8/11/2023 0 Comments Art of charm scam![]() Please be careful and vigilant with any and all requests from long distance buyers of your works. Saying he was in Glasgow, I offered him the option to mail a check to a British friend or to pay with Pay Pal, which he declined. He emailed me last week and we went back and forth in several emails but when I kept asking him how he had come across my site, what other artists he had bought similar work from that I could check with about they purchasing experience, he of course terminated our emails. Unfortunately the person purporting to be Thomas Map from Glasgow seems to be a scam artist. The dramatic painting by David Dalla Venezia above represents our frustration really well! Grrrrrrrr!!!! I'm very pleased you are doing your blog. I would similarly like to give this Thomas his come uppance as I'm really tired of people trying to exploit artists who have a tough enough time anyway! I went on to Google Earth, found the building and so got on to the managers of the property who readily gave me the info on who rents the spaces and for how long. One woman in New York set up a website to try to get artists to pay her to exhibit online with them (and supposedly in their physical gallery of which there was a picture) and I was able to find out that the 'gallery' was an office which she had rented in Manhattan for the afternoon. One gallery in London (Brick Lane Gallery) is a real rip off company and I was able to find out loads about their businesses and reported them to the Inland Revenue who were very interested in them. In the past when people have set up websites which try to rip off artists I have given them a good fright by writing directly to their home address. It's a shame this man didn't have a website from which he operated because then all you have to do is to go onto WHOIS and you can find out who registered the domain name, their address and telephone number and lots of other info about who they are and their operations. He obviously just went straight on to my info page, got my email then used his own email to contact me so I was able to reply to him directly. The info I have on him comes from my web stats and is as follows: Hi again Paula, I'm pleased you can warn other people. That seems to be an excellent place to start to examine a long distance request from. Have you had any other reports from your artists?Īpparently Smart Detective Susan above could see that the email came from Nigeria, info below from Susan. The email came from Lagos Nigeria and the person firstly went to my 'information' page to get my email then went on to just one gallery page and chose two drawings to nominate. I believe that the person was just after my bank details. I received an email from one Thomas Map offering to buy two drawings. Hi Paula, I believe I have been subjected to a scam via your site.
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