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Israeli "Art Student" Scam My story is a little long and on-going first a little background. I am a single parent right now while my wife is deployed. Last night, I had just bought a FoodSaver (vacuum sealer) and was in the process of vacuum sealing everything I possible could, when someone knocks on the door. Against my better judgement, I open it and a woman is standing there and she introduces herself as an art student selling art to "cover costs so her and her 12 friends can open an art gallery in San Francisco". She also says something about an art school in Israel or something, a few details I brain dumped, but she also said pretty fast and with a deep accent. Flag #1. I live in Fairfield, CA. An hour from San Francisco, in a pretty random neighborhood. I have to admit, I was distracting with the dog, the "lets seal everything possible" project in the kitchen, the kid and a few of the bare walls in my house. So I bit a little. Okay, a lot. They were pretty nice oil paintings. I'm somewhat a sucker for art. I let her in to get a better look at the paintings. So she comes in. The prints she has are smaller, and they are oil paintings. As I am looking at them, I can tell they are mostly impressionist style paintings mostly of Venice. My guess, is this is because they are easier to re-create. Right away, another flag goes up. Flag #2. I have not studied art, but these seem familiar. Also, I have traveled through Italy, and the places depicted in the painting are of some of the areas I've told her and shes claiming Greece and Israel. At this point, shes also asking questions, random questions. Where do you work, where is your wife, etc, etc. I give her a few answers and ask her about the larger ones her friend has. She calls him and he shows up and unrolls quite a few large paintings. This whole story really doesn't get crazy to be honest. So I will spare the mundane details. Basically, they go on the big sell, we "negotiate" and I pick up two large paint

Israeli "Art Student" Scam My story is a little long and on-going first a little background. I am a single parent right now while my wife is deployed. Last night, I had just bought a FoodSaver (vacuum sealer) and was in the process of vacuum sealing everything I possible could, when someone knocks on the door. Against my better judgement, I open it and a woman is standing there and she introduces herself as an art student selling art to "cover costs so her and her 12 friends can open an art gallery in San Francisco". She also says something about an art school in Israel or something, a few details I brain dumped, but she also said pretty fast and with a deep accent. Flag #1. I live in Fairfield, CA. An hour from San Francisco, in a pretty random neighborhood. I have to admit, I was distracting with the dog, the "lets seal everything possible" project in the kitchen, the kid and a few of the bare walls in my house. So I bit a little. Okay, a lot. They were pretty nice oil paintings. I'm somewhat a sucker for art. I let her in to get a better look at the paintings. So she comes in. The prints she has are smaller, and they are oil paintings. As I am looking at them, I can tell they are mostly impressionist style paintings mostly of Venice. My guess, is this is because they are easier to re-create. Right away, another flag goes up. Flag #2. I have not studied art, but these seem familiar. Also, I have traveled through Italy, and the places depicted in the painting are of some of the areas I've told her and shes claiming Greece and Israel. At this point, shes also asking questions, random questions. Where do you work, where is your wife, etc, etc. I give her a few answers and ask her about the larger ones her friend has. She calls him and he shows up and unrolls quite a few large paintings. This whole story really doesn't get crazy to be honest. So I will spare the mundane details. Basically, they go on the big sell, we "negotiate" and I pick up two large paint