To my peer photographers, thought share the following information, that I received in my PM. I suspect its a scam like the Nigerian Million Dollar scam. I am posting the content of the PM after removing the identifiable details of the sender.

trying to sort out most things so we can send you details to
    GQ and MAXIM magazine for preview cause we work in collaboration with them so if you are interested get back to me today with the following information below so that we can arrange your part payment for you to be rest assured($300).The part payment would be mailed directly to you alongside the studio fee of $1150 making the total payment to $1450 and immediately you have it i will instruct
you and give you the studio agents name you are to send the studio rental fee to.Then you will be paid the balance immediately after the shooting,I hope this is quite check your email on a regular basis,i might have updates for you.
                                                       
Full Name...
contact Address...(No P.O.BOX)
City...
State...
Zip Code...
Phone #...
Occupation...                                                       
So Kindly mail me to my personal mail or add me so that we can chat at @yahoo.com

Thanks,
Ms (deleted)


My reason for posting this is to forewarn or raise the red flag for others.

Obvious overpayment scam.  Make sure you CAM about it.

Take the word "maybe" out of the thread title and it'll be correct.

I think the moderators should block this persons MM account if not delete it.

Copypasta response below... but the last paragraph is really one you should make note of, since you said you got the message in your PMs here.

It's old, and the person in the email you received isn't real, and isn't the same person numerous other people will receive and email from today, tomorrow, or in 10 years.  The email itself is ever-changing, though the message itself remains the same.  It's far more helpful to educate people on how to figure out if the message they've received is a scam based on a few key things (bad grammar/spelling is one of them), instead of copying and pasting the entire message here. 

Here is some information on how to spot the scam, instead of how to just spot one instance of it. 

www.newmodels.com gives great info on the famous Nigerian scam.

Check out The New Model's Guide to the Industry and Scams here on MM.

And let's not forget Roger's article, which is a great resource.

Remove your email from your profile, if it's there.  There's no reason for it to be there, as MM has a messaging system.  Messages you receive do not deplete your number of messages you are allotted to send in a 24 hour period, and you can exchange email addresses after receiving a message if you choose to communicate that way.

Don't reply to these kinds of emails.  It only confirms that your email address is active, and often results in your email address being sold to other scammers and spammers.  You can, with some email programs, flag the message as spam, and should then delete it.  Again, don't reply, not even with a snarky "I'm smarter than you" response.

If you received the message from an MM member, you need to let site moderators know immediately.  Take a screenshot of the PM, upload it to a public image hosting site (like Photobucket, Flickr, or even Myspace) and send a link to the screenshot to moderators via the "Contact a Mod" system.  Be sure to include the person's MM information as well.  You can open a CAM directly here: http://www.modelmayhem.com/contactamod.php

If you smell rotten fish . . . . guess what?

You've got a rotten fish



KM

you didnt seriously question the reality of this did you?