We’ve gone international baby!!! I got the following e-mail today:

Hello, I am mr Roy Kennedy, I am interested in some of your arts here in asia for some exhibition. I will also like you to know i intend paying you for this arts with a certified check. As soon as i get the actual price for the items i will like to buy, i will order my client to send you payment immediately. I will also like you to know that the check will also include the funds for shipping, so what you are going to do is as soon as you receive and clear the check from bank, you are to get back to my reliable shipper with the excess funds so that he can use in arranging for a pick up right from your resident. I will also need you to get back with your information where payment will be sent. Get back with your official website also for proper choosing of items and let me know if i can trust you with the excess funds for shippment to be sent to my shipper. I await your response.

Dear Mr. Kennedy:

Do you happen to know Mr. AREMU SMITH? He and I have worked in the international art market together as of late. I believe the exciting society of international art brokering must be rather exclusive so perhaps you’ve crossed paths at certain high-end functions - I feel honored to be included in such elite group of movers and shakers.

Please send me the address of your client so that I may ship him whatever goods he needs as soon as possible. A ‘certified’ check, wow, really? That’s a wonderful gesture but your word is like gold to me. The revenue generated from Thumbtack Press prints helps hard working illustrators across the country, I’m sure I speak for all of them when I say, “My dear friend, We. Trust. You.“

Thank you for supporting a little start-up business like mine, it makes my heart swell that such good and honest patrons, like yourself, believe in hard workers and are willing to reward them for their talent.

I feel like singing,

I.M. Dipweed