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How to Avoid the Art Scam
Written by Trippe   
Monday, 08 June 2009, 3:34am
They're even trying to scam the small artist. A heads up.
Matthew Lyman emailed last week after he was contacted by a guy from the Netherlands who was interested in buying a painting of his. It didn't take long for Matthew to realize that this guy wasn't interested in his work but was, in fact, trying to scam him out of a lot of money. These scammers are out there and they're trying to scam artists. Read the email correspondence below and beware.

Matthew: Hey Fecal Face, I'm a big fan of the website and just thought you might be interested in this little scam from the Netherlands. I guess you'll have to read the fowarded email from the bottom up but, basically this person contacted me about purchasing a painting of mine he saw on the internet, wanted to send me a check with extra funds for shipping then, I was to immediately deposit and withdraw shipping costs and western union the money to "federal shipper." I've just been trying to let people know, it's pretty obvious it's a scam but, he had me for a split second.

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Scammer: Hello, I came across your work on the internet, and i am highly interesting in purchasing it from you.. I want you to let me know its condition and the last PRICE you will sell it, so that i can make arrangements on how the payment will get to you as soon as possible . Hope to read from you. Best regards. Luther.

Matthew: The painting was finished in december 2008 and has been hanging on my living room wall in a smoke free environment ever since. It's not framed but, the 1.5 inch gallery wrap is finished in black, ready to hang or, be framed..... [insert painting details] the email continues: If you're interested I'll send you payment details, cashier's check will be preferred, personal checks okay but, make the whole process a bit longer.

Scammer: Matthew Lyman,

Thanks a lot for the response and i really appreciate for the more information you notify me regarding the work (More Rain For The Pan Handler), am ok with the price $2000 Am based here in den haag netherlands, so in order to make this transaction more convenient,i will take care of the shipping and handling.

I have a shipping company who am going to refer to you as the shipper who will come for the pickup of the work at your location or in your studio, so now once i send out the payment to you through a cheque, i shall email you to notify you.

Also am going to add a little excess funds which after you receive the cheque the same day you will deduct your money from the cheque and transfer the remaining funds on the cheque to the shipping company through western union money transfer so that they can arrange for the shipment.

So now in order for me to send the cheque to you i will want you to email me back all the below information in order for me to proceed on sending the payment to you as soon as possible.

Name on cheque;
Address on cheque;
Phone Number;.

once i receive all this information from you i shall proceeds right away and i will issue out the cheque to you and i will notify you as well.

Also i will love us to be communicating online through any im chatting id that you have so that we can finalize things and we can be notifying each other through the chatting, so kindly let me know your yahoo user id you have, and if you don't have any user id in yahoo just kindly go to yahoo.com and download yahoo messanger to your pc and register with yahoo and after you finish all, email me your user id so that i can add you to my list and we can be communicating on chatting as well Or if you have a skype user id let me know it because we can chat and even make a call to our self through skype if you didn't have skype just go to skype.com and download it to your pc and register with them and send me your user id.

I will be hoping to read from you as soon as possible, so that we can proceed on the transaction .

best regards
Luther.

Matthew: I was curious as to which shipping company you want to use and, why Western Union? WU is mostly for drug dealers and con artists here in the states.

Scammer: The name of the shipper is federal shipper.

No problem, and also let me have your chatting id either from yahoo messanger or skype for easy communication.

And also make sure that immediately the cheque arrive make sure the shipment funds on the cheque transfer to the shipper right away.

Luther.

Matthew (not to an email to the scammer but to Fecal Face: The emails turn into IM's so I couldn't send you the rest of the story but, once I started IM with this fella, I continually asked him to identify who he would use for shipping and all he would give me was "federal shipper" and then he'd keep badgering me for my address so he could send a check with "extra funds" that I was to deposit and withdraw the extra funds and send them via western union to "federal shipper." I told him that it would take at least a couple days for an out of country check to clear but, he kept insisting that i transfer the extra funds right away. Of course if I would have done that, the check gets cancelled and It ends up being my money that goes thru Western Union. It's pretty much one of the oldest scams in the book I guess but, I thought it was interesting he would actually pick a piece of my art on the internet, and contact me about the piece specifically, if he was trying to tell me I was the sole heir to the king of the Netherlands, his email probably would have ended up in the spam folder.

So, as you can see here, but aware. Make sure the check clears before you send the work. There's a lot more good info here to help not become a victim to these idiots. artscams.com {moscomment}

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