Two Men Arrested and Sentenced for Selling Fake Banksy Prints Online

While a “possibly real” Banksy will fetch you at least $75,000, a series of “definitely fake” Banksys will land you court-ordered community service. The latter was the case this week in London as two men pleaded guilty to selling fake prints which they’d attributed as being created by the famous street artist. They’d already sold several of the forged pieces through their multiple eBay addresses, reports The Art Newspaper, several going for near $10,000. Officials arrested the two men, confiscated the fakes, and a judge has ordered each of them to fulfill 240 hours of community service and have banned them from “selling anything on the internet for five years.”

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