I found this person on dA, which they were with very suspicious looking page...
This is what i got so far:
1. Joined 10hr ago
2. Posted multiple adoptables at the same time
3. No contact(social medias)
4. Spams art?
5. No watermak in any adoptable
6. Sells characters as a very suspicious price
Well, they're probably selling stolen characters.
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So i asked do they have any social medias, they said they have a twitter.. then i asked can ik what is it. After that they blocked me. I couldn't take a screenshot of it. But there you go:
Some comments of them are also suspicious:
They are also tracing wow:
Original
Traced:
Do NOT BUY FROM THEM!
Edit 2: WE DID IT!!!
Can confirm they actively block people and delete comments if you bring up anything.
Commented on their profile on them revealing their twitter and they quickly blocked me.
If they have the art skill to trace, they should have the brain power to realize they ended up picking a pop artist and can be easily found through searching. smh.
Here's responses I got that were also pretty off:
(link in question it kinda shows squat lol:
https://sta.sh/01lxer2xlg9z)
Hope this helps a little! <3
Kingfauna oof the style of the commission they uploaded is incredibly different from the artworks they have uploaded/stolen...
also they finally made a deviantart account, but never tweeted about it?
I'm sure it's much easier for them to sell the unused characters via twitter for real currency (considering the following they have) rather than for points on deviantart. Pretty sure they are asking for points because it cannot be chargebacked like paypal.
paeon Indeed lol, and it doesn't even show layers or anything either. And using points only as a means to scam and get away with it is unfortunately fairly common.
I had a spare 500 points I didn't mind throwing over to see if checking the "hq file" they sent would give any other indicator, but unfortunately it did not.
This is what I got back, it's basically the same size as the upload on Twitter and the additional piece the real Into__ did for this char was not included, double sus. They don't even ask for points via a commission widget or anything, another red flag. They'd benefit so much more (if they were the real into) to sell via twitter. A brand new DA is not beneficial.
I'm providing the file I "got" in hopes that someone who's better at sniffing it out might be able to use it for something? Who knows.
I did some TinEye searching last night on these exact adopts with someone else. We were super sus. TinEye brought back nothing though. I don't know GoogleFu to try to track down their username for any other red flags, but it's just... really weird.
If you reverse google image search the "how to draw hair" image, it literally pulls up the twitter post that's involved with it.
They didn't even do the full steps in english. lmaooo
oh no.. ;A; i was super excited to see into_'s art on dA that i didn't properly check their acc,,, obvious red flags everywhere lol
just wanted to know if anyone's contacted/warned people who've offered on fake into's adopts? since i don't want to spam anyone ;; and i speak quite a good bit of korean so i've sent into_ a dm on twitter with a heads up about this account!
thanks for making this PSA!! into_ has always been one of the artists i respect the most so this was really upsetting to find out :"0
Such a bummer, I was excited thinking I got a once in a lifetime deal with the adopt I liked hahahah good thing I didn't trust and investigated further