YCHs and scamming

hi guys! As some of you may know, someone has been scamming my clients by targetting them through their comments on my YCHs and reaching out via discord/telegram before I can contact them. More info on that here: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/11340712

As usual, I implore everyone to be careful. I never contact first on discord (and I don't have a telegram) , and will Always make contact on FA first, and then ask if it's ok to talk on discord. I also never push payment before the sketch .

Going forward, YCHs will be posted on FA, but slot claiming will be done via a secondary website in order to keep your username/info private (so the scammer can't get'cha , lol.). I'm thinking of using kofi for this, since I'm already pretty familiar with the platform (but i'm open to suggestions!) Commissions will continue to be done through google forms since this is a safe enough method .

It sucks this is happening :(. Please be careful when commissioning artists, as I know this is a pretty common scam. These are large amounts of money being passed around, so please take care! I'll do all I can to keep you guys safe too.

I've also kindly been informed that the scammer uses the username miajoy2002 on paypal. This is not my paypal, haha, so if anyone sends you an invoice or has you send money to that username, it's not me. (there also may be more than one scammer? not sure. just be careful!)

If you're ever not sure that it's truly me contacting you, you can always dm me on FA!

Thank you so much everyone . <3 hope you're all doing well!

(sorry for the lack of posts this month, btw! april has been verrry busy for me. ill get things rolling again soon!)