Greetings d’ART members.
This is a notice of an internet scam that has been proliferating lately. The scam works like this:
Someone contacts you offering a price for your artwork. If you accept, they offer to send you a check for an amount over your agreed upon price and for you to send/wire them the difference.
Here is an actual reply sent to a d’ART member:
Due to company policy this Payment has to be made out in this amount to you, because company policy only allows a refund payment on one Cashier Check, so you are required to deduct the cost of the piece which is $14,000USD when the payment gets to you and refund the balance of $8,000USD to our shipping agent via western union money transfer for him to be able to offset shipping charges. After payment has reached you and balance sent back to him, our agent would come, pick up title and take the piece to a prepaid shipper to be shipped to our client, while you send title papers and other necessary documents via FedEx courier services to our client.
This scam may be obvious to most, but we felt it necessary to alert our members.
Thank you for your patronage.
The staff at d’ART (Fine-Art.com)
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