Design Scammer PSA

Posted 2 years, 9 months ago (Edited 2 years, 9 months ago) by AgentCheshire


Just wanted to make a post about a scammer that myself and several others had recently dealt with. It should be obvious but don’t go harassing the person in question (though they’ve deleted/deactivated most of their social media by now so it’d be hard for you to anyway). I am simply making this so that others are aware should they come back and try to scam again.


They go/went by luniwko on all the sites we were able to find them active on: Deviantart (deactivated), Fur Affinity (deleted/deactivated), Instagram (last post is from 2020), and YCH Commishes (potentially still active).

What they did was sell the same designs to multiple different people. Running an auction on DA, FA, and YCH Commishes but linking none of them, treating them all as separate auctions but for the same design. Below I have archived their DA and FA posts showing that there were people who had purchased the designs previously on DA only for them to continue to sell the design on FA to other unwitting buyers. I’m sharing these both as proof and so you can be familiar with this art style so if you see this art style come up again selling characters then be weary at the least.

Archived FA (you should still be able to click through the image links)

https://web.archive.org/web/20210603014431/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.furaffinity.net%2Fgallery%2Fluniwko%2F

Archived DA (links might be weird but should still be able to click through them as well)
https://web.archive.org/web/20210603014814/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.deviantart.com%2Fluniwko%2Fgallery

If you can't click through on DA then the posts are still up, you just can't get to them through the account but if you have a link you should still be able to click through most of the gallery through the “see more from this artist” section off to the side
https://www.deviantart.com/luniwko/art/ADOPT-AUCTION-OPEN-881395365

YCH Commishes 
https://ych.commishes.com/user/luniwko

Auctions I was able to find:
https://ych.commishes.com/auction/show/TME2/adopt-auction-open/
https://ych.commishes.com/auction/show/TME1/adopt-auction-open/

https://ych.commishes.com/auction/show/TMDR/adopt-auction-open/


When confronted about this via notes instead of talking with us they deleted everything and deactivated their accounts. 

Nevermind, they stole the art too. So add art thief to that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Luniwko if you happen to read this, I want you to know that you have very cute and nice art (assuming it is your art), and that you don’t need to scam and trick people to make money off of it. All I can really do is hope you come back to apologize and refund the people you scammed. You can turn this around and become a legitimate design seller, you just have to own up to what you did. 





glittiewings

as someone who regularly use ych.comm, i can say that a seller is able to place bids under their own name, which is generally seen as them having received a bid off-site. luniwko doesn't do that, which backs up your claims of them selling three versions of one design.

if youre able to find more concrete proof of them scamming and stealing art, i'd recommend sending ych.comm an email, or reporting the listings individually!! while i don't have personal experiences of getting scammed, my gf has, and the mods did enter the chat with them and told them that the seller had sold stolen designs, though they weren't sure if the design my gf bought was stolen, but still suggested we did a chargeback! i've also seen listings who got marked with potential art theft being at least hidden from the search results, so whoever bought the designs on ych.comm should get a message about the situation too!!