately I didn’t know that PayPal scams existed at the time (and it doesn’t make it any better that I didn’t know how PayPal worked). I was so excited to get my first commission that was so high that I overlooked all the red flags that should’ve told me it was to good to be true. I ended up figuring out that they scammed me at the very end of me sending them $200 back because “in order to except that high of that amount on PayPal I had to upgrade to a business account”. I never did get money back but I now know to watch out for scammers and be more aware. There are lots of bad people out there so please be careful 💕
I am really sorry you got scammed. Literally today someone tried to scam me the same way. They ordered a commission through Instagram, then claimed they paid me through PayPal. Following that I received an email from a suspicious source that said that the payment was too high because of my account limit and I had to pay back $200 back to the sender.
This legit sends shivers down my spine! Especially when you talked about how the scammer will ask for a portrait of their child's pet. That happened to me last February and I'm SO glad I turned it down. 😨
Thank you for making this video! 🙏✨I hope more artists are aware of these scams!
This happened to me a couple weeks ago! Someone messaged me asking if I was taking commissions. I responded no, since I have a lot going on right now and I don't have the time. Immediately they responded asking me to draw their son's pet for $200. This is obviously a red flag, so I checked the account. They had three pictures, none of which had any descriptions or hashtags, but still had over 9000 followers. The only people they were following were celebrities. I blocked them and never looked back.
And this is why on my commission form I specifically have it that I only accept payment AFTER the work is done. The client will receive watermarked/slightly-but-enough lower quality versions of the work for proof checking until payment is received. My watermark is basically a massive transparent outline of my logo that CANNOT be removed easily, especially on more detailed work.
Goddd this video is so important!! I almost fell for this scam once!
I’m so glad you brought this up! Because it’s extremely important for other artists to be careful!
Sameee, luckily I thought it was suspicious for them to use their 8 year old sons savings account to pay for his own birthday gift lollll
Same! I nearly fell for it once too but I noticed they had a weird payment method so I noped outta there
Yeah oof I remember that bud. I was there for that shit.
Also hoi~ >w> (I found you lol 😂)
I almost fell for this scam a few weeks ago lol
Also advising people to not send sketches to the clients before payment!! One of my clients ran away with a full sketch i made for them and I didn't receive any payment, tho that's my fault for not making sure they paid me first.
I tried opening commissions once, and literally my first customer turned out to be a scam...
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No, I didn't fall for it, but I was pretty upset about the situation.
I am so happy that you talked about this. I almost got caught by one when they pretend to be a gaming company and they wanted to hire me to develop character designs.
I am going to share this with my friends to make them aware.
This video is so on time, i started doing commissions on instagram and someone asked me to draw her son’s pet dog. I never draw pets but since this was my first time doing commissions,i got excited to get a client that i didnt give it a second thought so I accepted it. The thing is i charged her $7 for it and then she offered to pay $200 dollars for it, i told her that 7$ is fine with me and i wont take any other amount and i got left on read lolll
bro this happed to me too but i had sent my PayPal and i told him no idk if he sent it but i delated mt PayPal i got a latter in mail that somewhere there was 300 $ i just gave him his drawing and blocked him
Dawg, honestly just happened to me rn(which I thought would be my first genuine comission) asks me to draw their daughter lol
So yea, mum and sis founds out and he got confronted abt it. Yea
This happened to me twice. Both times I only said I will only except payment through the ways I listed and they both acted annoyed and confused. I didn’t know it was a scam at the time but I’m happy I said no. Be careful out there everyone ❤️
Got two of these shit already, they always run away when u show them that u can use Google to check photos from their profile 🙄
I had a one with a lady who kept talking about her dog. She even sent a picture of a dog 😅 They really are getting desperate 😭 but I need mah cash lol
This happened to me too!!! Twice actually but with two "different" people. I figured out it was the same scam the 2nd time because they sent the EXACT SAME DOG PICS
I felt that- my very first commissioner was one of these. They’ve asked me to draw a picture of their dog for $200 and insisted off paying from their sons child support-. Even if it was legitimate I wouldn’t have accepted them because that is awful parenting. But they told me the payment method after and scammed me out of a sketch. Luckily I am way more experienced now so I haven’t fell for it again. It still hurts though because I never seen genuine interest in my stuff before at that time.
Holy shit- this happened to me exactly! and the thing that set off my red flags were that they wanted my full name, it was my further research in figuring out the e-checks are impossible and talking to my bank that made me realize my concern was miss placed and their excuse was that they had a business acc and with more research I learned that was a bold face lie.
and yes they also just offered 50 dollars before I said anything about prices or they even told me what style they were after
Mine wasn’t Spider-Man or a pet however, it was what I assumed was their niece or daughter
That’s really odd
I had one "Client" want to pay through e-check. The majority it's PayPal. The message is always the same. And they quit answering when I say "I don't do portraits " or the must pay through my ko-fi or Artistree. I'm in several Facebook groups that people have had these kind of scams. And they are literally all the same kind of message.
This almost happened to me and I wasn't even doing commissions.
Same here!
Possibly same here! I was DM’d on Instagram with someone trying to commission me to draw something for her son (I don’t remember what it was) (I would also like to mention that I don’t like using my DMs unless I have to, like if someone I know messages me there) and she said that she would pay me about $200 for my art (the thing is I don’t do commissions at all because I don’t have any way of accepting payment. No PayPal, Visa or anything like that)
Maybe I should start putting that in my bio…
@@m1ntykassitea7936 I think, I got DM’ed by the exact same person as you…
Wanting to pay $200 for a drawing, it being for her son, etc…
same bruh, I said "oh I don't take commissions" but she just ignored it and continued
This happened to me twice!
(kinda…)
I don’t even *take* commissions(yet, since I’m still quite young and inexperienced)but was DMed on Instagram by a lady claiming, she had “fallen in love” with my art(despite NEVER having liked a single post from me EVER), and asked if I took commissions.
I said no in the kindest way possible(because of the reasons stated above) and that she should go ask an artist, who DO take commissions!
A few days later, she just randomly sent me two pictures of her son’s dog, since that’s what she wanted me to draw, both DESPITE not having told me beforehand AND AFTER I said no!
Another few days later, she just asked “Are you done?” which really confused me at first, but then when she mentioned drawings and that she’d pay me 200$ for them, I knew what was up, turned her down again and deleted the chat.
At around the same time, a guy in my DMs ALSO showed up and asked for a commission of his(you guessed it)son’s dog…
Didn’t even think twice, before I deleted the chat with him too!
Why is it always a dog and $200 💀
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Idk honestly..
I am a caricature artist and got an email like this, someone wanted their kid drawn and I think offered me $300. I emailed them once initially but I thought their language was pretty fishy and stopped there. A month later one of my colleagues texted me asking what I thought about a request he was getting. The exact same email with different names, my colleague is older and I am pretty happy that his warning bells went off when it did. He had a lot more back-and-forth emails with them. Our commissions can make it to $300 or more depending on what they want (its generally less though) so the alarm bells didn't immediately go off for either of us. I thought it was a really strange thing to specifically target caricature artists. I have heard of the over payment scam before so I think that helped me see things quickly.
Just mentioning commission on twitter will get you thousands of bots un your reply. As if getting commission wasn't already hard enough for artist.
its not just art commissions, this goes for small art businesses online too!! my mom got 2 scammers like this on her online store! the same exact "I'm going to mail you a check that will definitely be clear". thankfully she was smart enough to wait for the check to be cleared (was definitely a fake check) first before sending anything out!
This exact thing happened to me back in September. They added a whole other layer of it too by saying they wanted me to draw their dead dog as a memoriam, and they later wanted me to make a drawing for their "disabled child" (their words not mine), and it was when they started talking about the check stuff I knew 100% it was a scam and I was being played. Then I reverse image searched the reference images they sent me, and I found another Instagram account with all the pics on them and it they had a completely different name from the scammers username
An often giveaway that it's one of these scammers is their grammar surrounding the word "commission". A normal person would either use it in the plural or with an article, so like "are you available for commissions" or "are you available for a commission", but they pretty much always (in my experience at least) say it in the singular without an article, something like "are you available for commission".
I have encountered this multiple times! There are two things in my conversations with the scammers that I wanted to point out to others! One was that they got tripped up when I mentioned Cinco de Mayo being a holiday and said define please. this struck me as someone not familiar with US holidays but also as someone who possibly did not speak English as their first language! Two, they completely ignored me when I said things like this is how much I usually charge or please apply for the commission through my website form. They seemed very eager to quickly send the photograph of the subject that they were wanting commissioned! So eager in fact, in the last time occurrence that they were upset that I said I wasn’t available to start the commission until the first of the next month because I was currently working on other projects! I’ve also noticed that a lot of people who have been targeted by the scam on Instagram have said that they were targeted right before the weekend! I wonder if that is because of banks being closed on the weekend and it taking a while to verify the check!? I’ve also been thinking recently that there is another victim in these schemes because the accounts that they create sometimes have photographs to make the account seem less like a burner account! There is also a subject in the photos that they’re sending as reference for the commission! Who are these people? Who are these pets? What accounts are they stealing these pictures from?! Are the people in these photos aware that their photos are being used for the scam?! Isn’t that a form of identity theft!?
I had one where they were trying to give me $600 for a $120 piece of his three kids. It was going to be my first commission and i was so excited. He asked for my Paypal then I got a spam email telling me to change my Paypal to a Business account and would have to ask the guy for another $100. But when I checked my Transaction History, there wasn't anything saying he had sent the original payment. And he was obsessed with seeing the spam email I got
Thank you for always informing us on these scams 👏👏👏
I'm really glad to see someone covering this. Since last year I've had an increase in DMs asking if I do commissions. It seemed strange as I didn't think I had enough followers to be getting that much interest, but I did respond to the first one. They got back saying they can only pay by cheque at which point I turned them down. Recently I've noticed more comments on posts asking about commissions. The messages are usually quite general and would fit any artist. I haven't done many commissions before so it's not something I'm very confident with yet. The increase in scams has left me feeling a bit wary.
Guhhhh, got an email from a different person with pretty much the EXACT same wording.. I never fall for instagram scams but dammitttttttt the email was convincing. I didn't cash anything in yet (as I do not want them somehow knowing where/what my bank is) but I did give them my address for mailing the check and I feel like an idiot 0_o they even sent me a USPS tracking number for the check (which I didn't open, but now I'm afraid to) and it just sucks because I was excited about the money 😂😂 Ahhhhhh this just sucks. Thank you for making this video, you're a lifesaver
I've been wondering about this nonsense. I've had people on Instagram ask me about e-check. So annoying.
I recently got messaged with a fake commission, but thankfully I decided to reverse image search the dog photos they sent and saw they were taken from a popular Instagram
appreciate you making this video, i had no idea about it 😭
I’m so happy I found this video otherwise when I begin commissions I would have fallen for these scams
So keep to your prices, don’t accept checks, and choose wisely. If someone asks for a price up front just tell them to go to your commission form or copy and paste your prices from a separate note or doc. Also, ask for payment upfront and say no refunds to reduce strain unless if you cannot fulfill the request.
It does suck that once I sent out my commission form I immediately got like 3 seemingly bot like people who did just this and then didn’t respond when I put my commission form link in the chat. Also yeah about pets when I do only character art.
I'm wanting to start taking commissions at some point, so it's fantastic that I now have a means of doing so without much fear thanks to your recommendation! I'll definitely be using Artistree for commissions
Also, Spiderman being part of the scam, and then Batman being a Patreon, was for some reason really funny to me
I fell for one of these before and had a break down and couldn't sleep until 4 or 5 in the morning and woke up an hour later to tell my mom :')
I have gotten so many DMs on my Instagram of people asking me if they could commission me to draw their pet or son or something, I don’t even do commissions to begin with!
Man ty for bringing awareness to this!
We have those in Italy too. It'm starting to think it's an IA contacting you. Chat gpt is literally scamming artists. We are scammed by AI on multiply sides
I let them know that I have no way of sending money back . so be careful about what they pay 😎😎
I just want to add that there ARE generous people, even if they're apparently rare 😅
I have requested commissions at a very high price simply when I loved the artist's work and wanted to support them (kinda like a patron)
I guess I am not going to be able to ask any artist to paint either of my dogs that crossed the Rainbow Bridge, and whom I still miss terribly - Artistree or not...
...now I am so mad, I think dipping some scammers in seal blubber-scented tar, then rolling them in the most uncomfortable feathers possible. hog-tying them, and then dropping them off in the outskirts of Churchill, Manitoba, by the trash dump, on a pleasant August evening - then paying the security people to leave the garbage dump alone for the weekend...that's what the scammers deserve.
If I can't get my rescue dogs (who adopted my wife and me) painted, thanks to these scuzzball scammers - these scammers get to go to lunch, the hard way! (A new format of Japanese-inspired artistry, perhaps - "mangle manga"?)
I had the spiderman one done to me when I first started back to posting my art online, and it honestly made me really bummed out, even though I don't draw that sort of thing, I was willing to give it a shot and work hard to make it look good. but yeah when they said they couldn't do Paypal I knew it was a scam:(
Thank you for this video, I yesterday had a commission request as well and could immediately recognise the scam thanks tou your warnings. I appreciate it :D
Also, when doing an art trade and someone has to cancel on their part of the trade but is still excepting you to draw art, don’t. Even if it’s already finished, don’t send it
Something about the tone or "voice" of those scammer messages reminds me somehow of the ones who try and get fetish stuff from artists/writers. I had one dude message me three separate times on three different platforms, with several years between each (so I don't think he realized he'd already tried me before), trying to get me to write a fic involving Gamora from Guardians of the Galaxy putting his self-insert OC in a diaper to "punish" him. Thing is, first two times I was only doing SFW Doctor Who gen fic, had never even seen a Marvel movie, so that red flag pinged straight away when he was all, "hey, I really love your work, I think you'd be perfect to write something for me, so I really want something about Gamora..."
Third time, he was dripfeeding the details, so it took a few messages to realize it was that same dude, and I did have one Marvel fic to my name by then - a gen Loki whump oneshot. When he got to the diaper thing, I said "can I interest you in a Tony Stark/Adrian Toomes mechanophilia story instead?" and he blocked me.
Ugh that was the first one I’ve ever got
OFF TOPIC BUT THE PRICES OF UR CAT MERCH IS SO FUNNY AHHAHAHHAHA
Why is Spider-Man so "cursed?" Elsa Gate, this, what's next?
pretty much, don't take check. businesses can pay you by transfer or pay your invoice with a business card, same way with people able to buy things with cards...
I actually just got a scam offer like this today and I am glad I watched your video on this so I didn't fall for it! Thank you so much, your work is really invaluable to all artists!
Good to have out there in the open. I know us wannabe writers also have to deal with scams, and its sad you get the same phishing scams my Grandma gets
This happened to me- I started to see through it when he got to how he wanted to pay- HE WANTED TO MAIL ME A CHECK! A REAL PHYSICAL CHECK?!
The same thing happened to me, thank for the video
Thank you so much for this video. I only recently started posting my art online, and it'll probably take a lot of time and hard work before someone'll commission me, but now I know what to be vary of when it happens. Thank you so much again, have a great day and stay safe
Similarly, I believe there is also a bit of a reverse version of this scam in which people claiming to be artists message non-artists and ask, and I'm quoting the one my friend got sent, "If you don't mind one of your posts could be my inspiring muse for an art project i'm working on? You will totally get paid for it as well as a bonus also get credits reward"
Which is just. I don't even know where to start. It's really obviously sketch, but, like, my friend who is very much not an artist didn't know why it was sketch and just sent it to me because he thought it was funny/weird they found his meme posts inspiring. Pretty much everyone I showed the screenshots to agreed with me in saying it was fishy and likely a scam of some kind.
For context, I'm like 1-2 week new to instagram and i've only uploaded like 6 drawings and they're just like anime fan arts and my oc's portraits. I have 15 followers now and JUST YESTERDAY i got a dm of a lady saying that she fell in love with my art... i mean, as a beginner it just felt nice and i thanked her. THEN she actually asked me if i do commissions and stuff cause i don't have any prices on my page and she wanted me to draw a character so i thought about it and i was like yeah sure what's your drawing about and she sent me just 2 photos of the (i think) same dog... just like that. no context at all. AND OFFERING $200 dlls!!! thats like $4000 mexican pesos ???!!! I thought that maybe she just wanted her dog's picture BUT I DON'T DRAW ANIMALS, LIKE AT ALL, they're not even on my page... I tell her that and i offered just send them some sketches first and then we can talk about details and payment in advance before sending the final piece and she just told me that it was ok. My intuition said something was off but maaaaan i needed the money. I guess i'm just declining the offer the politest way i can and block her account. The account is private, she doesn't even follow my page just liked one Eren fan art i uploaded a couple days ago.
Also, if the scammer tells you that YOU have to pay them anything for the transaction to work, do not believe it.
If they tell you any excuses how the Paypal payment is not working and you have to do something, contact paypal and do not trust the scammer.
Do not give your phone number, do not click any link they send you.
Be always suspicious.
I got one of these literally last week, i was about to do it but something felt a bit of and decided to refuse it im so glad i did
your drawing tho😍
I feel like such an idiot for almost/practically falling for drawing spiderman for "their sons birthday" I got super sketched out when they were adamant about paying with a check "out of their sons savings account" and I held that drawing hostage until I realized they were not going to pay me after they started ignoring my messages about when they would send me the payment via paypal. it sucked because it was my first "commission" and their account looked legit with pictures of a mom and their son (which matched the pictures they sent me of said "son" as spiderman) though I finished the artwork, they never received it so I guess it's a win on my part. but now I have a spiderman drawing that I spent way longer than I normally would have on because I was excited about my first commission. long story short don't do what I did. also ask for at least half payment upfront
The same exact same thing happened to me it’s such a shame too, was her name elizabeth as well if not this might be some crazy rabbit hole loll
@@hamonbread62 mines called evelynn now but i don't remember what they were named before but they've definitely changed it several times
its not the exact same situation, but this is similar to something I had happen on eBay. I was selling a figurine that was accepting offers, and I got an offer for more than double the first price. I thought wow, awesome, I'll take this offer. The buyer and I emailed back and forth, him saying he was buying it for his cousin's birthday (which is weirdly specific, and mentioned multiple times), and kept asking for my PayPal to send the money. I said no, I would only take payment through eBay (which is what ebay says you must do anyways) but he kept insisting on sending it through PayPal only. Luckily I denied it, because I looked it up later and it is indeed a scam. They offer a high price for an item that you will accept, then insist on paying through PayPal, and then send you a fake payment notice to your email. Then you'll send the item without actually being paid.
Also they are asking to pay via PayPal, but if you provide them a link to request payment, it suddenly wont work, nor they can find you by nickname :D they will insist that the only way to make a payment is if you give them you PayPal EMAIL!!! DO NOT EVER DO THAT!
and about the prices :D actually, that scammer said she want 5 different artworks and willing to pay $300 , which is way less than I would charge :D I believe it was unexpected, so she said "you should do $300" like wtf :DD
I've gotten messages like this at least four times. Thankfully, I've always deleted the messages, but it's frustrating.
Never heard of artistree, I'll definitely check it out!
I had one, scammer contact me for portrait commissions. They said they wanted 15 portraits of themselves done, and ignored me when I said I was only comfortable with accepting one order at a time. I blocked them when I had to repeat myself regarding my discomfort accepting such a large order from a first-time client, and they ignored me again wanting to pay the full amount upfront for the 15 pieces I had said twice that I wasn't comfortable doing.
I was already sus, since I don't advertise commissions and I have no audience to speak of lmao, but that just kind of cinched it for me.
I had one offer the $200 but they offered upfront a PayPal transaction. I didn’t message them further but that was odd to me.
Also I got two requests like this at the very same time. One sent me a dm, one commented on my post to dm them if I was accepting commissions.
The one who commented didn’t follow me. She had posts from 2017, did seem legitimate even with recent posting but she still had the scammer behavior. She offered PayPal and $200 to draw her dog. I don’t know if they would have changed their preferred method of payment from PayPal to something else but I think these scammers are learning.
The one in my dm followed me but asked for his son’s pet. I didn’t even bother with that one.
Oh FUCK, I ONCE HAD SOMEONE TRIED TO PULL THAT SCAM ON ME. But I'm not a artist they were trying to scam me out of my MOTORBIKE AND MONEY. NO WAIT IT WAS TWO PEOPLE WHO TRIED THIS.
I've heard about this scam, I'm getting paranoid every scam video
I got my first scam today, a little heart breaking as i was pretty excited but they sent me a photo of a "sexy" women asking me to draw, when i dont even draw people but mostly ghouls and creatures
I almost got scammed few weeks ago with the same e check stuff. If people can’t pay you with the stuff you say you use to get payment. Then never accept the commissions. They wanted me to paint their pet, when they didn’t wanna send a picture and when I said I couldn’t draw pets then asked for a painting of a cartoon character for their little sister. Red flag, if the painting is for them but then they switch it up like that it’s a scam. Then the person wanted the biggest canvas I had which. I just reported and blocked them after that. I almost water paint and a large canvas on a Dora painting for a scammer! Don’t be fooled fellow artist!
Also always check who they follow, if it’s just artist then it could be a scam as well. And to also be best I message those artists to warn them about the scammer
My friend who is a beginner artist also got this similar one to draw passed away dog and almost got scammed by these people, luckily the person who fake commission my friend decide to change their name and my friend decide to lure them out and send their Paypal account to Paypal Phishing and wasting their time like 36 hours straight before blocking them and warn about this people on many art groups
12:12 "These scammers can be relatively convincing", I mean yeah once he said "Dude trust me" there was no reason to doubt him whatsoever, Damn these guys are getting good.
I'm getting a scam that I still don't see the point at all, like the person talks and talks how they want the commission and how my art is so good (of course, they don't follow me) they even say they accept Paypal invoices and when I ask for their emails they vanish, like I understand if they normal people giving up that happens, but is always "My son birthday is coming soon can you draw him his dog?".
Like makes me wonder if I should give up my Instagram, because never get true clients there just scams :T
i had something similar!! I charge about 30-120 for a pet portrait hand painted depending on size, medium ect. Someone offered 300 which is not uncommon for realism. though i asked the scammer over 3 times of what they want and they "sent" the payment but instead sent me a fake paypal email that i had to pay them 200 because 500 was over the "accepting" limit. I realized this was a scam and told them off, the person contacted me on a different account but a different dog picture but still a scam
So the pet-thing is common? Same day this video got uploaded someone asked me on instagram if i could do a comission drawing her son’s pet for him, only thing is that She didn’t give me an amount of money for wich i would draw. Lucky me, i don’t do comissions just yet because i’m very Wary of money
I only ever get messages from weirdos asking me for art on WIP posts that I share on Instagram, like bro, it’s an unfinished piece, the account is private, and I am by nature suspicious of just about anyone I don’t actually know. 🤣
Someone tried to do the same to me recently. They even sent me fake emails! Luckily I didn't give them the email to my actual cashapp. They kept trying to get me to send them 100 since they faked having to give me 100 to upgrade my account to a business account. I'm 16, so it obviously wouldn't work. Luckily I caught onto it
What about in reverse about the artist is the scammer?
Hello! May I suggest I possible topic around art for future videos? (I actually just learnt about it and found it an intersting question). I have heard of the critiques Samdoesart recieved because he drew an actress not resembling the real person but with the same face of all his female subjects, which he stated to be a choice because he finds that face the most attractive (but I think he was joking in that answer). On the contrary, he has always drawn men with very different and individually characterised faces. (Btw by now Sam fixed the drawing and discussed the same-face-syndorme question and expressed the intention to increase diverse features). I think that this event might be a nice starting point to discuss the representation of women through the whole art history mainly by male artists, the depersonalisation and idealisation of women as objects of desire in male art (not necessarily what Sam wanted to do, but I think that this topic can be linked in a discussion around it), the pressure of beauty standards that art can support or disrupt, the similar tendency on instagram (with filters and aesthetic surgery) to have the same idealised face and body types in order to gain popularity especially for women. I find all of this a very intersting topic, and I hope you do too;) (but no pressure if you don't, it's just a suggestion. If not this, I bet that you will bring up a lot of other interesting topics in your videos, as you always do). Bye!
OH YES I RECEIVED 4 TIMES THESE SHITS AND THEY ALWAYS SEMD YOU HIGH QUANTITYS OF MONEY THAT YOU CANT GET CAUSE IT SURPASS THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT MY ACCOUNT CAN GET AT ONVD
Me: Uploads Harry Potter/ Neville Longbottom fan art to Instagram...
I get a comment on it about 5 seconds later, asking if I could draw their son's dog. I look at the account... It's the account of an American christian dad of 2 kids who looks to be in his 40s or 50s with a giant beard...
Me, 0.002 seconds later: "Bruh.. that's not a red flag... that's an entire Soviet army parade!"
yeah I got one of these I just did a free artwork cos I'm just a hobby artist
I think I almost got scammed with the "portrait of my dog" scam. Luckily for me I don't have a way to accept money and not knowing it was a scam, I ended up referring them to another artist
Great advice. Also making a trademarked or copyrighted character for money like spiderman is also copyright infringement.
I got scammed like this and it seemed very legit up until the payment. The person asked me to draw their daughter, had other pictures of them in the Instagram account, and I do mostly draw girls. This makes me think that this was an actual person who is who she says she is behind it. But she also scams people. It's possible.
how does artistree payment work? both as buyer and artist?
I remember i got a guy in my insta dms asking for a comm when my bio was literally "commissions: closed" ☠️
He was asking to pay w e check 2, i js said they werent open rn and when he pushed it i blocked him lol, i js thought it was an entitled guy but now i think i get what he was trying to do, doged a bullet there lol
This isn't the first video that I've watched about this exact thing. Hopefully artists are more aware now and the scammers with move somewhere else, or better yet just stop.
If I get one more woman with a privated Instagram account offering to pay me 200 dollars for "one birthday picture" of their daughter, I'm gonna quit art /j
I had one of these a few months ago, it was someone trying to get me to do their graphic design homework though (pretty sure it was a scam and not an actual student). was really weird. i'm not a graphic designer & wasn't offering graphic design commissions either lol.
Hey to fellow artists, I just took my first commission job and I think I being scammed. So I'm a really small time artist who doesn't post regularly and someone dm me for a commission. At first I didn't want to do it but I needed money so I went ahead and processed. We were discussing payment issues and they offered to give me a check even though I felt uncomfortable doing that. They tell me that there using their business account and that they have a $1000 limit meaning they'll send me a thousand dollars and I'm only charging 45, so I would have to send the rest back. It just all sounds SUS to me and I need some advice from fellow artists.
Nevermind I blocked and reported them. The person who contacted me started to scare me to the point that they started to call me, through ig
If u draw anime and someone ask you to draw their dog or child, their fake. No real human would let you draw anime of their child
That's weird because I've had people come to me irl and ask me to draw their dog or child in my style (which is a anime cutesy style)
@@autumnsartstudio not with the nsfw art that i do
I had one of that! I felt so dumb he almost got me when I saw the email on my spam, apparently PayPal got a Google account 🤪
12:40 Squarespace would be displeased.