Someone contacted me on Discord and commissioned an artwork
Everything seemed fine at first we agreed on the price, payment terms (100% payment after 50% completion), discussed the concept, and set deadlines
I completed about half of the work and requested payment. After a while, I received an email claiming that the payment had been sent
I was about to check and withdraw the money, but then I noticed that no funds had actually arrived in my PayPal account. I took a closer look at the email and realized it wasn’t sent from an official PayPal address
In general, any messages like receipts, payment confirmations, or emails can be verified for example, by checking them with ChatGPT, which can easily help identify whether something is a scam
By that time, I had already completed around 60–70% of the artwork, so I decided to finish it anyway