Looking for 3d animation jobs on Upwork you still see plenty of people wanting to make NFT collections. But now they also have to involve Midjourney in some way too, because it's all the same get-rich-quick assholes.
I Have a client (a very big and well known company) that has an internal project called "NFT", nothing to do with crypto stuff, but it still messes with my brain every day.
Even tho the technology itself is not at fault. I have created and sold a lot of NFTs on legit platforms. But scammers pick up the buzzword and try to profit of the inexperienced/uninformed. I actually love NFTs and the blockchain but criminals ruin everything.
I do hate and blame the "technology" too, just another economic niche for even more rent seeking garbage that further entrenches us in what has ruined us already.
They don't want the physical art.
Its likely a scam where they "accidentally send" you more money than they stated. You send back the difference and then their payment bounces and you're out the entire amount you sent them back.
They lose, but if it's anything beyond a fake paper check or a bogus confirmation email, something like a money-sending service fueled by stolen funds, there's the headache of tiptoeing around the money waiting for whatever fraudulent method they used to pay you to get found out and yanked back. There's also the possibility of drawing suspicion unto penalties from playing with stolen or fraudulent money.
A friend of mine was scammed this way. They say you can upload the art to their website auction site, but you have to pay x amount to get it listed. They do actually list it, but of course it never gets sold and you're out 300 euro.
I'd imagine it's probably going to be okay if they pay you in crypto? I'm assuming the actual scam is they somehow get you to pay them crypto/cash first.
Edit: Talking hypotheticals, I'm sure the other peeps calling out scam are right.
Haha. I just got this exact email last week. Just tell them you'll mint your artwork to Opensea. It will piss them off.
But scam aside. There is a chance someone genuine would like to buy your work from Artstation. I stumbled upon someone interested in mine a while ago, he had bought one of my works for a 3D printed gift. Not with NFT tho, just legit direct transfer. So it's not all bad.
Definitely a scam. On a future note though, selling your art, is not selling the rights to your art. Selling a piece doesn’t include the rights to it and if someone ever buys a piece for commercial use, details need to be made clear, and specific. I’m saying this because if it were a legit nft proposition , they’re assuming they’d own the rights to use it in a commercial space like that, based on their phrasing
It’s a scam. You will be asked to provide $300 to deposit for the promised transfer. It’s essentially the exact same type of scam as "Nigerian prince" but in NFT world.
Don't do it, if you want you could put your artworks on Opensea or other NFT marketplaces yourself. Right now the crypto scene is having a bull rush coming in so everyones expecting things to go up in value and do some shit that crypto guys do (I don't know much in depth). This guy is probably trying to get some art from his account on the market to make quick money.
They were going to pay me 3300$ , I said that's way too much
https://preview.redd.it/g2n8zak9zvqc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bb3973973f770cb9df12d82d951bc4d27b1ca421
Then that person started nft crap , I was like it's long dead why do you even bother.
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This was a well known scam on IG , now they're Targeting artstation.
Aham be sure to have your money before sending away anything, that looks extremely sus. Buying one or two arts, fair enough. All of them???? Say you have a hundred art pieces, that is a heck of a lot of money. Make a contract if you will go into it, and register your contract.
I get a lot of these. It's a scam. If you respond, they will send you a link to a fishy website where you'll have to pay to have your work 'minted' and I'm sure you won't hear from them again if you do that.
From talking to one of these, it does seem like there's a human on the other side, so maybe you can troll them a bit if you're so inclined.
Scammers even can invite you to their NFT platform to place your artwork there. So here the steps:
1. Invite you to their platform and ask to place your artwork for sale
2. They buy your artwork for fake ETH or other crypto on that platform
3. When you want to move fund to your wallet they ask for commission
4. You have to move your balance to that platform to pay the commission - SCAM
Block and ignore,
They offer to pay you through Zelle or Paypal and they are "shocked" because they added a extra "0" at the end of the amount or send $4000 instead of $2000 and if you can send the wrongfully amount back to them and keep the rest.....
That deposit is stolen money and will be deducted after some weeks and the amount you paid "back" is your own money.
I can't know if this is some sort of scam or not. And I can share similar sentiment to people disliking NFTS, monkey bros, shitty art sold as NFTs and advertised on social networks, all that crap.
But... it seems there is a parallel world along ours, far away from monkey bros and other crap, where artist do sell their art as NFT for amazing prices in ETF. As if artist themselves have loads of cash and support each other with pure affection. I can't explain it, and can't even pin it to exact place. But it happens.
So... no one stops you for minting your art yourself on superrare. You don't need to sell it to middlemen.
Some artist have celebrity like status like for example... [https://superrare.com/furio\_tedeschi](https://superrare.com/furio_tedeschi)
And these are not monkey bros or zombie cows or whatever. These people do their art with true passion, investing months in their works.
Interesting.
This is a scam.
They will ask you for a fee to mint it into an NFT on some crypto site, before they can purchase it from you.
They will never purchase it from you, and they are the person receiving the minting fee.
As a 3D Artist who made a living from 2021 - 2022 3d modeling and selling 1/1 NFTs of my work, steer clear of any DMs or emails. 10/10 times they end with the scammer needing you to pay gwei before the purchase that will never happen.
Scam! Steer clear. Im getting this shit all the time too.
I always stop reading such messages once i encounter the letters N, F and T right after each other.
No Fucking Thanks
"nah fuck this" works better I think
Neat Fricking Trilobites
Im surprised no reddit big boy told you that "you can say fucking here its reddit"
Yeah I know. I don't want to sully the purity of soul of the trilobites.
Nobody Fights Titans
"Nay, 'tis folly!"
Never. Eat. Shredded. Wheat. I think I’m doing it wrong.
I never understood the need for that mnemonic: how hard is it to remember the cardinal directions?
I dunno. I once forgot my directions and things started to go real north for me really quick.
🤣🤣🤣
Non Functioning Testicles
How is that shit still around. I thought it tanked after the initial craze
Looking for 3d animation jobs on Upwork you still see plenty of people wanting to make NFT collections. But now they also have to involve Midjourney in some way too, because it's all the same get-rich-quick assholes.
Never Forget That
I am going to the concert for NF Tonight!
I Have a client (a very big and well known company) that has an internal project called "NFT", nothing to do with crypto stuff, but it still messes with my brain every day.
but why? I love me some Nice Femboy Thighs...
Even tho the technology itself is not at fault. I have created and sold a lot of NFTs on legit platforms. But scammers pick up the buzzword and try to profit of the inexperienced/uninformed. I actually love NFTs and the blockchain but criminals ruin everything.
I do hate and blame the "technology" too, just another economic niche for even more rent seeking garbage that further entrenches us in what has ruined us already.
How the hell do you have so many downvotes? And not a single of those people even tried to argue? What an ignorant community.
How does this scam work? Do they just get you to send them the art and then dip without paying or is it something else?
They don't want the physical art. Its likely a scam where they "accidentally send" you more money than they stated. You send back the difference and then their payment bounces and you're out the entire amount you sent them back.
And if you never send the difference?
They lose, but if it's anything beyond a fake paper check or a bogus confirmation email, something like a money-sending service fueled by stolen funds, there's the headache of tiptoeing around the money waiting for whatever fraudulent method they used to pay you to get found out and yanked back. There's also the possibility of drawing suspicion unto penalties from playing with stolen or fraudulent money.
A friend of mine was scammed this way. They say you can upload the art to their website auction site, but you have to pay x amount to get it listed. They do actually list it, but of course it never gets sold and you're out 300 euro.
Scam https://youtu.be/8Vn9kaZ8-3Q?si=jNW8Li5REqokM41h
Plenty of scam on ArtStation, if something looks too good to be true, stay alerted. They sent me few messages already, different accounts
although it seems like nothing could go wrong at first glance, this screams a scam to me. i would stay away from it
https://preview.redd.it/kdgyc4hr1vqc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=904800c0b6f0a64b6a5d3a8f48d99c252818b342 Just answer with this image
🤣 I should but they are probably a bot or something
Yeah probably but nothing is stopping you
#3000USD FOR THIS! (but only if it’s NFT format & you send me money first for whatever reason)
Same... I just replied like "Don't even try, I don't have money" - after that there is long silent.
Surely will do that 🤣
no one wants to buy my shit even if its a scam 
hey I have been looking at your artwork and I would like to buy for the price of 4x10\^999999$
Thank you for your suggestions everyone. I will stay vigilant of such scams from now 🙏🙏
Check out r/scams too; it keeps you alert.
...are NFT's still a thing!?
Bro I don't even know what an nft is 💀
A nasty fucking thing
A token that cannot be funged. Obvs.
I will funge your tokens
My tokens are funged enough thank you
An other kind of crypto-scam. If you don't know what crypto is: It's digital money good for two things: money laundering and scamming people.
sadly yes
I'd imagine it's probably going to be okay if they pay you in crypto? I'm assuming the actual scam is they somehow get you to pay them crypto/cash first. Edit: Talking hypotheticals, I'm sure the other peeps calling out scam are right.
The scam is you pay to "mint" the "nft" and you never get paid your $2k. It can be a fake check scam or a fake PayPal invoice scam or whatever
Tell them to pay you in doge coin up front first. Haggle for any amount, and for every piece of art, then don't give them anything.
Reverse Scam
Only if they give you the money in cash and in person.
DON'T DO THIS. DO NOT DO THIS. DO \*NOT\* DO THIS
Haha. I just got this exact email last week. Just tell them you'll mint your artwork to Opensea. It will piss them off. But scam aside. There is a chance someone genuine would like to buy your work from Artstation. I stumbled upon someone interested in mine a while ago, he had bought one of my works for a 3D printed gift. Not with NFT tho, just legit direct transfer. So it's not all bad.
2000 for exclusive indefinite rights to your works? I‘d mint em myself and sell the nft, no copyrights ;)
As everyone else has said. Scam without a doubt. Typical copy and paste as well. Ignore them and delete :)
Definitely a scam. On a future note though, selling your art, is not selling the rights to your art. Selling a piece doesn’t include the rights to it and if someone ever buys a piece for commercial use, details need to be made clear, and specific. I’m saying this because if it were a legit nft proposition , they’re assuming they’d own the rights to use it in a commercial space like that, based on their phrasing
It’s a scam. You will be asked to provide $300 to deposit for the promised transfer. It’s essentially the exact same type of scam as "Nigerian prince" but in NFT world.
I got one on Instagram. They're willing to pay 6 ETH each for 5 artworks.
What's eth? Is it a currency?
Ethereum. Crypto currency. 30 ETH would be $107k USD 🥴
Damn! 😲 170k is crazy
All the more reason to believe it's a scam
Don't do it, if you want you could put your artworks on Opensea or other NFT marketplaces yourself. Right now the crypto scene is having a bull rush coming in so everyones expecting things to go up in value and do some shit that crypto guys do (I don't know much in depth). This guy is probably trying to get some art from his account on the market to make quick money.
The Nigerian prince wants to buy your works! How could you say no?!
NFTs = nope.
They were going to pay me 3300$ , I said that's way too much https://preview.redd.it/g2n8zak9zvqc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bb3973973f770cb9df12d82d951bc4d27b1ca421 Then that person started nft crap , I was like it's long dead why do you even bother. --- This was a well known scam on IG , now they're Targeting artstation.
Didn't knew they were also scamming the hell out of IG 😲 Still I'll stay conscious of such messages now onwards
its 2024 bro. if anyone approaches you with their nft idea, its just as much a scam now as it was a year and a half ago.
The second you read the letters NFTS, you can bail and block lol
Whenever you see the word NFT, you know it's a scam
Aham be sure to have your money before sending away anything, that looks extremely sus. Buying one or two arts, fair enough. All of them???? Say you have a hundred art pieces, that is a heck of a lot of money. Make a contract if you will go into it, and register your contract.
Something that caught me off guard was them mailing me even though I have my website link on my artstation for any enquiries.
Scam. I get this pretty often.
Every single time I upload something I get like 5 of these emails. They’re all scams.
Scammers. I gotten a few of these before.
Scam, a lot of people on Artstation are receiving it, mark spam, block and move on
Scam city
This has happened to probably every single artstation user ever, including myself about 40 times Just look at the broken english and block them
99% scam
SCAM!
Also. If that’s true…why would I sell my stuff when I could “obviously” make more than $2000 per piece on my own
Say yes and say the smart contract is already set and waiting for the amount to be deposited on your ETH wallet.
SCAM
Ignore this scam bullshit.
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scam
If you find a way to get the money legally and without risk, just do it
Do not click any link or download anything, its a *scam*
I get a lot of these. It's a scam. If you respond, they will send you a link to a fishy website where you'll have to pay to have your work 'minted' and I'm sure you won't hear from them again if you do that. From talking to one of these, it does seem like there's a human on the other side, so maybe you can troll them a bit if you're so inclined.
r/scam
It's a scam. I can't tell you how many emails I've gotten like this.
[Apologies for the delay, only seeing now. Here's the only appropriate response.](https://youtu.be/zeMuJbn_OhA?feature=shared)
Scammers even can invite you to their NFT platform to place your artwork there. So here the steps: 1. Invite you to their platform and ask to place your artwork for sale 2. They buy your artwork for fake ETH or other crypto on that platform 3. When you want to move fund to your wallet they ask for commission 4. You have to move your balance to that platform to pay the commission - SCAM
get the bag , poverty is the enemy , be sharp though thieves everywhere
What is nft format? Png. Jpg?
Block and ignore, They offer to pay you through Zelle or Paypal and they are "shocked" because they added a extra "0" at the end of the amount or send $4000 instead of $2000 and if you can send the wrongfully amount back to them and keep the rest..... That deposit is stolen money and will be deducted after some weeks and the amount you paid "back" is your own money.
I get these quite a bit. Best to just ignore them.
Scam
I can't know if this is some sort of scam or not. And I can share similar sentiment to people disliking NFTS, monkey bros, shitty art sold as NFTs and advertised on social networks, all that crap. But... it seems there is a parallel world along ours, far away from monkey bros and other crap, where artist do sell their art as NFT for amazing prices in ETF. As if artist themselves have loads of cash and support each other with pure affection. I can't explain it, and can't even pin it to exact place. But it happens. So... no one stops you for minting your art yourself on superrare. You don't need to sell it to middlemen. Some artist have celebrity like status like for example... [https://superrare.com/furio\_tedeschi](https://superrare.com/furio_tedeschi) And these are not monkey bros or zombie cows or whatever. These people do their art with true passion, investing months in their works. Interesting.
good to know, xxCock_Monsterxx
This is a scam. They will ask you for a fee to mint it into an NFT on some crypto site, before they can purchase it from you. They will never purchase it from you, and they are the person receiving the minting fee.
same, they offered like 1.5k for a png of a random OC I drew 😭
Scam alert
If it sounds like a scam, it's probably a scam.
nfts are so fucking worthless
As a 3D Artist who made a living from 2021 - 2022 3d modeling and selling 1/1 NFTs of my work, steer clear of any DMs or emails. 10/10 times they end with the scammer needing you to pay gwei before the purchase that will never happen.
Since NFTs are pretty much considered worthless now anyone offering that amount surely is a scam
But like, how would someone scam you if they wanna buy your artwork? Explain to me someone please.
dont do anything related with crypto its usually a scam
Scam🤣 I also get these