If you have an art account in instagram, be careful with accounts that have a random name with a 1340 at the end, one of them commented in one of my photos
i was excited to be noticed and that someone wanted to share my art with credit so i clicked their link and submitted one pic, and also gave them my e-mail address, they told me that my art may not be published soon since they have to much requests, which i think was reasonable, and an hour later i received this
I got even more excited when i saw this e-mail, nothing bad passed trough my mind about it at that time, until i clicked the link and read how i’m supposed to participate
It confused me, if the magazine is advertisement based why do i have to forcefully pay suc, NON-REFUNDABLE price for submitting something that MAY BE published, specifically if their target audience are almost unknown artist and the magazine isn’t even a recognizable one. So i googled it and i found out that i wasn’t the only one:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/scamart-magazine-greg-lipman#pulse-comments-comment-urn:li:comment:(article:7141867438127829137,6360082804780331008)
the same story, started with a comment in, IG then they mail you and tell you about the contest and try to sreal your money, some of them said they were sending them DMs till the point it was kind of annoyin.
Another thing i just searched was that there are a lot of instagram accounts that ended up with the number 1340 and only like 2 of them weren’t related to the magazine
why are there so many accounts for the same magazine? i don’t get it, and the magazine is the one that says that the employees only talk to you through IG or private mail, that means they are part of it, but idk it may be that someone used their identity to steal from others, anyway, i just wanted to share this and please reblog this so one else falls of into this scam, thank you for reading.