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A con artist who has been scamming comic book artists and publishers out of money for over a decade tried to con an RPG on Kickstarter.

The Daring Comics Role-Playing Game, a superhero RPG powered by the Fate system, had a close brush with a real life supervillain - Comic Con Man, who nearly scammed the publisher out of money with a dastardly plan that has worked on countless victims in the past.

Facetiousness aside, the con man is allegedly one Josh Hoopes, operating under the false identity of "Samitra Banks." Hoopes - or rather, "Banks" - was commissioned by lead designer Lee F. Szczepanik, Jr. to do some work on the upcoming Daring Comics RPG, now on Kickstarter. Banks approached Daring Entertainment in January with a portfolio of work that turned out to be stolen from various artists and claimed to need a bank-to-bank transfer for payment rather than PayPal.

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