Arts and Crafts

Hello fellow creators!

Please beware of this scam going around! They’re targeting artists of all sorts, like people trying to get into the games industry, movie industry, small artists, sculptors and more.

It’s a job scam that sends a fake, but very believable, job listing for a remote job from often a well known company (Riot Games, Gameloft Games, IMDB, etc.) for an art job such as “2D/3D Artist” saying they saw your portfolio on ArtStation or something similar. They’ll say to contact them through Telegram but it’s a scam! Don’t do it. The base of the scam is they’ll tell you they have a job and will pay you for tools but that you need to buy the tools from their “vendor” and they’ll reimburse you. This is a lie, there is no vendor and no job, they’re just taking your money and running.

ArtStation made a post HERE (https://magazine.artstation.com/2020/12/scam-watchavoiding-remote-job-scams/) that has a lot of good info, including info on reporting it and the details of the scam.  Please beware this scam trying to prey on desperate people trying to get a job in their desired field during the pandemic.

Please share this info and pass it to other creators so no one falls for this shit!

Below is an example email of this scam that was send to a friend of mine who fortunately was savvy and noticed it was a scam. They gave me permission to share the email with their personal information removed. Note the portion about telegram and the suspicious email ([company][year]@gmail.com) that are real telling that this is a scam.