Good Mornafterning, friends! It's 9 PM and I'm sleepy as heck. But I felt I needed to do a bit of due diligence to forewarn about  desmonddesart, whos account is only a month old, or "Valiant_Lamb_95070" on Discord, which account is about half a year old.

This person contacted me via notes and we had a conversation on Discord today asking to use one of my pictures as a pose ref for an art project he's working on, which is totally fine. And he wanted to pay me to use my art as a ref, which I humbly declined. But, he insisted I get compensated for the use of my art.

So, apparently Desmond's client was going to pay him $1800 for the project, and he wanted to pay me $350 for referencing my art. And (Now this is where things get scuffy...) his client directly emails me a check for $1800, and they want me to cash the check to my bank, keep my $350, and then send the remaining $1,450 to Despond. And I'm like "Uuuuuuhhh???????????????" The conversation then evolved to me asking a lot of questions, him having a lot of excuses why the client can't just send him the money himself, and an hour of Telegram calls with the client trying to convince me to trust them and cash the check, apparently because the client "Can't use CashApp, Zell, etc." and "Desmond's account is overdrafted", and "it's the only way to get Desmond the money" blah blah... Needless to say, I did not cash that check.

I think it's a money laundering scheme, and I am not going to be a part of it. I've attached screenshots of our entire conversation in a G-Drive, if you want to read (The FA Notes are pretty normal, just general greetings. The Discord Chat Logs have all the suspicious stuff). During our convo, he did show me several screenshots of people who did accept the checks, took their cut, and sent him the remaining amounts. His goal was to have me trust him by showing me these screenshots, but it only serves as evidence that people have fallen for this ploy and are pawns to money laundering. He's also showed me several pictures that claimed to have drawn, which I discovered to be a lie. [ https://drive.google.com/drive/fold.....usp=drive_link ]

While I can't do much against money laundering or other schemes, scams, ploys, etc., I can atleast spread some awareness so others don't fall for anything that'll put their information in jeopardy.

Tl;Dr - Careful who you talk to, and careful who's offering you big amounts of muns for small amounts of effort. If it doesn't make sense, interrogate and ask questions. If the answers don't make sense, step away from the situation.

That's all for now. Protect your persons, your info, your wallets, and your biscuits. uwu