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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: GBF on June 27, 2016, 10:41:51 AM

Title: "Denis Neagle
Post by: GBF on June 27, 2016, 10:41:51 AM
Has anybody else had a denis Neagle contact them to  buy art
It looks dodgy to me

This is what I received

Hello

   I just found you online now through Google,please do you sell your works directly?,and if you do can i make a direct purchase from you?,thanks so much and i really look forward to hearing from you soonest

Regards

Denis

Regards George
Title: Re: "Denis Neagle
Post by: Paul Hannaby on June 27, 2016, 11:54:37 AM
It could be genuine or it could be yet another scam so proceed with caution! A lot of the scams seem to include shipping by the customer's shipping agent, which always rings alarm bells with me. This one appears suspicious because most people will be enquiring about a specific item.

If you know what you're looking for, you can often use the email headers to identify where an email was sent from. In the past I have used that to confirm my suspicions.
Title: Re: "Denis Neagle
Post by: GBF on June 27, 2016, 06:03:54 PM
Hi Paul

I told him I do not do post sales I did not feel comfortable about it.

Regards George
Title: Re: "Denis Neagle
Post by: Dom R on April 26, 2017, 03:24:24 PM
Just as  a follow up on 'Denis Neagle'.
My wife, a basketmaker, got an email from 'Denis Neagle' enquiring about direct sales a day or so ago.
Looks like a scam so I googles and found this thread, also a few more recent comments on a facebook page suggesting it probably is a scam.
So if anyone else stumbles upon this thread be alert to enquiries like this, I'm pretty sure it's dodgy.
Title: Re: "Denis Neagle
Post by: Les Symonds on April 26, 2017, 05:10:23 PM
Quote from: GBF on June 27, 2016, 10:41:51 AM
Has anybody else had a denis Neagle contact them to  buy art
It looks dodgy to me

This is what I received

Hello

   I just found you online now through Google,please do you sell your works directly?,and if you do can i make a direct purchase from you?,thanks so much and i really look forward to hearing from you soonest

Regards

Denis

Regards George

Yep....I got a similar email George...thanks for raising awareness of this....i suspected that it was dodgy, so was being cautious, but now I know that I can tell him where to go.
Les
Title: Re: "Denis Neagle
Post by: The Bowler Hatted Turner on April 27, 2017, 08:56:02 AM
Obviously my work is not up to ;D ;D ;D scratch as I didn't get an email!!
Title: Re: "Denis Neagle
Post by: Les Symonds on May 01, 2017, 06:35:56 PM
He made second-contact today with a sob story about his computer crashing, so he needed lots of info from me.....prehaps it's better that I don't go into any detail about my reply!

Les