This is a typical NFT scam, intending to convince greedy gullible "artists" to pay hundreds of dollars on "specialized" NFT sites, to register their "art" as a prerequisite for these promised sales

Why hundreds of dollars? I've heard of amounts as low as $10.

Quote from: stoker2014 on January 07, 2024, 04:54

Quote from: Zero Talent on January 06, 2024, 19:51

This is a typical NFT scam, intending to convince greedy gullible "artists" to pay hundreds of dollars on "specialized" NFT sites, to register their "art" as a prerequisite for these promised sales

Why hundreds of dollars? I've heard of amounts as low as $10.

You missed the point. Scammers don't scam with legit sites. They have their own.
They prey on greedy, ignorant and gullible victims.

Why are they scammers? This does not follow from your first post. No one is asking you to spend hundreds of dollars. You can do this for a few dollars.

They will ask you to "register" your "art" with their website.

You didn't write this in your first post.
It would be good if you published here the entire letter that you received.
 

Zero Talent, maybe I didn�t understand something, let other authors correct me here. But in my opinion, you yourself refuse 2500 dollars for each image. 

Quote from: stoker2014 on January 07, 2024, 10:52

Zero Talent, maybe I didn�t understand something, let other authors correct me here. But in my opinion, you yourself refuse 2500 dollars for each image. 

Lol. As I said, you don't think it through.
You are one of those gullible "artists", whose ego, greed and ignorance these scammers are preying on.

Even if your initial gullible reaction was to believe the honesty of that "offer", insisting to believe it after I gave you 2 links describing in detail how the scam works (there are more), is only another proof of your stubbornness and refusal to change your mind, no matter what evidence you are faced with.

No surprise. You are already well known for refusing to acknowledge any facts contradicting your preconceptions, even when the reality is screaming in your face.

When the next Nigerian Prince will ask you for help to save his fortune, go for it!

Zero Talent, stop campaigning for Democrats in all topics! 
Yes, you provided links to several private stories. Perhaps your case is also fraudulent, but you haven�t checked it. Either you write that your videos are sold for more than $1,000, or you write about fraud. You decide for yourself whether your photos are worth that kind of money or not. 
As for the NFT market, it is near $100 billion. You won�t believe it, but besides scammers, there is a real market, deals, money. 

Quote from: Zero Talent on January 07, 2024, 11:32

Quote from: stoker2014 on January 07, 2024, 10:52

Zero Talent, maybe I didn�t understand something, let other authors correct me here. But in my opinion, you yourself refuse 2500 dollars for each image. 

Lol. As I said, you don't think it through.
You are one of those gullible "artists", whose ego, greed and ignorance these scammers are preying on.

Even if your initial gullible reaction was to believe the honesty of that "offer", insisting to believe it after I gave you 2 links describing in detail how the scam works (there are more), is only another proof of your stubbornness and refusal to change your mind, no matter what evidence you are faced with.

No surprise. You are already well known for refusing to acknowledge any facts contradicting your preconceptions, even when the reality is screaming in your face.

When the next Nigerian Prince will ask you for help to save his fortune, go for it!

Zero Talent, stop campaigning for Democrats in all topics! 
Yes, you provided links to several private stories. Perhaps your case is also fraudulent, but you haven�t checked it. Either you write that your videos are sold for more than $1,000, or you write about fraud. You decide for yourself whether your photos are worth that kind of money or not. 
As for the NFT market, it is near $100 billion. You won�t believe it, but besides scammers, there is a real market, deals, money. 

Yes, you didn't understand. And that's Ok.
The problem is that even now, when you were presented clear examples, you insist in believing that the "offer" was genuine.
Yes, it was as genuine as the "offers" made by that famous Nigerian Prince.
I'm sorry, but those like you deserve to be scammed. Maybe this is the only way to learn a lesson, if common sense and logic are not good enough.

Fyi, I asked the scammer for more details ("please tell me more"), but my email was probably too succint and didn't match the gullibility pattern the scammer was after, so there was no follow up.

Remember that these are photos not videos. And yes, when you get $300 for a video on SS rest assured that the buyer paid 3 to 4 times more for it (depending on your level).

I wonder where you saw any reference to the Democrats in this thread. This must only be in your head. Maybe "delirium", as you said it yourself to others, when they asked you to face inconvenient truths.

Lastly, I already told you that I will happily vote for true old school republicans like Nikki Haley or Chris Christie, instead of Biden. Unfortunatelly they stand no chance in front of the overwhelming maga majority, and I will certainly never get this chance.

As always, you don't pay attention to facts contradicting your preconceptions.

PS. For gullible and stubborn individuals like you, I recommend this podcast: https://darknetdiaries.com/. The "pig butchering" scam (last episode) is also an interesting one.

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As for the NFT market, it is near $100 billion. You won�t believe it, but besides scammers, there is a real market, deals, money. 

irrelevant - no one claimed there was no profit in NFT

successful NFT come from those with means to advertise & promote. 

i know it's useless to ask you this, but please show ONE successful NFT from a stock image.

legitimate NFT are comparable to self-hosted sites - they wither without substantial SEO investment & other marketing

then, there are the 'legitimate' scammers willing to  bilk their own followers, such as an indicted ex-president

Former President Donald Trump has made between $100,001 and $1 million in income from NFTs, his new financial disclosure showed.

Trump last year announced his first NFT collection, a series of $99 digital �trading cards� featuring cartoon drawings of him in various heroic postures and outfits.  {my emphasis}

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/14/trump-made-a-bundle-of-cash-selling-nfts-financial-filings-show.html

What is the deception, fraud and why are indicted?

Fyi, I asked the scammer for more details ("please tell me more"), but my email was probably too succint and didn't match the gullibility pattern the scammer was after, so there was no follow up.

Now your topic can be considered clear. This is the phrase you should have started with. 

Zero Talent, you write a lot of flood. 

Quote from: cascoly on January 07, 2024, 15:01

Quote from: stoker2014 on January 07, 2024, 13:55

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As for the NFT market, it is near $100 billion. You won�t believe it, but besides scammers, there is a real market, deals, money. 

irrelevant - no one claimed there was no profit in NFT

successful NFT come from those with means to advertise & promote. 

i know it's useless to ask you this, but please show ONE successful NFT from a stock image.

legitimate NFT are comparable to self-hosted sites - they wither without substantial SEO investment & other marketing

The Fine Art America website is not only a stock image. I don�t even know if there is a stock image on this site. 

more obfuscation & ignorance (why am i not surprised?)

first, i asked you to show any stock image that had been successful as NFT as you implied, which you avoided by answering with a non sequitur

second, there are many, many hundreds of stock images on FAA - all of mine are (about 1500) and there are many others on both FAA &FB groups who do both

Quote from: stoker2014 on January 07, 2024, 17:04

Quote from: cascoly on January 07, 2024, 15:01

Quote from: stoker2014 on January 07, 2024, 13:55

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As for the NFT market, it is near $100 billion. You won�t believe it, but besides scammers, there is a real market, deals, money. 

irrelevant - no one claimed there was no profit in NFT

successful NFT come from those with means to advertise & promote. 

i know it's useless to ask you this, but please show ONE successful NFT from a stock image.

legitimate NFT are comparable to self-hosted sites - they wither without substantial SEO investment & other marketing

The Fine Art America website is not only a stock image. I don�t even know if there is a stock image on this site. 

more obfuscation & ignorance (why am i not surprised?)

first, i asked you to show any stock image that had been successful as NFT as you implied, which you avoided by answering with a non sequitur

second, there are many, many hundreds of stock images on FAA - all of mine are (about 1500) and there are many others on both FAA &FB groups who do both

1. I don't know what images Zero Talent sells on this site. He didn't provide any links to them. These may not be stock images.
2. This site has a lot of artwork that can be sold as an NFT.
3. This is not a stock site.
4. You are asking a question to which you yourself do not know the answer.
 

Quote from: stoker2014 on January 08, 2024, 03:51

1. I don't know what images Zero Talent sells on this site. He didn't provide any links to them. These may not be stock images.

I already told you that ALL my FAA photos are also sold on ALL my stock sites.
Cascoly told you the same.

But you are stubborn and unwilling to change your prejudices, even when confronted with evidence screaming in your face. We already established that.

You can easily do a reverse search on many FAA photos and discover them on stock sites, but you are not willing to listen.

See below another example from a different contributor, selling his stock photos on FAA.

1. I was having a discussion with Cascoly, not with you.
2. I wrote to him about the time when you had not yet written what you were selling and explained the meaning of my posts.
3. Your opinion may be subjective regarding the artistic value of your photos.
 

I've gotten a few of these types of scam attempts recently.

The first was someone on Instagram who wanted to buy one of my works to use as a reference photo for an NFT for $1,000. I was extremely skeptical since they could purchase a stock photo extended license for far less, but since she had actually singled out the work she wanted, and sent me a couple of messages, I agreed to take a look at the proposed contract, in the hope that I was wrong. As soon as I read the "contract," I knew my misgivings had been correct. It purported to make me responsible for upfront costs, which they'd "cover" by sending me more than the $1,000 price for use of the image - a big red flag - your bank can "cash" a check for you based on your own balance covering it, only to discover several days later that it has actually bounced, meanwhile the contract required me to be responsible for various costs on a very tight timeline - before the time it would take to discover a check or credit card payment was actually no good. I politely declined her offer.

I've gotten DMs on twitter too asking if my work is for sale - when it's clear from any link that it is, followed by "I'd love to buy it as an NFT" - without specifying a specific work - another big red flag. I just respond politely that my work is not available as an NFT. I probably shouldn't waste my time responding at all but since I've had individuals, publishers and galleries contact me out of the blue who were legitimately interested in showing, licensing or buying my work, on the off chance that my cynicism has made me assume a legitimate inquirer is a scammer, I always respond politely even when I'm saying "no."

Since NFTs require you to spend money up front, they seem like the perfect way for a scammer to get your money. And if they offer to pay for the NFT costs up front and then send you more than needed, requiring you to repay the difference, or pay others, well, that's just a reworking of an old photo scam from the early 2000's. 

@ZeroTalent  Thanks for bringing this to people's attention - that some here don't believe you is a testament to how scammers stroke photographer's egos and why conmen have been succeeding for eons. It's easy for me to spot a bogus "contract" but I practiced law in NYC for over a decade. It's also easy to understand how much we want an offer to buy our work to be legit - I actually agreed to look at the "contract" even though I really knew deep down that it would be bogus. Human nature. Now I just politely decline so as not to waste my time.

I'd worry too if they are sending you to their own bitcoin site, that they can get more than whatever costs you're paying upfront, since this might give them private banking info? It could wipe you out, and my understanding is that none of this stuff is traceable.

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