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    The document warns about scam websites selling stolen artwork on shirts without the artist's permission. It notes that the low-quality prints may not arrive and credit card information could be stolen. Several signs of these art scams are described, including positive posts without store links, fake user comments asking for the store, and links that actually lead to profile pages with the store link. The sites often look similar and use the same phone number, despite changing domain names to avoid detection.

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    The document warns about scam websites selling stolen artwork on shirts without the artist's permission. It notes that the low-quality prints may not arrive and credit card information could be stolen. Several signs of these art scams are described, including positive posts without store links, fake user comments asking for the store, and links that actually lead to profile pages with the store link. The sites often look similar and use the same phone number, despite changing domain names to avoid detection.

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    SCAM

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    Milon FF Four
    The document warns about scam websites selling stolen artwork on shirts without the artist's permission. It notes that the low-quality prints may not arrive and credit card information could be stolen. Several signs of these art scams are described, including positive posts without store links, fake user comments asking for the store, and links that actually lead to profile pages with the store link. The sites often look similar and use the same phone number, despite changing domain names to avoid detection.

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    #SCAM SCAM SCAM

    #⚠️ Do NOT buy anything that's linked in the comments of posts. ⚠️


    There are exceptions of course. It's certainly possible that someone bought a shirt
    online and wants to share it here and link to a legit store. But be discrete. 99%
    of the time, a "source" linked is a scam website that will provide low quality
    prints, or in worse case not deliver anything or even use a phishing paying page.

    #FAQ
    **Why shouldn't I buy these shirts?**

    ^For ^a ^few ^reasons:

    * The art that’s printed on these is STOLEN art. Sometimes the artist sells prints
    themselves (i.e. Redbubble.com) and these guy sell them illegally and the original
    artist does NOT get any money from these sales.

    * Because it’s stolen art, they don’t have the original image files, which leads to
    a low-quality print. In some cases, there’s even still a watermark visible on the
    product page

    * There’s no guarantee that you will even receive the shirt

    * Some sites even use fake pay-pages (i.e. phising Paypal) to steal your login
    credentials or creditcard info.

    * Various of these sites have abuse reports registered.

    * Dozens of theft-reports can be found online when searching on their phone-number


    (855-999-7840)

    * If you mail their support e-mail address, you will get an “Undelivered”
    notification, indicating the the e-mail does not exist

    **How can I recognize these scams?**

    ^These ^art ^scammers ^work ^in ^a ^very ^recognizable ^way:

    They post a picture on a Reddit fandom. Titles like “Got this in the mail
    today”, or “I made this S H I R T”.
    The post from OP itself does not link to any other store/shop
    The thread begins to fill with various comments including asking where to get
    the print. These can come from legitimate users and some from alt-accounts of the
    scammer(s)
    A comment reply appears linking to the spam shop/store (e.g. “In case anyone
    still want this”). This can be from the OP or another fake alt-account
    The link is usually an URL-shorter or leads elsewhere such as their own user-
    profile, twitter account which then has a link to the store.
    99% of the time the print shop is a website that’s created with the platform
    GearLaunch (Seen by the powered by GearLaunch on the bottom of the site). They
    create different sites on new names every time to stay anonymous, but other than
    the logo, the websites all look exactly the same. They always use the same phone-
    number for the last 2 years (855-999-7840)
    Any comments that warn about scam are downvoted by these scammers to get these
    comments hidden

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