I recently got scammed by an avid poster on the DWS talent search. His goes by the name ?Josh Hoopes? and his posted email is magic_bella@yahoo.com and also by the email joshjoejosh@yahoo.com. With the help of a few fellow artist that he scammed we managed to find out this:
?He finds people who are looking for commissioned artists to do work for them, and he has them pay him making them think he's the artist. He then gets multiple artists involved to do the work, which he claims he does the work. I think he targets out of the US artist mostly, since most were from Argentina, Spain, Australia and Brazil.
He gets the work done by the color people or whatever and never pays them keeping the money and giving the art to the commissioners.
I was a commissioner, and 3 people came to me saying the work I posted was not Josh's work, but theirs, and one person proved it was theirs, which made Josh never contact me again, after I questioned him, and caught him with proof he never contacted me again.?
I was commissioned to ink 24 pages at $50 a page paid at the end of the 24 pages. I did 12 and found this information out. I demanded a contract and he drew up a bogus one but I still trusted him at this point. He dodged all my questions about the other artist involved. I did find out that "Josh Hoopes" has a criminal record if that is indeed his real name: https://services.saccourt.com/indexsear ... H,,4163310
and some more info about the cases:
http://law.onecle.com/california/penal/272.html
He told me his ?company? was ?Visionaries Comics? and the comics they were doing are ?Prairie Fire? and ?Sophia.? You can find out more info here: http://mirrorstewedios.deviantart.com/j ... /#comments
These are the pencils he gave me. I am asking for you help in finding the artist who did them so he can be informed if he doesn?t know already and to spread the word!. Any info is much appreciated....we are trying to put down this scammer!
