Does anybody have experience with (selling) NFT art?
Yesterday I was contacted via Pixelfed by a person who is claiming to be an art collector/dealer, she wrote that she wanted to buy four photos by me as an NFT for 10 (!!!) Ether.
I think that’s a scam, but I didn’t know much about NFT art, and so I had a closer look at it. I have the impression that it might be worth a try, especially if I want to do something with my photos except sharing them on Pixelfed.
But it might not be easy to actually sell NFT, even more difficult than selling stock photography. Even though I have almost 4000 followers on Fediverse, that does not necessarily mean that they are will to give out money for something like that…
That’s a fairly common scam. Haven’t looked into it as such, so I don’t know how and at which point exactly they’ll extract money from you, but they will try.
As for NFTs, I think that ship has mostly sailed, but you could try setting up an account on one of the legitimate marketplaces and see what happens.
Yea, sure its a scam. I just dont know how the scam is supposed to work. I asked the lady, if shes even one, why she would pay so much money for works by a realtively unknown photographer, and she didnt answer.
My guess would be that at some point they would ask for money with the pretext of “facilitating the transaction”, ask you to set up an account on a site of their choosing which would then ask for your credit card data to “verify your identity”, etc.
These scams are getting more and more elaborate, and can trap people who are otherwise smart, security-conscious, and reasonably suspicious. The general strategy is to fatigue the user by making him/her click through multiple webpages. Usually the first one does not ask for money, but after having completed five forms, the user is invested in the process and wants to complete it.
I think being paranoid is the only way. I recently left my card wallet in a famous London venue. They had the wallet and said they’d post for free but the guy on the phone said because they’re a charity, he’d send me a link to make a voluntary donation. I said sure and no link came in the end but I wouldn’t have clicked it anyway. I made a donation directly on their website.
In this situation I would just disable & reorder all my debit cards anyway, especially if they don’t always ask for TFA for online purchases. (Of course recovering IDs is useful.)
Yes, good point. I froze them as soon as realised I’d lost the wallet (after about a week because normally I pay by phone…) and there are no suspicious transactions but maybe I should just get new cards now. Thanks
What my bank told me is that criminals now just sell card data on the dark web, it is not used immediately, but maybe a few months later, usually for amounts that do not trigger pin check/TFA.
Possibly But I have the benefit of having gone through this in the last month.
Long story short: a family member (who is computer-savvy, reasonably suspicious, streetwise, well-educated, etc) got an e-mail about a provider not being able to deduct a subscription fee due to an expired credit card. The e-mail address was actually convincing, and so was the webpage, so the credit card details were duly entered. No deductions.
Where the scammers tripped up was that they sent out multiple subsequent e-mails, resulting in the person contacting the support of the service (“it is already paid, why do you keep bugging me?”). They had no clue so they asked for the original e-mail, which was then identified as not coming from them. This was the point where I got involved, disabled the card, talked to the bank, etc.
Well doesnt it depend on if you are a buyer or a seller?
I tend to think… giving out hundrends of bucks for a digital picture might be risky… but for the seller that might be different?
I mean sure the whole idea is kind of ridiculous because digital art can be easly reproduced and so its not an „original“, its nothing like analog painting or so. But if a seller actually can sell and make money, they are pragmatic and dont care about the rest? Let the buyers be stupid…
On the other hand, there is also the risk that a buyer uses the picture in an illegal way…
Traditional art has alway been capitalist, at least for the past centuries, and is closely linked to capitalism. Capitalism produced people like Rembrandt or Rothko.
Its not only a bad thing.
If there was at least a 10% chance that the offer is legitimate I would consider going for it, for similar reasons. But given that this is very likely to be a scam, you will probably end up wasting time. But ultimately it is your choice.
No no, I will not do any „business“ with that person. I just thought about trying it in general, not in connection with that person. I thought about putting some „community edition“ nfts on polygon. If that goes well, I could think about going to ethereum. I mean selling things on ethereum is not exactly cheap, according to my research.
But I have the benefit of having gone through this in the last month.