If you get a suspicious message from an artist's account, double check the username. Impersonation accounts happen and are usually off by one letter. Posts about them still cross my dash all the time.

Got it!

this is one of the reasons why a custom domain is good. they can't impersonate someone without buying a similar looking domain name

Funny that this post crosses my timeline right as I get followed and dm'd by one lmao

Yeah, I almost got victimized by one the other day. They didn't just impersonate the account, they executed a Monkey in the Middle attack, using knowledge of the artist, and nearly got away with my comm money to her.

Good points. Domain names are something we need to normalize here.