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Attention, scammers!
2 years ago
Recently I have received several such messages from different people like "Oh, I want to order a picture, but let's communicate by e-mail instead of notes".
It all looks pretty decent, the FA/Twitter note system really sucks. But be careful with that kind of thing.
How it happens - a person writes you a message that they want to order something noticeably expensive, 2-3 times the normal price. The next step is "attempting" to transfer to Paypal, after which you will receive a phishing message about "financial verification" where to get a huge transfer from a new customer you need to confirm your identity/financial solvency by sending only $50. As you realize this will be a trap and he will disappear.
You should be especially careful if you are an beginner artist and artists from Ukraine or other countries where paypal has appeared relatively recently
It all looks pretty decent, the FA/Twitter note system really sucks. But be careful with that kind of thing.
How it happens - a person writes you a message that they want to order something noticeably expensive, 2-3 times the normal price. The next step is "attempting" to transfer to Paypal, after which you will receive a phishing message about "financial verification" where to get a huge transfer from a new customer you need to confirm your identity/financial solvency by sending only $50. As you realize this will be a trap and he will disappear.
You should be especially careful if you are an beginner artist and artists from Ukraine or other countries where paypal has appeared relatively recently
I pointed out to them that the "Paypal" email I had received from them was not from the Paypal website and was certainly a scam.
They just responded with "Oh." and I never heard from them again.
It was such a lazy attempt. XD
That's the sugardaddy scam, just for furry artists, weird that these people have crept into FA now. Anytime something doesn't seem normal, it probably isn't! Be careful people!