Artists, watch out for Scammers!!
Like many artists, I’m always looking for new projects or collabs. Illustrations, NFTs, and anything else cool. And sometimes for some mfers that makes us easy targets. 🧵 👇

Someone contacted me on X past year saying he or she was creative director of a Web3 game called “1986.” He sent some docs, talked about contracts, salary, praised my style (a lot actually lol)… Then asked me for a couple of simple character samples. 👉 images 1,2 are the sketches I made for him.

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After that, he said I should install the game and test it to “understand the mood.” Also offered a $500 advance… but only after registering through his site that implied download his shit. (Because they were so pros!) There was also the option to connect my wallet. Honestly, something felt weird. So I stopped

first I made my research, YouTube, Linkedin etc… and I din’t like too much What I saw. I asked ChatGPT for help. It was like, “DO NOT install anything or connect your wallet.” Then gave me a list of things to ask: legal name, blabla, tax ID, business address blabla…, all that boring but useful stuff.
I wrote back like: “Cool. I’m also pro. Can you send me this info first?”
He disappeared. Blocked me.
Stay safe out there. Some traps are getting very clever.
Have you heard of any scams artists should watch out for? Would love to learn from your stories too.

Getting folks to install weird shit has been their strategy for sometime now. Glad you were alert and avoided a mishap, Edu. Thanks for sharing.