RECENTLY, native mural artist Enni, who posts on Instagram at @ennimato_art, shared a narrative about her encounter with a con artist.
According to her, the con artist – who makes use of varied identities together with Jessie, Janice, and Yan Chie – had been approaching different mural artists on Instagram and pretending to be a shopper.
The scammer would ask for designs earlier than ignoring the artist afterwards.
The con artist contacted Enni utilizing the “Jessie” id. After Enni despatched over a mural wall art design, “Jessie” by no means bought again to her, so Enni simply assumed that “Jessie” was a nasty shopper. However, she discovered that “Jessie” had really stolen her design and painted the mural in a restaurant.
When Enni requested the proprietor of the restaurant about it, the proprietor instructed her that “Jessie” vanished even earlier than she accomplished the portray and will not be contacted.
To Enni’s horror, she discovered that the con artist had been following her for fairly some time, and had even been watching her IG Stories.
Other mural artists began to talk up about their very own experiences with this so-called “Jessie”.
Faidah Nazeri @faidahartlife additionally chimed in along with her encounter with the artist, who glided by the identify “Yan Chie” throughout their communications. “Yan Chie” had promised Faidah RM150 per day to work collectively on a wall art mural. Faidah had labored for nearly per week when the monsoon season out of the blue started, in order that they needed to pause work for some time.
A month later, their shopper referred to as them to proceed the wall mural however when Faidah requested “Yan Chie” about it, she instructed Faidah to proceed working with out her as a result of she was pregnant and couldn’t proceed. That was when Faidah discovered that she had taken the deposit of RM5,000 from the shopper and had absconded with it.
After just a few mural artists spoke up about her, “Yan Chie” blocked them and adjusted her profile bio which initially stated “mural artist”.
In such a tough time, it’s unhappy that an artist would plagiarise and rip-off different artists like that.
