Oh man, it's so nice of someone to want to paint me off the back of one of my selfies!
And $500 is suspiciously generous! I'm sure there's nothing untoward going on here! Let's get some more information...
... paying by checks, you say? I'm sure that, since you have no idea what country I'm in or what bank I use and what checks they will or won't accept, you'll be cashing the check, and then sending me my cut. Right?
Oh, honey. That is not how that works. That is not how any of that works.
Well? Anything to say?
Gosh.
Folks, this looks like a double-whammy of phishing, and the bounced check/cheque scam. If I give them my name and email address, I'm sure they have some kind of scraper that trawls the web for everything registered using those details, and then they'd just try to brute force the passwords, as well as trying to access the email address itself.
The cheque boucning scam is quite a simple one: you sell A Thing. The scammer pays you using a cheque, but the cheque is for too much, so they say that's ok, rather than me write a new one, why not just cash it and send me the excess via bank transfer? So you do that, but when you cash a cheque, the balance shows as increased before the money has actually landed. If you send money out before being sure the cheque has cleared, you risk sending money that you don't have.
Block @autumnartistsworld on sight. Report them if you have the spoons.
And if someone offers you $500 just for the privilege of using your selfie as a reference? That is too good to be true, my loves.
Thanks to @kyra45 and @sleepingpeelz for already posting about this one!
