Ok, so this post is gonna be a bit different from my usual posts, it's a rant/warning post!
So, about a week ago, I received a comment on a post of mine asking me if I do commissions and to write a DM if I am, in fact, available for commissions. The account I got this message from was @secretparable.
While I had never done commissions before, I was open to the idea and luckily I was also cautious about it being a scam! After looking up the account with a quick search and not finding anything except the account itself, which seemed to be pretty new but not unused, I decided to contact them and after a few discussions I accepted the commission.
As stated before, I was pretty cautious about this being a scam, so I luckily gave away none of my information and when talking about payment I suggested I would send an invoice to their information, as soon as I gave them a prove of concept. After these payment conditions were accepted, I started working on my sketches, the aforementioned proof of concept!
Skip to yesterday, when I was supposed to show the sketches: the whole chat is gone, the original comment is gone, all our interactions gone. So I type @secretparable into the search to see if I can find the account and potentially contact them about the commission, thinking (read: hoping) that this might just be a technical issue. This time, the search results show more, none of them good!
First, I get shown a couple of posts about being careful to not get scammed by fake commissions, which I guess this might've been an attempt at, but the account @secretparable was not directly mentioned. In fact, the account itself didn't show up at all, confirming my fear that it had been deleted and I put in the work for nothing, but that wasn't even the last or worst of it!
The next thing I see is multiple posts mentioning @secretparable in relation to another artist, @nia1sworld . It seems I got off pretty good, all things considered, because while I just lost a bit of my time to this whole thing, @nia1sworld got some gross and creepy texts from the same account.
Tldr: got a commission request, the commissioning account was deleted before the commission was finished and paid and it turns out they had been harassing another artist
So this is just a shout-out: be careful about the commissions you accept, don't give your information to strangers (especially if they won't give you theirs either) and if someone's harassing you in any way shape or form: report them, block them and if you deem it necessary: warn others about them!
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