|
Forums >
Newbie Forum >
Is this a photoshoot scam?
I was so excited i sent the information without thinking! If so what should i do Dear Jusueh, I'm Eric Walter, assistant chief editor for Lucky magazine. I officially welcomed your interest on this opportunity as our potential model for the upcoming website shoot. About Lucky Magazine: What distinguishes us from other magazines is that our focus lies on upcoming artists in the fashion & entertainment industry. We are interested in the daily life of the upcoming model/artist. In Lucky Magazine you can also read about fashion, beauty and interviews with upcoming models, photographers, actors, designers, DJ’s etc. About The Job: The project is strictly a no nude photo shoot for you to display latest fashions and necessary photographic editing to update a new look for our website homepage. Date/Time & Location. There are two available dates for the shoot, so you are allowed to pick a date that would be suitable for your schedule. Date: 31ST OF MAY OR 7th OF JUNE. TIME: 12PM TO 4PM. Shoot Location/Venue: Our favorite location for this gig is within your City, this was why you were selected as the closet model. The project manager will secure a suitable arena near enough for the shoot, and once we secured the venue; ONE WEEK BEFORE THE SHOOTING, the location info/address will be email to you. Transportation will cost you less both for you and your escort if you are willing to come with one to the venue. If you will work with us then you must be approachable and courageous. And about the compensation; our professional standard rate as slated and endorsed for this shoot is $250 per hour. An advanced deposit of $500.00 would be issued to you via a certified/valid Check as designed by our policy. Hereafter, your balance would be paid to you at the completion of the shoot. Payment Session. The payment has to be done in your name for proper customization on your attires and to make sure everything is tally with your records that will be sent along to the designer. The funds that you would use to pay the designer for your fashion accessories would not come from your pocket, it would be issued in one payment to you along with that of your advance payment A check payment of $2,560 will be mailed out to you { your advanced payment of $500 plus $2,060 for your attires/fashion accessories. So, as soon as you cashed the check, and deduct $500 endorsed for your advance pay, the rest of the fund ($2,560) is meant for your fashion accessories, customization and shipment charges that you will send to the store designer. Once we received a confirmation that the payment has been sent to you, complete Instructions will be email to you on how to process it and what is required by you to send your measurements statistics across to the store designer. Once the store got the transaction info and you measurement statistics, all the necessary fashion accessories for the shooting would be mailed to your address. But remember to take them along with you to the shooting location. You may come with any escort of your choice, but remember to be punctual because the makeup artist would be sitting at the location waiting for you. I shall send you the venue info and driving directions One week before the shooting. Please read through the payment section over again for proper clarification, and we trust your alleged promises to the model industry that you are trustworthy and faithful. If you have read and understood the content of this message kindly filled the "Sign Up Form" below. (PAYMENT DETAILS MUST BE FILLED TO SIGN UP) 1.Name to be written on the check: 2.Residence address:(Not Po. Box) 3.City/state/zip code: 4.Daily access email address: 5.Direct Mobile phone number: 6.Attached along 2 photographs (If Any). Lastly, When you get to the shooting location you will have to fill the model release form for this assignment before the shoot. Hope to hear from you shortly. Please be punctual with your email and response, because we neither welcome nor appreciated late response. Best Regards Eric 321-609-5772(For both call/Text) http://www.luckymag.com May 19 14 11:12 pm Link Josue Heart wrote: Cease ALL further contact and read this: May 19 14 11:15 pm Link  Moderator Note!Please see this video and read the articles: Avoiding scams: The basics Watch the video and read the article. May 20 14 06:10 am Link Just ask yourselves a logical question: Why would any legitimate company in the whole WORLD send you a big check more than of you promised payment (and usually 10% of the sum) and ask you to send the rest to another person? Wouldn't it be easier for them to issue 2 different checks(if it's legit) in the first place?? Greed is so DANGEROUS. May 20 14 07:48 am Link Any "company" that asks you to pay shoot staff is a scam. The cheque will bounce. May 20 14 08:14 am Link Geez, you would think that misspelling your name would be a hint May 20 14 09:12 am Link I got this as well.  thank you for posting this to inform others.May 21 14 06:09 am Link More than likely, the cheque would bounce if you cashed it. Do not. Usually you can forward it to the police, etc. but it's just better to ignore it at this point. May 21 14 12:58 pm Link Babybean wrote: Absolutely the cheque WILL bounce. May 21 14 01:05 pm Link people really fall for these still? really? May 24 14 10:20 am Link Kaitlyn Madsen wrote: Of course. People that are NEW to certain things, fall for the same stuff other new people have fallen for. May 24 14 01:10 pm Link I got this too. I have to admit that I was extremely skeptical but figured I'd take it one step at a time and certainly really be careful with that check. Yes, I'm guilty of being new. It wasn't sitting right with me at all and usually your gut is right, but let's face it. When you need the money, you hate to dismiss it "just in case". So I decided to look into it and do some research on this person and the magazine, etc. Thank God, because I found this. Thank you for posting for those of us who are still new and learning to spot these scams. Without having previous experience with legit shoots like this, it's hard to have anything to compare to in order to know if it's just how things work, or if you're in for a train wreck. Thanks again. Jun 01 14 04:54 pm Link Good Grief! I thought it was sooooo obvious!  Jun 01 14 05:18 pm Link Now that you have given them you email, phone & mailing address, (which they may have passed on to others) do not respond to any unsolicited contacts by those methods! Report the person who contacted you to the Mayhem mods using Contact a Mod Profiles are visible to everyone in the world! Never post private info there! Wish newbies would ask here first, before replying to these scammers! Jun 02 14 07:55 pm Link Josue Heart wrote: Jun 02 14 08:04 pm Link  robert b mitchell wrote: To many of us it is. To the OP it wasn't. I applaud the OP for taking the time to ask. People here have done a good job of helping. Jun 02 14 08:19 pm Link I just got this Same message saying his name was David . Smh I knew it sounded to good to be true so I copyed and pasted the number to google and I find this . I'm so glad I was smart enough to not go through with it. I just started off modeling myself. I also looked up the magazine and the editor in chief is Kim France . So this a bunch of red flag !! Avoid this message .. Dear Amaiya, I'm David Warren, assistant chief editor for Lucky magazine. I officially welcomed your interest on this opportunity as our potential model for the upcoming website shoot. About Lucky Magazine: What distinguishes us from other magazines is that our focus lies on upcoming artists in the fashion & entertainment industry. We are interested in the daily life of the upcoming model/artist. In Lucky Magazine you can also read about fashion, beauty and interviews with upcoming models, photographers, actors, designers, DJ’s etc. About The Job: The project is strictly a no nude photo shoot for you to display latest fashions and necessary photographic editing to update a new look for our website homepage. Date/Time & Location. There are two available dates for the shoot, so you are allowed to pick a date that would be suitable for your schedule. Date: 22nd/29th OF JUNE. TIME: 12PM TO 4PM. Shoot Location/Venue: Our favorite location for this gig is within your City, this was why you were selected as the closet model. The project manager will secure a suitable arena near enough for the shoot, and once we secured the venue; ONE WEEK BEFORE THE SHOOTING, the location info/address will be email to you. Transportation will cost you less both for you and your escort if you are willing to come with one to the venue. If you will work with us then you must be approachable and courageous. And about the compensation; our professional standard rate as slated and endorsed for this shoot is $250 per hour. An advanced deposit of $500.00 would be issued to you via a certified/valid Check as designed by our policy. Hereafter, your balance would be paid to you at the completion of the shoot. Payment Session. The payment has to be done in your name for proper customization on your attires and to make sure everything is tally with your records that will be sent along to the designer. The funds that you would use to pay the designer for your fashion accessories would not come from your pocket, it would be issued in one payment to you along with that of your advance payment A check payment of $2,560 will be mailed out to you { your advanced payment of $500 plus $2,060 for your attires/fashion accessories. So, as soon as you cashed the check, and deduct $500 endorsed for your advance pay, the rest of the fund ($2,560) is meant for your fashion accessories, customization and shipment charges that you will send to the store designer. Once we received a confirmation that the payment has been sent to you, complete Instructions will be email to you on how to process it and what is required by you to send your measurements statistics across to the store designer. Once the store got the transaction info and you measurement statistics, all the necessary fashion accessories for the shooting would be mailed to your address. But remember to take them along with you to the shooting location. You may come with any escort of your choice, but remember to be punctual because the makeup artist would be sitting at the location waiting for you. I shall send you the venue info and driving directions One week before the shooting. Please read through the payment section over again for proper clarification, and we trust your alleged promises to the model industry that you are trustworthy and faithful. If you have read and understood the content of this message kindly filled the "Sign Up Form" below. (PAYMENT DETAILS MUST BE FILLED TO SIGN UP) 1.Name to be written on the check: 2.Residence address:(Not Po. Box) 3.City/state/zip code: 4.Daily access email address: 5.Direct Mobile phone number: 6.Attached along 2 photographs (If Any). Lastly, When you get to the shooting location you will have to fill the model release form for this assignment before the shoot. Hope to hear from you shortly. Please be punctual with your email and response, because we neither welcome nor appreciated late response. Best Regards David 321-609-5772(For both call/Text) http://www.luckymag.com Jun 12 14 10:41 am Link Locutus wrote: Sounds like politics and corporate advertising. Jun 12 14 03:14 pm Link SCAM.............? of course, one If they "the company" can't give you a specific place the shoot is to be held ????= RED FLAG Jun 12 14 03:36 pm Link Just got the same thing from the same name, except this time he was posing as working for Elle magazine. I had a gut feeling, good thing I looked this up first to find this thread. It kind of gave it away when he said "our favorite location for this gig is in your city" but I really wanted it to be true -____- Jul 09 14 02:47 pm Link what do you do if you sent youR info already? Jul 31 14 02:47 pm Link Sherly Francois wrote: https://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thre … st12584857 Jul 31 14 03:23 pm Link Zaryana Milan wrote: It looks like her profile is already closed, so not sure if she will still be reading the forums. Jul 31 14 05:22 pm Link I got this email too but in mine, the alleged Eric Walter "works" for Cosmo magazine, not Lucky magazine. I looked in an issue of Cosmo and searched on Google but could not find anyone named Eric Walter who is or was an assistant project director for Cosmo magazine. If someone sends you a check, you cash it, spend the money, and don't have that amount of money in your account, you're liable for that bounced check. Be careful and mindful of scams! Sep 16 14 12:16 pm Link Information phishing. They are trying to steal your personal info. Sep 16 14 12:38 pm Link |
