#deviantart scam

Hey guys, you might wanna watch out for comments like these

I've already got two comments on one of my mature JJBA drawings by two different accounts claiming to be "ArtControl". I clicked and the opening text seems to be Russian before switching to English to tell me to tell them that I'm human, but backed out immediately lol

Received this on deviantart:

"I recently had the chance to read your story [Shadow and Light] on DeviantArt, and I was truly impressed by it. The depth of your storytelling and unique style really stood out to me, and it sparked an idea—I’d love to explore the possibility of turning your story into a comic!" -bla bla bla-

LOOOL

So "Shadow and Light" is a SONG!

Proof thoses scammers don't even really read your work. They just see a litterature work, take the title and lick your boots in hope they can scam. (I've got like a hundred of similar messages in a month, with my actual stories titles, but I never accepted, I can recognize a scam when I see one)

That's simple, anyone sending me something about a comic from now on while simply be immediately marked as spam and blocked.

Same with NTF, by the way.

I do hope I do get my account back from those hackers though. If not, I may either have to leave DA as @masonicon's been trying to encourage me to or consider making a new account on there and start all over from scratch.

Luckily for me a lot of my art and fanfics, not all, but alot, had been on my Tumblr blogs, FF.Net, Wattpad, Pixiv, Crypt Drive, AO3, and to some extent Pillowfort and my folders for a good number of years so I can just repost those on there if it comes down to it. I've been meaning to clean out some of my outdated art I don't wanna look at anyways.

As well as some of my OC profiles and drawings, those are the most important. Don't worry about the NSF_Ws though, they're also in my folders and Pixiv, they're safe.

Good news everyone, DA Staff finally responded after 8 days of waiting and told me they restored my email address(had to change my password 'cause the old one got compromised, obviously). And thankfully there's was no damage done to my account or my DMs, the scammer probably abandoned it after I told him I don't have PayPal.

I don't want you guys to panic for me, but I think I messed up, not over a troll or anything, but I really screwed the pooch this time.

You know how I'm not supposed to talk to scammers on DA?

Well I think I fell for a DA user who's account was hacked, they claimed that they reported my account thinking it was spam, they told me to do this and that to save it from suspension(or worse) and now I can't get back on DA after talking to someone on Discord even though I stopped using it.

Here's a user on Tumblr who went through something similar last year(OP recovered her account BTW) to give you an idea of what happened: