On Mar 20, 2008, at 8:14 AM, David Turk wrote:
My partner has a website advertising his artwork for sale. He received this email Monday. We're trying to ascertain whether this is a real person, & if the offer is legit. There are several aspects that make it sound questionable (moving to South Africa, asking for discounts, taking out the shipping costs). He's thinking of offering limited edition prints of the artwork, rather than the artwork itself. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
I am quite positive that it is a scam. I work in an art gallery/ picture framing establishment, and we were hit with a similar e-mail scam involving the shipping of artwork. I protested against cooperating with the sender of the e-mail, but a couple of others at the gallery played along because they saw dollar signs. After they spent a lot of time sending e-mail back and forth to the sender, they finally discovered what I had told them all along, that it was a scam.
Eventually it was found out that this type of scam is common, with a few twists added here and there to make them appear to be different in nature.
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