one_two's sketchbook

[one_two]

Good day, guys and girls! Had almost been scammed by somebody on Instagram a month ago. Some woman contacted me saying she likes my work and wants me to comission 7 "drawings" of her family members on A4 paper. Her profile seemed ok, had posts, nothing unusual. She sent me some shitty photos of her family which i later had to upscale. Was very eager to make a payment and said she could only pay via Binance because her Paypal doesn't work for some reason. I don't know how Binance scams work and what can be done with a users ID. I have a Binance account by the way. I agreed to paint the portraits but didn't want to rush with the payment until i was done with the job. She offered 100 dollars for each painting, 14 overall. So i took the job and was steadily painting these random people from photos which where probably stolen from strangers FB profiles. I finished 4 portraits, sent them to my "client", got a "Ow that's wonderfull" and today i find out that the profile is deleted or frozen. Probably she or he was tired of waiting until i ask for the payment and decided that the juice isn't worth the squeeze.
In a way it's good she contacted me because otherwise I wouldn't do as much as I have done in the previous month. I started painting better with oils and figured out some things I wasn't aware of. I've done 12 portraits and was painting a 13th. Most of them aren't finished but it was a good experience nonetheless.
By the way I've been contacted by 4 people, her included that wanted to either buy my work or comission something. All of them turned out to be scammers, the profiles have been deactivated of frozen.