Yesterday I received the following scam inquiry through my website’s contact form. (I’ll explain why it’s a scam below.) Has anyone else seen this one?

Name:
Elizabeth Wolfson

Email:
info@throwbrands.store

Message:
Hello  

I hope this message finds you well.

My name is  Elizabeth Wolfson, and I am a Human Resources | Organizational Development at The Row. After reviewing your profile on Behance, We believe your skills and experience align well with our needs for an Digital Art. We are currently seeking a remote (full-time/freelance) creative individual to join our team.

I would like to invite you to an interview via Microsoft Teams to discuss the position further and to get to know you better. At Alexander Wang, We are always looking to grow our team with talented and creative individuals who can help us achieve great things together.

Please let me know if you’re available for an interview. If so, I would be happy to coordinate via Microsoft Teams using the following link:

  https://teams.live.com/l/invite/FDAt4arZR2MkTVbAAM?v=g1 
OR 
live:.cid.ac501b3f24141ffc

The work hours are Monday to Friday, 8:30 am – 5:30 pm. The position offers a competitive salary of $60 – $125.00 per hour, with availability for full-time, part-time, or freelance work.
I look forward to your response.

Sincerely,

Elizabeth Wolfson
Human Resources
Organizational Development
At The Row

The first indicator that this is a scam is that I don’t actually have a Behance account. Nothing wrong with it, but it’s just not a social media that I use. So, she very well did NOT see my profile on Behance. However, Karen Jones is not exactly an uncommon name. So, maybe that other children’s illustrator named Karen Jones (yes, there is one) has a Behance profile and she’s got me mixed up with her.

Second, she mentions “At Alexander Wang…” which I assume is a copy/paste error. She has another version of this email set up as if it’s from Alexander Wang, and she swapped it out for The Row. But missed one mention. BTW, The Row is a company started by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and Alexander Wang is a completely different, completely unrelated fashion house. So, it’s not like they’re two names for the same family of companies.

Third is just a typo. “We believe your skills and experience align well with our needs for an Digital Art.” Should be “a digital artist” to make sense. On it’s own, not a flag at all. People make typos. But it just looks like a copy/paste error.

Fourth is the domain on her email. She should have stuck with a gmail address, frankly. It would have looked less suspicious. (Still a little suspicious, but not as much as throwbrands.store looks.) So, the actual domain name for The Row is, unsurprisingly, therow.com. Looking closer, Elizabeth’s version is throw brands dot store. Not even the row brands dot store. I went to ICANN and looked up Elizabeth’s throwbrands.store domain. It says the registry was created “2025-09-29 20:11:39 UTC”. As I post this, it’s October 2, 2025. So, she only just recently created the domain. Not what we’d expect from a fashion house founded in 2006.

I am not going to touch those Microsoft Teams links with a ten-foot pole.

So, people. Don’t get caught by this one. Elizabeth Wolfson certainly is a predator, and us artists are her prey.