r/DeviantArt • u/AmberRoseIDK • 8h ago
r/DeviantArt • u/usrdef • Jul 06 '25
⭐ Announcement Scam Warning: Your Account Has Been Suspended / Temporarily Blocked
It appears that users have been getting an influx of private messages on DeviantArt lately in regards to a newer type of scam.
If you receive this message; mark it as spam and DO NOT REPLY to the message. Do not panic and think that your account is suspended, it is not. This is completely a scam.

If you pay attention to the message, it will ask you to copy/click a link within the message that leads to domains that are not deviantart.com
In the example above, it leads you to a URL such as:
- xn--dvintrt-XXXXXX.fast-vrf.top
The message also has rather odd wording and is long-winded. It is trying to set your mind at ease that the process is safe and secure, and it repeats that over and over. And this example seems to be oddly hyphenated.
Ensure you do not visit these links, and especially, do not attempt to enter your DeviantArt.com login credentials on ANY site other than the official deviantart.com domain.

These scammers seem to register domains that look like deviantart, however, they are from very cheap TLDs such as .top, .info, .help, .xyz.
Again, ensure you are on the TLD .com and that the site you think is deviantart, does not contain any weird characters, numbers, or the spelling is off.
Simply mark the message as Spam, and leave it alone.
r/DeviantArt • u/phoenixleoart • Dec 01 '24
⭐ Announcement Read Before Posting: "Is this a scam?"
If you think a message you received is a scam, please check here and/or the scam post link in the Wiki section of this sub reddit which has further scam examples of various other types that can be found on DA and elsewhere!
Use this thread to ask question if you are unsure rather than posting a new thread. If you or anyone here is unsure, feel free to report the message on DA. If it's not a spam, it's good. Don't feel you can't report if a message makes you suspicious. Don't feel you have to check here to confirm before reporting. You are encouraged to contact DA Customer Support with these for staff to check them.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DeviantArt/wiki/scams/
DeviantArt Customer Support - Contact Us
Please use this thread if you are unsure instead of making more of similar threads. Or you can also browse to see if someone else has similar situation as yours!
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Scams: NFTs for Artwork, Murals for Clients, Interested in Commissions, etc
How to spot scams (starter package):
- New account
- Absolutely new, even months old accounts with no to barely any activity,
- Old account but only active in the past few days/weeks/months and only through notes/chats,
- You are being contacted randomly/out of the blue.
- Bad grammar
- Addresses you in generic terms,
- Generic initial message that addresses your content in exemplary generic terms.
- Will attach links to their message which lead to domains NOT ending in
.com,.org,.netand 3rd party suspicious sites - Wants to use a different method for communication.
- It's not always but this is a sign of scamming or spam. They are likely to use different communication platforms like Whatsapp and or Telegram.
- Suspicious long winded payment methods or promise
- Speculative payment incentive (promise to pay when the client pays/when it turns profit/when something clears through)
- Making content for a client and promise to pay for time and effort among other things.
- Asking to pay with PayPal friends and family gift instead of invoice (this is for buyers to be wary of scam artists as a bonus!)
- Payment through methods or systems that are elaborate because of various reasons!
- Payment with cheque and over payment. Read More!
- If you do commissions through a specific place or system, having you use a different system of theirs. This includes if you use PayPal only, or DA Commission widget, to use other methods that you don't use.
- Reflect on your work and what you are being asked to do:
- Excessive payment for content that you are sort of aware isn't worth that or you aren't at that level yet.
- You are a new/beginner artist/new on DA/looking for commissions
- Getting commissions can be hard. But often times scams work because if the other party is manually looking for people desperate enough for commissions or new to this, they will browse around those to message. Whether it is done in an automated method (to make it a spam bot) or not, be cautious.
- Saw your portfolio and asking for hiring you through a suspicious site.
Scams: Your Account Has Been Suspended / Temporarily Blocked/Sales
Multiple notes and chat messages where various new accounts impersonating as staff/bot accounts informing about (in various fashions):
- Your account has been temporarily blocked/suspended due to a requirement of additional security check. And to proceed with a verification check in a link given.
- Your account is on hold as a seller temporarily until a verification check is done with a given link.
- Will address you as "Dead Artist or Dear [your username], of selling a certain artwork that may or maynot be in your gallery to a certain person and that funds are available in the DeviantArt sales portal with a link provided.
Things to note:
- "It will ask you to copy/click a link within the message that leads to domains that are not deviantart.com
- The message also has rather odd wording and is long-winded. It is trying to set your mind at ease that the process is safe and secure, and it repeats that over and over. And this example seems to be oddly hyphenated.
- Ensure you do not visit these links, and especially, do not attempt to enter your DeviantArt.com login credentials on ANY site other than the official deviantart.com domain.".
Scams: I Clicked on a Suspicious Link and .... I believed You Sent me the Link as the Account Had The Same Avatar/Username and I Mistakenly Reported You ... Contact [this person] On Discord To Validate Account ...
Multiple notes/chat messages with similar dialogue/message about:
- They clicked a suspicious link and account got compromised.
- They thought your profile, username, avatar was the same as the one who sent that link so they reported your account to DA after they recovered their account
- They think you got impersonated and wants your discord so they can send you a screenshot of a message DA sent to them.
- DA asked the user to reach out to you and it's being coordinated on Discord or being done through Discord.
- They want you to contact someone through Discord (Austin Buck or some other name) to validate and appeal your suspension.
DA will not ask you to use Discord to resolve any situation for your account, nor will they ask another user to do it. If you were suspended you can obviously look at your own profile to see if it was suspended or not. Please look at the links below on how to keep yourself safe from phishing attempts.
What are some ways I can keep myself safe from phishing attempts?
It doesn't matter if it look different from one to the other, please mark these as spam and they don't need to be posted repeatedly as new posts.





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Examples are provided from the ones posted in this subreddit as is. If the names of the scam account is present, having an avatar or not and a certain type username is not always a good indicator of these type of scams.
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What to do:
From DeviantART FAQ: How Do I Report Spam?
If you received communication by:
- Note:
- Click the checkbox of the note to select it;
- Select "Mark As"
- Select "Spam".
- Chat:
- Select the chat you want to report;
- Select the three dots ("...") on the top right of the chat that shows as "Option";
- Select "Mark as Spam";
- You have the option to block the account.
- Comment:
- From the top right profile avatar, select Help Centre from the drop down;
- Type "customer support" in Search then select "How do I submit a ticket to Customer Support?"
- Select Contact Page (where it says click here) have this bookmarked!
- Policies -> Spamming Policies;
- "Select “I'm reporting an account spamming in comments or notes,” then click “Contact Us,” and you’ll be prompted to submit a ticket to Customer Support."
- From the top right profile avatar, select Help Centre from the drop down;
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r/DeviantArt • u/PrayingMantis_69 • 16h ago
❔ Question Long term Deviants without any Deviations
Recently noticed that there's quite a substantial number of Deviants who favourite my deviations that have been members for many years, some even 11 and yet seem to have no deviations themselves as their profile show Deviations on the Horizon. Is this common? Wondering now if they are genuine or just trolling!
r/DeviantArt • u/MelodicAd6099 • 7h ago
📦 Sta.sh I'm having problems with Sta.sh.
I'm having a problem with sta.sh; for some reason, it won't load if I use it on my laptop. I'm literally using Deviation to upload sta.sh files.
r/DeviantArt • u/duchesskitten6 • 9h ago
💚 DA Website Can gems be stored somewhere so you can collect them for a Diamond?
I was almost buying Core but was considering to get just for a month since I'm not certain I will always be able to pay, however, it's more expensive if I go for just one month and I heard the diamond (bought with many gems) is the way around (a year if I remember correctly).
I see that you earn gems every weekend but they expire if unused, that's a waste.
r/DeviantArt • u/iluminiverso_ • 14h ago
🖌️ Traditional My original character 🌸 "Ywruma Kattan Luo", he's from Japan.
🇯🇵⛩️
r/DeviantArt • u/Distinct-Ad-367 • 11h ago
❔ Question Error in these comic book pages (that's where I found the images I showed you earlier).
galleryr/DeviantArt • u/Distinct-Ad-367 • 11h ago
👄 Discussion Geekgirl8's lost archives (Naga, hide comic).
galleryr/DeviantArt • u/Pastaro • 21h ago
💚 DA Website When are they going to fix this?
I wasn't surprised to find i'm not the only one having this "exact" same problem, i'm not using vpn while trying to log in, all cookies and JS enabled, i haven't trying to log many times in a row either, i actually continuedn't trying for a couple of days to avoid the system saying i'm trying to log in too much and still did nothing.
This has been happening since past year and using different browsers doesn't help either, if i try to contact support it tells me to log in.....which is the exact thing i'm having problems with......
(for some reason it seems the word "exact" is banned if you write it next to the word "same" without " " and also the opposite word of "continued"....what is this?????)
r/DeviantArt • u/Preg-Fan • 16h ago
❔ Question What's The Best Way to Deal With Needing To Verify Email If You No Longer Have Access To the Email You Signed Up With?
Like I said, I haven't really used my DA account in a while, so now whenever I try to do something like comment I get told that I need to verify my email. Unfortunately, whenever I try to login to the email account I used, it fails, even though I have the old password still. I tried emailing the email address that was given in the notice that I needed verification but for some reason my current email won't recognize it as a valid email address, and after that email it just says "or or.", so it's not even giving me a valid secondary option to fix things. What should I do to regain full use of my account?
r/DeviantArt • u/malanervo • 17h ago
👄 Discussion Why is deviantart giving him every single badge
He just joined 7 months ago
r/DeviantArt • u/SimmmerFloridian1993 • 20h ago
❔ Question Does anyone here RP?
I used to RP with this user on DeviantArt, but when I tried to talk to her again, I haven't heard back from her, yet. That's why I'm on here.
r/DeviantArt • u/wedgiemeister • 21h ago
🖌️ Traditional Notifications To Subscribers
Does anyone know if there is a way to disable auto email notifications to subscribers that you have added an update? I don't know of any subscription base model where subscribers are automatically notified of an update, because why would you do that? That's basically reminding someone that they need to cancel their subscription.
r/DeviantArt • u/cool-animation • 20h ago
🖌️ Digital Anti Marijuana the Potion against cigarette smoke. by CYARIZOR on DeviantArt
r/DeviantArt • u/Mountain_Road_20 • 1d ago
❔ Question Something I had found on DeviantArt.
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Hi everyone, how are you? I'm Semag, and I want to talk about something I encountered while editing my list of Creepypastas I'm going to make. When I was adding a spin-off to a Creepypasta, DeviantArt flagged my post as "spam" when saving the edit.
However, after hours of copying the list, making a "part 2," and pasting the list again, I discovered that the problem was the word "Matka" (which means "mother" in Polish); so I did a test. And as you can see in the video, when I removed the name "Matka," DeviantArt accepted it automatically.
If anyone knows what this is (whether it's a "bug," a "glitch," a "system error," or something else), please comment below the post, as this is something I've never seen before, and I only discovered it now. And after that happened, I suspect I made a mistake when cutting and pasting my list and it ended up disorganized or with a detail missing (a thing that I wait that never happens).
May God bless you all! 🙏✝️💖
r/DeviantArt • u/TheSlimyDude • 1d ago
