Scammer- Josh Hoopes

3 min read

Deviation Actions

FriendlyHand's avatar
By
Published:
9.4K Views
This is a bit of info for anyone who hasn't heard of Josh Hoopes.

He's been pulling the same scams for five years or more. He has many aliases and member names.  He poses as a client to scam artists out of artwork and he poses as an artist to scam clients out of money. He sometimes impersonates well known comic artists such as Art Adams. He generally makes advertisements seeking for comic book art or replies to ads by offering to provide comic book art. He also steals concept art, game art and other types of art.

The information below is by no means complete. I'm posting it to warn clients and artists to be cautious when dealing with business partners online. Break large projects into smaller milestones and start with small payments to test the reliability of the other party. Be polite but careful. Establish a good web reputation by maintaining a website and profile for a long period of time. On DA, new profiles, profiles with hidden comments and hidden history or no galleries are reasons to be suspicious. a free, disposable email account like gmail or yahoo is more suspicious than someone with a their own domain name, company email or at least an email address that has been around for ten years so you can find some history on Google.

Here are some articles and threads about Josh Hoopes:
www.bleedingcool.com/2014/02/2…
www.bleedingcool.com/2013/03/3… bleedingcool.com
www.bleedingcool.com/2012/12/0… bleedingcool.com
www.bleedingcool.com/2012/12/2… bleedingcool.com
www.bleedingcool.com/tag/josh-… bleedingcool.com
www.digitalwebbing.com/forums/… digitalwebbing.com
www.digitalwebbing.com/forums/… digitalwebbing.com
forum.deviantart.com/art/gener… deviantart.com
robbdaman.deviantart.com/journ…
forums.conceptart.org/showthre… conceptart.com
forum.deviantart.com/jobs/offe… deviantart.com
forum.deviantart.com/jobs/offe… deviantart.com
forum.deviantart.com/jobs/offe… deviantart.com
forum.deviantart.com/jobs/offe… deviantart.com
members7.boardhost.com/dfincha…


aliases and suspected aliases: (keep in mind some of the proper names he has used may also belong to real artists who he has impersonated)
scribbles007 on Deviantart
rcdream on DeviantArt
inked56 on DeviantArt
vaders on deviantart using the photobucket page s286.photobucket.com/user/riob… mentioned in a couple of the digitalwebbing/conceptart threads above)
crazypens on DeviantArt (banned account) here's a thread about crazypens: forum.deviantart.com/jobs/offe…
andersartist on DeviantArt (banned account) threads mentioning andersartist /John Anders: forum.deviantart.com/jobs/offe…  forum.deviantart.com/art/gener…
oipotty on deviantart
magicmarco
ronrunstrom@ymail.com (as Ron Runstrom, linking to this portfolio) s717.photobucket.com/user/stro…
inked56@yahoo.com (as Joseph Jenkins, linking to this portfolio.) s677.photobucket.com/user/inke…
crazypens@live.com
cinemagic87@yahoo.com (as John Martin)
magic_bella@yahoo.com
joshjoejosh@yahoo.com
Robert Salinez(art-wise@hotmail.com)
Joshua De Lava, using same email as Robert Salinez(art-wise@hotmail.com) forum.deviantart.com/jobs/offe…
Mike Roberts
John Anders
Jeff Henzel
joshua john
Joseph McElroy
Greg Garwood,
john lalit
anders kumal


Address on record: (may not be current)
Josh Hoopes
3314 May Street
Sacramento, CA 95838
© 2013 - 2024 FriendlyHand
Comments8
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In
you would think a guy that can freehand copy Todd McFarland and Art Adams wouldn't have to spend his life scamming people ...what a F'N waste