If you post your work on IG, beware of scammers.

[bif]

I've had attempts to scam me before, but this recent one was rather unique. A woman contacted me and said she wanted to commission me to do a painting for her son's birthday. He's turning 5 and loves Spiderman and anything to do with spider webs. I told her how much I charged and sent her some reference photos of some webs. She picked one and said she needed to withdraw the money from her son's account. This dragged on for a couple weeks. Then, yesterday she said the boy's father withdrew the wrong amount. Now I knew what was coming. She asked if she could send me the cheque for $1,500, take my commission, and send her the rest.

I told her I knew a scam was coming but I was surprised she dragged it out for this long. And I told her to wish "Micky" a Happy Birthday for me.

[fierywoman]

1. I had someone try a scam like this regarding violin lessons.

[bif]

3. I guess they wouldn't keep trying if people didn't fall for it!

I get about 3 or 4 emails a day from various people trying to get 75 million dollars out of their country, including Kaddafi's daughter!

[Cattledog]

2. She needed to withdraw money from her son's account!

Red flag right there.

[bif]

4. I knew right from the start it was a scam

I was just curious how it would play out.