Contact email: [email protected]  (( please ignore any contact from this person, i apologizes for the mis understanding, some one hacked my account i already changed my  pass word sorry for the inconvenient ill be updating my profile today.)

You'll want to clean your cache as well.

How do you clear my cache? Or do you mean my internet history?

You aren't the only person apparently. I received this message listing the same email (thanks for posting it so it showed in search results) from a model account:


Dear MMer,
How are you doing this morning? Your service is needed to be our photographer for an editorial paid job project? If you are interested, kindly email the below contact info for the job details.


Contact email: [email protected]

Thanks
Marc

Yes that is it please ignore any message from his email every thing has been resolved and i went though the verification processes that i am who i am and my account was closed and now i am back best regards and be careful .

How strange. I just received an MM email from a model I shot with 4 years ago asking if I had sent her an email about a port update. I had not.

Consider changing your password and quickly i wish you all the best; i have re-sovled my issue The monitor closed my account and here i am again it dident take to long of a time but i notice the person was able to harass about 6 pages worth of emails and i have vip so they can contact allot of people..

Thank you that was very useful i thought that's what you meant i just wanted to see if you meant something else instead. Best regards and stay safe there people with no lives and apparently they think its a good idea to ruin other peoples.

Received a similar email today with a slightly different email address: [email protected]. Same message about wanting to hire me as a photographer. I first checked the status of the account and it was either waiting for approval or removed. Not quite sure what their fishing for by getting me to email them back but I'm steering clear.

Some people really need something better to do with their time, I posted this in hopes of fighting back against these spammers, just don't up and give up, just because you're first shoot with a photographer was les then professional doesn't mean you quite you're ambitions to become a model, the same logic can be applied here.

I just got a message yesterday morning as well.

"Dear MMer,
How are you doing this morning? Your service is needed to be our photographer for an editorial paid job project? If you are interested, kindly email the below contact info for the job details.


Contact email: [email protected]


Thanks
Happy weekend!"

I didn't reply and I just googled the email and it took me to this forum.

Last year, I got a MM message,from the account of a model I had shot with, saying they had lost our images & could I send them to her at her (correct) email.. I thought it sounded funny, as we had never used her email to communicate. Right after I got an email from her real email account with the same request. Just didn't seem right, so, I, instead, texted her at the phone number we had been using, & mentioned it to her. Turned out she had not sent the message or the email! Was news to her! Seems both were hacked, so we agreed to only contact by text. I think she was later able to reset passwords to resolve it.

I hope people realize that it is not necessarily their email that got hacked. The spammers use ANY email they can harvest. IOW, anyone who has your address in their contact list could be the real account that was hacked. With spoofing the spammers can send messages that appear to come from any of those harvested addresses.

Yes, so This Marc could of hackecd some one ellse or it is possible you resived the email from me, or some one ellse. all i have to say is these people should get a life, I changed my email adress recently becouse shome how they still manage to hack my acount again, I am guessing they had access to my email and figured out the new password.

Someone should make something to stop this, if it really is scam ...


/// Dear Mmer,
  I'm Marc Derec, official director of photography for New Talents Magazine. I acknowledged your interest and application for the catalog shoot offer via ModelMayhem.
  Therefore, I officially welcomed your interest on this opportunity as our potential photographer for the upcoming project. We are very busy running many projects at the moment so we need more hands to deliver a good results. Therefore, we need your service to be our hired photographer for the upcoming shoot in the second week of next month.

The Shoot Is For What? It's a Catalog Photo Shoot assignment to showcase/features different brands of Hand Bags, Purses, Wallets and Gift items. It intends featuring a large collection of new products from various sources and manufacturers; to be displayed in an online Classified ad, Pamphlets, Billboards, Hand bills and Calendars. Our obligation in respect to this piece of project is to generate some marketable images to feature these items, where a model will pose with the various products and sizes to exhibiting a photographic character/language able to attract and call consumer's attention. It is very simple and works the same as any typical promotional or commercial photo shoot. The end product from the photo shoot is an online classified ad, Pamphlets, Billboards and Calendars that would convince the public to make these collection a choice among others.

DATE/TIME & LOCATION:
Dates: 12th OF APRIL/13 OF APRIL(pick just one date that works for you from the two dates). TIME: 12PM TO 4PM.

SHOOT LOCATION/VENUE:
Our favorite location for this gig is within your City, this was why you were contacted as the closest photographer, The location manager will secure a suitable arena near enough for the shoot, and once we secured the venue; ONE WEEK BEFORE THE PROJECT, the location info/address will be emailed to you. Transportation will cost you less. And about the compensation; our professional standard rate as slated and endorsed for this shoot is $450 per hour(TOTAL 4 HOURS GIVES YOU $1,800). An advanced deposit of $500.00 will 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 job.

Furthermore, CAN WE TRUST YOU? the check amount to be issued to you would include money for the studio payment. You'd deduct the advanced payment of $500 stated above, and then forward the remainder to the location manager for the location to be secured. I believed this won't be a problem for you to do. The location manager info for the payment will be given to you as soon as the payment is mailed out. (We shouldn't have put this responsibility on you but we just fired our financial expert few days ago due to the mismanagement of company funds) Your understanding and trust is highly appreciated!



If you have read and understood the content of this message kindly filled the " Payment 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:


Best Regards
Marc Derec
661-424-7554(For both call/Text)
NewTalents Inc.  ///

Another person having nothing better to do then to scam people

spoofing alert as well...they got me too sorta...sent me an email from myself.....they spoof your email and send it out and the recipient thinks it is you....nope...going rampant again....changing your password and all does not help..you have to close that email...they have not hacked you...they spoofed your email...they are targeting facebook, business sites, and obviously MM sites so take down email address, only communicate through MM...and unfortunately, end the email account because nobody  can trust that email anymore

This is ongoing. Today I received a message with this same marcderec email address, as well. It was sent via MM message from yet a different MM account than any mentioned above. Note that it was an MM message, not an email, which would lead me to believe this person is hacking into MM accounts.

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Dear MMer,
How are you doing? Your service is needed to be our photographer for an editorial paid project? If you are interested, kindly email the below contact info for the job details.


Contact email: [email protected]


Thanks
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It looked fishy because the owner of the MM account had his email address in his profile, and of course this didn't match. Glad I googled the email address and found this thread. Beware.

I received his email as well, I got a little suspicious and haven't replied to him and now he is texting me. He is asking if I received his email.

I recently got an email "apparently" from a model I worked with in the past. Not via MM.   The CC address list was legit looking (including a couple names I recognized as being real and appropriate to the situation).  Link in the message was malware that the Antivirus program blocked.  Looked closer and the originating mail server was out of country.  The message was a forgery - including the "real" CC list.