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In this case, a lowdown dirty outfit called statloveov.
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URL: https (colon, slash, slash) statloveov (dot) live.
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Guess what the name of the store is?
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“Online Store.”
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But the only name you’ll actually see on their site is “Shop.”
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And if you have a question about your order, well, sorry, no phone number, but you can email them at… hot (at) examfreevs.com.
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Hmm…
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Long story short: statloveov (dot) live is a scam. Buy anything from them and you can just kiss your money goodbye.
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I have a couple of Google Alerts set up that notify me of any online references to “Mark Armstrong” or “Mark Armstrong Illustration.”
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I got one the other day titled “Happy Birthday Norman Rockwell By Mark Armstrong.” It caught my eye because I’d recently posted a caricature of Norman Rockwell on my Facebook page.
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The alert looked peculiar because it referenced a site called escapeauthority (dot) com.
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I clicked on the alert and here’s what came up:
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Bold as brass, as my dear old grandmother used to say.
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They gave it a rating of 5 stars— gee, thanks fellas, you miserable thieving scum!!
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Here’s the original August 29th post on my Facebook Page—
I assume that’s where they got it.
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Look at all the good stuff you can buy from “Online Store” (below). How about an Alchemy ATLAS bicycle for only $52.50?? Quite a bargain considering you’d have to pay at least $12,500 for the same bicycle on the Alchemy site.
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“Order us directly” must be a new slang expression for “steal.”
Their “powerful customer service team” keeps an eye on things and “sticks to its guideline.” I guess its guideline is not supplying a phone number customers can call, just a dubious email address.
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I googled their street address: 4315 Benedum Drive New Paltz NY 12561.
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The first item returned was: “Statloveov Life [sic] Scam Or Genuine…” Clicking on it took me to a findings page posted by a company that investigates suspicious online businesses.
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Their conclusion: statloveov.live is a scam. Red flags included:
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–Lots of heavily discount products (consistent with multiple scam sites)
–hot (at) examfreevs.com email address appears on multiple scam sites
–No phone number
–Website name different from domain name
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It’s true that artwork is automatically copyrighted as soon as an artist creates it, but to pursue legal action, I’d have to register the images with the United States Copyright Office.
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I’d also have to hire an intellectual property lawyer, and my instincts tell me it would be more time, trouble, and money than it’s worth— which is probably what scammers count on.
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Artists can file a takedown notice with the server or whoever is supporting the scam website. (At the bottom of the statloveov site, it says: “Powered by statloveov.live.”)
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“statloveov (dot) live is hidden behind CloudFlare… it is impossible to tell who is hosting this website, because it is hidden behind CloudFlare proxy. No tool on the internet will be able to tell you the hosting company for this website.”
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In 2018, the European Union’s Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List identified Cloudflare as a notorious market which engages in, facilitates, or benefits from counterfeiting and piracy.