Art student scam
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art-student-scam-170-16998790
title:
Art student scam
text:
The art student scam is a confidence trick in which cheap, mass-produced paintings or prints are misrepresented as original works of art, often by young people pretending to be art students trying to raise money for art supplies or tuition fees. The sellers mostly represented themselves as French art students, but the scam has recently been copied internationally, with instances of Israeli, Chinese, Chilean, Nigerian and other nationalities posing as art students or dealers in Australia, Canada,
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Confidence trick
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_student_scam
date created:
2010-03-02T20:00:04Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T14:41:54Z
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