I do. And you keep using the word "investment" lol that's the funny part.

I’m worried how anxious you’re going to become when you discover that Banksy isn’t even his real name.

 Jamie it's been explained to you numerous times now that no fraud ever took place.
If you care so much about what is right and what is wrong then you would cease your instagram account activities, (you know what I'm talking about)

You keep accusing me of being jps and I repeatedly told you that I'm not, I don't even know him but I'm gonna contact him and point him towards this forum and your particular comments as you clearly have a vendetta against this guy that outweighs bare fraud. You look very much involved into all of this to me.

And you still haven't explained your newly made account and then changing your name after I first called you out.

I only say I'm not him, how do I defend him? I even said he's a p*ick, Ive read the accusations and I defend the opinion that it's a fraud.
again, I don't get why banksys team doesn't react, it's one simple move to sue this guy or make a statement about it all, especially if it all can be "considered as crime".

You seen to be really obsessed with jps and you clearly have a personal vendetta against him, so maybe you should message him instead of bugging me.

Still no answer to my question about your suspicious new registered account and your name change by the way.

You don't know him but yet you are very quick to defend him on here 🙄
I will save you the effort of contacting yourself and pointing yourself in the direction of this forum as yourself already seems to be well aware of this forums presence as indicated by your facebook page. 




Also harassing Jo Brooks over instagram probably isn't the smartest thing to do and could even be considered as a crime. Stop complaining to people that she's blocked you when you have been relentlessly harassing her.

I'm not going to post some of the things about what you have been saying or details of the account in question as it's not right and quite disgusting. 




Or have you got your knickers in a twist because she said a piece that you painted wasn't by Banksy? 






You should seriously call it a day now, as your reputation is taking a serious hit and you risk alienating yourself. An apology won't do much to help you but it's probably a good place to start.

On the 5th October 2018 Banksy’s Balloon Girl captured the world’s attention. As the hammer went down at auction house Sotheby’s on the £860,000 piece, we watched in astonishment as the Balloon Girl began to shred. Many called it a ‘stunt’; a wonderful piece of marketing. Others questioned how this could have happened and cried ‘fake’.

One person who felt this was all a little dubious is street artist JPS who is adamant that something very fishy went on that day and has been continuing ever since. Claims of back dated artworks and false certificates of authenticity (COAs) by Pest Control are at the centre of this ongoing controversy.


We spoke directly to JPS to find out more about what is going on with Banksy and Sotheby’s…

“The starting point for me was the infamous shredder stunt. Although both Banksy and Sotheby’s strenuously deny being in cahoots (because that would be illegal), I firmly believe both parties were in on the stunt. But, putting the whole ‘how did the shredder frame make it past security’ type questions to one side, the bigger issue for me is that I believe the piece was falsely dated by 12 years”, explains JPS.

According to JPS, the alleged record breaking piece was not a 2006 Balloon Girl at all but a falsely dated newer version of the famous artwork. The timeline below, given to us by JPS, shows why he believes this is the case:




As you can see from the timeline, the 2006 version marked with a red dot is clearly a lot crisper than its 2005 and 2007 counterparts. In fact it would be fair to say that it is more alike to the later 2017 and 2020 versions.

If JPS is in fact correct, the infamous work. now residing in a German museum on permanent loan, was therefore purchased with a false back dated history.

Sotheby’s Alex Branczik made a statement attempting to quash any claims of wrong doing by stating that the piece wasn’t a 2006 work at all but a brand new 2018 version and yet at the time the hammer went down it had been sold as a 2006 work.



And it didn’t stop there…

JPS also claims that the next part of the Balloon Girl puzzle was brought to his attention when Banksy bought a rescue boat and the Balloon Girl appeared on the side of it.




“After seeing the version on the side of the boat and comparing it to the alleged 2006 one I am positive it was back dated, also in the 3 days after this, Banksy’s Instagram account grew from 1.8m to over 6m and once again his prices began breaking records. In 2017 Balloon Girl was voted the most popular piece of UK art and I firmly believe this is why this fresh faced version appeared at Sotheby’s ”, said JPS.

In 2020, to make a point of his frustration, JPS created a piece of art titled ‘Outta Time’ which featured his own version of Banksy’s Balloon Girl holding a COA and stood next to a Back to the Future DeLorean.




At this point, it would be very easy to simply accuse JPS of just being bitter and a little jealous of Banksy’s fame but, as JPS put it, “I feel people are being ripped off and lied to. If Banksy and Sotheby’s are fabricating histories for these pieces then buyers are investing huge sums of money into false works. If Pest Control are issuing certificates of authenticity falsely dating pieces by 12 years then how can they have any credibility?”

JPS believes that the Balloon Girl stunt in 2018 was just the beginning of a sophisticated operation between Banksy and Sotheby’s where new works are given a back dated history and COA and urges potential buyers to look closely, ask questions and think twice before investing.

When JPS first approached us with his findings we found it all a little overwhelming to be honest, but, when you look at the timeline you can understand why questions are being asked, and if this does have a false history, questions about other works start to be raised.

As we’ve said in previous articles, when huge sums of money are at stake who knows what people are capable of.

Before writing this article JPS stated that he contacted Banksy, Sotheby’s and Banksy’s PR agent Jo Brooks regarding the accusation… he heard nothing.

On the 5th October 2018 Banksy’s Balloon Girl captured the world’s attention. As the hammer went down at auction house Sotheby’s on the £860,000 piece, we watched in astonishment as the Balloon Girl began to shred. Many called it a ‘stunt’; a wonderful piece of marketing. Others questioned how this could have happened and cried ‘fake’.

One person who felt this was all a little dubious is street artist JPS who is adamant that something very fishy went on that day and has been continuing ever since. Claims of back dated artworks and false certificates of authenticity (COAs) by Pest Control are at the centre of this ongoing controversy.


We spoke directly to JPS to find out more about what is going on with Banksy and Sotheby’s…

“The starting point for me was the infamous shredder stunt. Although both Banksy and Sotheby’s strenuously deny being in cahoots (because that would be illegal), I firmly believe both parties were in on the stunt. But, putting the whole ‘how did the shredder frame make it past security’ type questions to one side, the bigger issue for me is that I believe the piece was falsely dated by 12 years”, explains JPS.

According to JPS, the alleged record breaking piece was not a 2006 Balloon Girl at all but a falsely dated newer version of the famous artwork. The timeline below, given to us by JPS, shows why he believes this is the case:




As you can see from the timeline, the 2006 version marked with a red dot is clearly a lot crisper than its 2005 and 2007 counterparts. In fact it would be fair to say that it is more alike to the later 2017 and 2020 versions.

If JPS is in fact correct, the infamous work. now residing in a German museum on permanent loan, was therefore purchased with a false back dated history.

Sotheby’s Alex Branczik made a statement attempting to quash any claims of wrong doing by stating that the piece wasn’t a 2006 work at all but a brand new 2018 version and yet at the time the hammer went down it had been sold as a 2006 work.



And it didn’t stop there…

JPS also claims that the next part of the Balloon Girl puzzle was brought to his attention when Banksy bought a rescue boat and the Balloon Girl appeared on the side of it.




“After seeing the version on the side of the boat and comparing it to the alleged 2006 one I am positive it was back dated, also in the 3 days after this, Banksy’s Instagram account grew from 1.8m to over 6m and once again his prices began breaking records. In 2017 Balloon Girl was voted the most popular piece of UK art and I firmly believe this is why this fresh faced version appeared at Sotheby’s ”, said JPS.

In 2020, to make a point of his frustration, JPS created a piece of art titled ‘Outta Time’ which featured his own version of Banksy’s Balloon Girl holding a COA and stood next to a Back to the Future DeLorean.




At this point, it would be very easy to simply accuse JPS of just being bitter and a little jealous of Banksy’s fame but, as JPS put it, “I feel people are being ripped off and lied to. If Banksy and Sotheby’s are fabricating histories for these pieces then buyers are investing huge sums of money into false works. If Pest Control are issuing certificates of authenticity falsely dating pieces by 12 years then how can they have any credibility?”

JPS believes that the Balloon Girl stunt in 2018 was just the beginning of a sophisticated operation between Banksy and Sotheby’s where new works are given a back dated history and COA and urges potential buyers to look closely, ask questions and think twice before investing.

When JPS first approached us with his findings we found it all a little overwhelming to be honest, but, when you look at the timeline you can understand why questions are being asked, and if this does have a false history, questions about other works start to be raised.

As we’ve said in previous articles, when huge sums of money are at stake who knows what people are capable of.

Before writing this article JPS stated that he contacted Banksy, Sotheby’s and Banksy’s PR agent Jo Brooks regarding the accusation… he heard nothing.

You don't know him but yet you are very quick to defend him on here 🙄
I will save you the effort of contacting yourself and pointing yourself in the direction of this forum as yourself already seems to be well aware of this forums presence as indicated by your facebook page. 




Also harassing Jo Brooks over instagram probably isn't the smartest thing to do and could even be considered as a crime. Stop complaining to people that she's blocked you when you have been relentlessly harassing her.

I'm not going to post some of the things about what you have been saying or details of the account in question as it's not right and quite disgusting. 




Or have you got your knickers in a twist because she said a piece that you painted wasn't by Banksy? 






You should seriously call it a day now, as your reputation is taking a serious hit and you risk alienating yourself. An apology won't do much to help you but it's probably a good place to start.

One possibility I still haven't fully discounted is that the above quotes and posts attributed to JPS / Jamie Paul Scanlon are all fake.

They could be part of an elaborate false flag operation, designed to make the artist look like an envious and resentful tit.

Indeed, JPS's apparent self-awareness deficit seems exaggeratedly suspicious to me. Perhaps nefarious actors are (for whatever reason) trying to discredit him — by giving us the false impression he truly is behaving in a manner comparable to that of an obsessively unhinged, scorned lover.

If this were the case, then JPS would be the innocent victim here of character defamation. He would deserve our sympathy, regardless of how poor his artwork happens to be.

At least with the end you seem to be right.
You should comment with your main profile by the way, reader, having an account solely to diss JPS and to mock people suffering from addiction and illnesses (see other thread) is ridiculous. Do it at least under your main account (and now don't come up with the theory that I've several accounts bs - checking my IP the admins will see its unique)


As it's been said several times in this thread, it's not about who outed it, it's about the facts - and it seems because nobody can deny the allegations, everyone attacks the person who made them. I said it here before, let's look away from who outed it to what has been outed.

Well I was just saying this because the focus was on him all the time and I got fed up with this. I wanted to get the focus back on the topic that's being displayed. Dissing JPS till the sun goes down doesn't change the allegations. Just because JPS outed it,doesn't mean it's not relevant.


Did you even read what else I was writing?
You've 8 posts in this forum since you registered a few hours ago and all of them are dissing either JPS or AK47. Both known rivals of banksy. So have at least the bottle and do it with your main account Reader.

So have at least the bottle and do it with your main account Reader.