Stop Art Scams

Scammers use the Internet to find new victims. I fight back using the Internet to educate and help artists NOT become victims.

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Scam Email: Cynthia Hilson

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Here is an email I received this morning from an artist: Good work Kathleen. Thanks for taking the time to compile the scam list. Just rec...
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Monday, October 24, 2011

Scam Email: Lynda James

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Scammers choosing James as part of their fake name seems like a really common thing. Clearly they don't use a name randomizer. Ooops. Mu...
46 comments:
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Scam Email: Ricky Tetteh

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Ah yes, this is exactly the kind of language I use when I talk about my art with clients..... NOT! And what is with the signature?? The fa...

Scam Email: Patrick Doe

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This came from the same servers I saw on a different scam email I posted Monday, so clearly the same scammer is exploiting the same server t...
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Monday, October 3, 2011

Scam Email: John Cool

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Got two scam emails in succession last night, one at 12:34 am and the second at 12:57 am. It was probably the same scammer sending out a mas...
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Monday, September 26, 2011

Scam Email: Thomas Morris

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This interesting thing to note about the scam below that was forwarded to me is that the scammer got really confused about his faked name. I...
27 comments:
Monday, September 12, 2011

Scam Email: Bill Richard

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Notice the ugly altered "Return-path" on this scammer's email. They were somehow able to route their scam via AOL servers whil...
1 comment:
Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Scam Email: John Cool

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I got two of these, the second one coming only 9 minutes after getting the first one, both identical. This scammer decided not to even bothe...
Saturday, August 27, 2011

Scam Email: Campbell Kelly or John Campbell

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This scammer just couldn't decide who his fake identity was. Started out as Mr. Campbell Kelly but then quickly dissolved into John Camp...
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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Scam Email: Linda Scott

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This scam is not art related but an artist forwarded it to me. Egads! This scammer went on and on and one, hoping their story would somehow ...
54 comments:

Scam Email: Ballet Ryan

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Here is a note I received from another artist: Friday, I had an email that I was suspect of the content. Today I am sure! Someone is tryin...
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Monday, August 15, 2011

Scam Email: Jasmine Anthony

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The thing I found odd about this scam email is how the scammer seems to have used a "reply" to paste in to their main email (notic...
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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Scam Email: Fanbox.com

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Fanbox.com, formerly known as sms.ac, is one of the most annoying and sleaziest spams and misrepresentations going right now. When you sig...
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Saturday, August 6, 2011

Scam Email: James

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We've reported on this one before but it's been awhile so here is another one received this morning from the fake name of just ...
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Friday, August 5, 2011

Spam King could get 40 years for 27 million Facebook messages

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Sanford Wallace has been around for a long time. Ever since I can remember anyone talking about spam. And I've been involved in the inte...
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