Just a word of warning, I received this email the other day-
“Good Evening
The images on your website are so fascinating and so vivacious, looking at each piece of work i can easily see that you added so much dedication in making each work come out to life unfortunately i lost the website where i first saw your work but i was able to save your email address.I am writing you because i need your assistant to get back to your website so as to be able to retrieve the details of your work that interest men or send me images of some of your new works.
Thanks
Larry”
Luckily I’d seen warnings of scammers targeting artists going around beforehand so I was wary but replied with a link to my website while I googled to find out who this guy was.
My googling bought me to this website which made it clear to me that the whole thing was a con. I’ve just come home from work to someone from Nigeria spending 20 minutes on my website and a list of ‘paintings’ that he would like to buy. At least bother to get the medium right, I don’t use paint for anything!
I’ve sent him a quite an unpleasant email as a reply letting him know I’m on to him and to not contact again. He emailed me through the address Larry Douez larrydouez@yahoo.ca but the same scam is going round from a variety of names.
Remember fellow artists. Keep safe and use caution!
Thanks for this, I had the same communication with “Larry Douez” a week ago, but hadn’t found any references to his name on google until your post. Again, he referred to my ‘paintings’ (I am not a painter), and my site was accessed from Lagos.
I experienced something very similar last year with someone calling themselves “Roderick Mackerel”, who wrote in a very similar tone and had basically the same approach.
You’re welcome. I thought I’d post this so that anyone else who was contacted had somewhere they could get information from when they googled his name and so far I’ve had a fair few visitors who’ve found me by searching. So seems he’s pretty busy buying lots of ‘paintings’!