- I received this message the other day: "

                       
Hello,

Are you are interested in a Paid Fashion Shoot?. No nudity, fetish, bondage and other adult content stuff. You are allowed to come with an escort. I will be pleased to give you this opportunity to participate in our next month's fashion shoot. For more information please get in touch with:

Durwin

Email:  [email protected]

Thank you"

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I tried looking up the person profile, and it's gone(probably removed).



I DID end up emailing whoever this is,

here's the emails: 



"Hello again,

We are happy to inform you that you are one of the few models chosen out of the screening exercise performed for us by model mayhem, you have got the necessary Requirements we need for our Magazine update (www.hellomagazine.com) September 2014 issue, We here by decided as a committee to offer you this modelling pay job, I will be very happy if you could send me some of your work. My client wants to update her Catalog with her Midyear Release Fashion outfits and I'm interested in you for the professional shooting no nudity, fetish, bondage, escort and other adult content stuff. So if you are interested you can get back to me. The shoot will held at a rented photographers studio very close to your location, the shoot will be 2hrs daily, we would be responsible for your transport and feeding throughout the photo shoot, the invitation letter would be mailed to you, You have the opportunity to bring along an assistant which we would handle the expenses along with your own just for you to feel comfortable throughout the shoot.

JOB DETAILS:
Outfit will be provided by our wardrobe stylist on the day of the shooting and the shoot is just for 2 days and you will be paid $1100 for the whole project, the Job is Urgent so you are to get back to us as soon as possible so that we can arrange on how to get you the part payment, meet the stylists and other crew members. You would be paid the initial payment of $500 to guarantee your participation in the shoot, as part of our working policy and ethics of our company, we give part payment to any client before we proceed with any job and balance immediately after the work.As I told you earlier this project is very urgent we will be taking care of your payment, accommodation and other expenses. The part payment would be mailed directly to you along side with the wardrobe stylist allowance, shoes and costume fee for the shoot.Location, time and date will be made known to you soon, this is to ensure that we pick a convenient time and place for the shoot
NOTE: As soon as you get the payment, you will deduct $500 and send the remaining balance to the wardrobe stylist. The wardrobe stylist will contact you as soon as she receives all your information from us, if you are interested kindly get back to us with your details as follows:

MODEL'S INFORMATION
1. Name:
2. Studio name (optional
3. Years of experience:
4. Phone#:
5.Address:
6. Cities:
7. State:
8. Zip Code

PAYMENT INFORMATION
1. Name on check:
2. Complete Mailing Address:
3. Cities:
4 State:
5. Zip Code:

REQUIRED EQUIPMENT:
______________________________
_______________
______________________________
_______________
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________

I hereby represent and warrant that the above information is true and Kindly know that PO Box is not applicable.

Thanks
Durwin
"

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I emailed my information back(as it's not like they were asking for bank information. A simple address can't do anything), as well as saying :

"This sounds a little too god to be true, but I'll give it a shot!
But you haven't specified exactly where the location is, around me?
So as stated in your email, the invitation will be sent to me via mail?
Will I have a model contract to sign when I arrive?"


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And then I received the reply :


"Hello Victoria,

Thank you for getting back to us, your informations were received, documented and presented to the company financial manager so as to process your payment soon. The company decided to pair you up with the rest of the team, Make-Up Artist, Hairstylist, Wardrobe Stylist, they're busy traveling around the States doing Make-Up for some top models as regards to their portfolio, they work on contract basis for us.
You'll be contacted as soon as everything has been arranged on when and how you'd meet other models before the shoot. I will e-mail you soon as payment has been mailed out to you on or before (29th Aug). Shooting date will be on the (6th or 7th September 2014 in Palm Bay at 3pm). Hope any of the dates is Ok for you? Pls let me know asap.

Also, the Make Up Artist will let you know more as soon as the funds has been received and other important information would be made known to you as well. OK? so keep very close to your Email box so as to get our e-mails and have it replied immediately.

Thank you,
Durwin"


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I was also skeptical because I live in a small town, and there's no way they'd do a fashion shoot here.
Also, why would the directly contact the models on sites like these, when they could be going through agents?




And now,  I'm receiving messages on both here & OMP these "paid fashion shoots".



If these are scams, I'm really tired of them and I take my career/dream seriously, and it's an INSULT when all these people waste your time and get your hopes up!

Yes, Hello magazine is a well-documented scam.

No legit business will ever ask you to take partial payment from a check/money order/draft/etc and then forward the rest to someone else.

yup.  Pretty obvious. What is sad is...if I am correct in this assumption...TOO MANY PEOPLE KEEP FALLING FOR IT.  Otherwise the scam would fail and there would no point to doing it and it would stop.


sigh...

Well darn!
This really sucks then!


I really do want to get myself out there, so I'd take ALMOST* any job that comes my way,   but scams are such an insult & waste of time!

I just want to finally get legitimate jobs!

Thanks for the answers!

Just had almost the exact same thing happen.. It sucks when you're trying to build your name and are given false hope.

Let's see...

...  They send you a big check, but
...  You have to pay someone else (e.g. a wardrobe stylist), and
...  In the end, their check bounces & yours doesn't.
...  Please to ignore bad speling und grandma.

For $50, I'll explain how this scam works.  Wait!  Oh, darn. 



Okay -- if someone hires you, they & not you should be paying the rest of the team.

Not all paid offers are scams, but all offers requiring you to pay anyone else are probably scams.

For the future, consider that you're only 5'3", have large tattoos, and your face is pierced. You're chances of paid work where you keep your clothes on, especially fashion, are extremely slim. Chances of a legit publication contacting YOU are even more slim. You work with a photographer, THEY contact the magazine to submit the images, they do or dont get selected.

If it sounds too good to be true, it is. Being realistic helps you weed out the scammers, they prey on the dreamers and the ones who dont know any better.

I was totally for this until I saw the payment arrangements in the job description section.

No way is this a good idea

Just recceived this message myself and thought it seemed rather odd. I  just joined Model Mayhem so how could I fit any requirements when I don't even have somplete stats for myself up yet?
Decided to do a search and came upon this thread here.
Thanx for the thorough follow up and info.
xoxo-Doomstress

Several well known members make it hard for new models.   They post they know models here who make 10k or more a month who don't do nudes are are 5'4" yet never say who these models are or show any photos.   They tell us about how they make $250.00 an hour to walk around with people while photographers take snapshots of them or how they have made thousands a month despite being tiny.   They never prove they have and who can verify they can.   So models like the OP see this nonsense and think that they can too and some fall for cons like the OP received.   I know of two models who did.   

Its important to know the standards.   Even freelance models should.   I'm not so sure that its very easy for non nude petite models to make much money.   Look at the forums though and contact those who claim they do and ask them for their advice.   Here's a good on-line resource:    http://www.newmodels.com/