Scams

Scams aren’t limited to NFTs. Here are some Common Scams for Artists to Avoid in the Online World that have been doing the rounds for as long as we have had the Internet.
If you are an artist with an online presence, it is likely some (or all) of these scams will find their way to you at some point.

The advent of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) has revolutionised the art industry, providing artists with unprecedented opportunities to tokenise and monetise their digital creations. There are certainly pros and cons to working with NFTs (environmental impact being just one) and they may be more suited to some artist’s practice than to others.

Irrespective of the pros and cons, one thing we have all seen is the rise of NFT scams. Artists who have never considered creating NFTs (and those who have) getting cold call comments in their Instagram DMs asking to buy their art as an NFT (even though they don’t already create NFTs). Frequently wondering is this real and then spending valuable time trying to learn about NFTs.

So what’s that all about?