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I received the following email this morning: "Photographer Is Needed From: Falynn Harris <[email protected]> Sent: Tue 9/1/2015 2:10 AM To: Falynn Harris <[email protected]> Hello, My name is Miss Falynn Harris, I'm a freelance modeling agent..I got your contact on Model mayhem. I was thrilled when i saw your work and I appreciate it. I work with a newly opened clothing store named Exclusive Wears.Currently we are working on promotional sales and advert for the store; There are some models that are ready for the publishing and posing of the Stores Sales Promo Magazine to boost their sales and help them pave there way up the clothing industry meeting up with the world of fashion today. Sincerely I will be honored if i can work with you on this project,you can come on board has a professional Photographer,Shots will be taken in different cities including your location to advertise the stores products ranging from casual wears,Dinner gowns,co operate wears female if you are interested.Please get back to me. Looking forward to read back from you before it's too late . Thanks Miss Falynn Harris. Text: (949) 232-1452 Email: [email protected] " I have no doubt this is a scam and just wanted to give everyone a heads-up since MM was mentioned as how they found me. Mike Sep 01 15 07:13 am Link PictureThisOP wrote: Did they send this via MM mail? If so, you should CAM it and flag it for the moderators to remove the profile. If they sent it to you vis smoother method, you should remove your outside contact info fromm your profile. Sep 01 15 07:26 am Link Interesting that they would put a phone number...I wonder what happens when you call it? Sep 01 15 07:35 am Link  Moderator Note!Please see this video and read the articles: Avoiding scams: The basics Watch the video and read the article. Sep 01 15 08:01 am Link Sep 01 15 08:43 am Link It looks much like this email from 2009 although the sender's name used to be Tiffanie Caulfield. http://www.thephotoforum.com/threads/jo … rs.187425/ https://www.modelmayhem.com/forums/post/538912 Orange county (Irvine) phone number, T-mobile - I wonder if there is a way to forward the email to the county parole system. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prepaid: Not just for burner phones anymore http://www.androidcentral.com/prepaid-n … es-anymore Sep 01 15 09:21 am Link You are new to MM, post 5 photos and get a great job offer. Yeah I can believe it. But then I still believe in the Tooth Fairy. Sep 01 15 10:08 am Link It's an old scam. Why is a "freelance modeling agent" contacting a photographer? And what the hell does this mean? "products ranging from casual wears,Dinner gowns,co operate wears female if you are interested" Sep 01 15 10:22 am Link It was a good read. I laughed a bit out loud. It went down hill after the first sentence. When will these people ever learn. Thanks for sharing. R- Sep 02 15 01:19 pm Link Ha, ha. I got the same email. It's a scam. but is sounds good. Sep 02 15 01:26 pm Link I got the same as well and trashed it. Sep 02 15 03:07 pm Link PictureThisOP wrote: I yahoo-ed "PictureThisOP" which took me to your Facebook and your email address. Sep 02 15 03:53 pm Link |
