Made a journal about this, but also making a submission to hopefully warn people. I was unable to grab the username "artbyzephra" on discord, and someone has claimed it fully trying to act like they're me.

A few notes:
- they are messaging asking for payment via friends and family. I will never ask that - I use invoices to help with commission security for myself and commissioners
- they are using my links to try and gain credulity. I've added images/warnings on as many of those links as I can, in hopes people see that and see a red flag/don't give them anything
- discord has not responded to my support ticket just yet
- FA acted super fast, and the profile they were using is suspended

I know it's a more common scam going around, but I really feel horribly for anyone who gets scammed in the fandom and it hurts that people are using my name to try and take advantage of others.

Please feel free to reach out to me if ever wondering if an interaction is legitimate, be it in shouts, comments, notes, email, anywhere. I've even written up an artist beware on myself in the past when I lost commission info MFF 2018 - I would rather take any negative comments to give people the best security I can when working with me.

And always feel free to ask questions if uncertain. I just hope no one ends up being hurt by this. I know there's not much to be done beyond posting publicly, but trying to be as open as I can with what's happening.

I've also added connections on discord to Twitter, YouTube, and twitch (working on Instagram, but it isn't working the best), to hopefully make it obvious for anyone trying to reach out.

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to email me too at artbyzephra[at]gmail.com