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How I almost got scammed on Instagram and started to create NFT

07.20.2023

Hello! I recently got a comment and a DM on my Instagram page with my artwork, and the user’s message was that he would buy my artwork if I made it NFT. I was skeptical but a little bit hopeful because he specifically said he would buy this and that for how much.
I had no idea where to make the NFT and how to sell it, so I asked him, and he told me to make it with Opensea, which I did.
I contacted him with the link. He sent me a screenshot saying that he had tried to buy it but failed, and further asked me to contact them at this email address.
 

 
I was disappointed that the email address was Gmail, so I was almost sure it was a scam…, but I tried to contact the support center of Opensea legitimately from the site. They replied that they had confirmed a similar scam and that Opensea does not provide any support for non-purchasers about purchases.
I was slightly disappointed in this one, but at least it gave me a chance to learn about NFT and OpenSea and get started, so I don’t think it was too bad.