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Back in December, a young man walked into one of the fine art galleries that represent my photographs and engaged the gallery owner in a conversation about some of my prints. He seemed to be familiar with my work, said that his girlfriend was actually a fan, and remarked that he had been thinking of buying her a piece.

A photographer and video producer has suffered a huge financial loss after receiving bags of white powder instead of a Sony Alpha 7 IV worth $3,000 (£2,400).

A couple says they were scammed by a wedding photographer who used stock images as his portfolio and delivered blurry photos of their big day.

A young photographer was scammed on Instagram by a fraudulent art buyer who wanted to purchase her prints.

Leitz Cine, a "sister company" of Leica, has issued a warning to customers that a "scammer organization" has purchased a domain name similar to the official company website and could attempt to contact them via email impersonating official employees.

The FBI raided the home of a gallery owner who is accused of cheating clients out of more than 100 rare fine art photographs, including prints by famed landscape photographer Ansel Adams, worth an estimated $1.6 million.

Until earlier this week, Walmart was offering what appeared to be an incredible deal: a portable SSD available in a variety of sizes from 500GB up to 30TB for as little as $18. The product was, perhaps obviously, a scam.

An Australian celebrity fell foul of a nasty scam by a criminal group pretending to be a Palestinian photographer.

The FBI issued a warning that a rising number of scammers are using deepfake technology to impersonate job candidates during interviews for remote positions.

Fake videos of Elon Musk created by cyber scammers have been published on YouTube for the purpose of defrauding unsuspecting victims and the video platform has been criticized for failing to tackle the problem.

A long-running scam targets frustrated Canon printer owners who are looking for the right drivers. They find themselves on fake customer service websites that lure them into handing over cash or even control of their computers.

A Swedish photography magazine was recently contacted by lawyers who claimed that a photo it downloaded from the free photo service Pixabay violated a client's copyright. But it turned out the law firm and the client were both fake, and the real photographer had never uploaded it to Pixabay either.

What would you do for this check? I'm photographer Dave Koch, and this is the story of how my real estate photography business was recently targeted by a fake check scammer.

Nikon has issued a warning that scammers are impersonating Nikon Public Relations to YouTube and Facebook channel owners. Nikon says that these emails have no relation to Nikon or its affiliates.

Enric Sala is a former university professor who quit academia to become a National Geographic photographer and Explorer in Residence to help save Earth's oceans. His name is strangely also at the center of a scam targeting photographers.

A group of scammers is reportedly abusing Instagram's protections against self-harm and impersonation and will target and ban nearly any Instagram account they want seemingly at will. Anyone can pay for the "ban-as-a-service," and it costs as little as $5.

Instagram gives its users a sense of trust with people behind huge, popular accounts. One such photographer did not deliver on what he had promised and left his audience burned, with cash out of pocket, unfulfilled print sales, and in legal limbo.

A "vintage" bag company is being accused of scamming would-be product photographers. Vintage Bags Global apparently offered one photographer $1,250 to take five photos of a bag and the only requirement was that he pay $14 in shipping, something he points to as a "red flag."

A Fort Worth special events venue has become the center of a classic fake check scam, this time aimed at local North Texas photographers. Unsuspecting photographers are told they have been hired to shoot an event at Fort Worth Country Memories when no such event has been booked.

The StarScope Monocular is advertised as both a hand-held scope and incredible zoom lens for smartphones accompanied by some rather unbelievable performance claims. Krazy Ken of YouTube Channel Computer Clan first looks at the ads and dissects the promises before putting the scope to the test himself.

A number of well-known National Geographic photographers have been targeted by an elaborate, high-value scam that involves an invitation to a fake event hosted by a women's charity that doesn't actually exist.

It seems that there's a new dangerous email making the rounds that is masquerading as a copyright infringement takedown request sent by an angry photographer. Fall for it, and your computer could become infected with some kind of malware.

I'm photographer Jay P. Morgan from The Slanted Lens. In this video and article, I'll share with you an actual photoshoot fraud case and what to look for so that you don’t get taken by a fraudulent scam like it.

Heads up, photographers (and content publishers): scammers are apparently now changing the copyright ownership data on Wikipedia photographs in order to trick people who use the photos legally.

A well-known photography scam is making the rounds again, attempting to prey on desperate photographers who have been out of work during the COVID-19 pandemic. If you receive a suspicious request from a potential "client," followed by "overpayment" of your fee, don't fall for it!