Digital Design House wrote:
Get the money up front . With any new client be it individual or corporate , the check has to clear before we do anything . If its an emergency production on a couple days notice thats fine but its 100% cash up front ...easy . We are a little different because much of those "emergency" calls are from corporate clients wanting video which takes a crew ... and I couldn't tell my guys that they weren't getting paid because I didn't get paid ...

The check won't clear, period. No point in even going any farther.

Greg Kolack wrote:
2 words say it all:

"Hi Model"

FYI - It may help in the future to take your email off your profile.

This.

Britt Ryan wrote:
Hi Model,
I'm currently looking to hire a model for a fashion catalog shoot.I've a client who wants to update her catalog with the new year fashion outfits release and i'm interested in you for the shooting.We are looking for models both male and female to take shoots that will make this event unforgetable.
All participating models will be paid all photo shoots for the event would include,shoot with cars,motorcycles,and music artist which would be about 12 different fashion outfits put-together,also we intend to use most of the pics in our first catalog launch and our calendar for year 2011.Your pay for the shoot is 1800$.
NOTE:No Nudity
Sam

[email protected]

i got one just like this as well, the money was different and it had a hotmail address instead but everything else was the exact same. how the person wrote this letter made it completely obvious. i mean why would you give someone unexpierenced (me) that kind of money? no one would.

Flex Photography wrote:
Totally Nigerian scam, Britt!

A few clues:
- Unsolicited email, out of the blue
- "Hello model"
- up front large amount to model unknown to them
- his Yahoo email address, rather than a company one
- Nobody starts to shoot a 2011 calendar on December 18, 2010!
- on&on&on...!

You got this because you have your email displayed in your profile, and also in both your Castings!

I strongly advise that you remove your email from your profile! It is visible to everyone in the world, not just members! It will be like a magnet attracting spams, scams, and perverts! Remove it, and just use MM's private internal messages with members. Don't trust any contact you get solely by email! You will very likely still get more scams for a bit, as you are now on lists worldwide, as an easy target! Do not reply! Do not pass on further info such as address, phone, bank or visa info, etc.!

Also visible are MM's Tags, Photo Comments, Castings, and these Forums, so don't put anything private there, either. Edit your Castings to remove it!

If an offer is to good to be true, it usually isn't!
Enjoy the site!
Fred

My email isn't on my page, but I still got this letter to my MM account.

Savannah Nicole wrote:

My email isn't on my page, but I still got this letter to my MM account.

Use the CAM and let them know the MM number of the account you received that email.

I myself just like messing with these people and debate with them, tell them I will not accept payment up front and I will collect on day of shoot. Then they tell me there is a registration fee. I tell them to use the money they were gonna pay me up front to go toward that "fee". I think its funny the way they try to scam, but of course I have a lot of time while at work, so I humor and end up proving them wrong and make them look like morons more then they are.  I also tell them I have reported their email address as a possible scam artist (there are some sites geared towards reporting model scams)

ModestD wrote:

Use the CAM and let them know the MM number of the account you received that email.

I myself just like messing with these people and debate with them, tell them I will not accept payment up front and I will collect on day of shoot. Then they tell me there is a registration fee. I tell them to use the money they were gonna pay me up front to go toward that "fee". I think its funny the way they try to scam, but of course I have a lot of time while at work, so I humor and end up proving them wrong and make them look like morons more then they are.  I also tell them I have reported their email address as a possible scam artist (there are some sites geared towards reporting model scams)

Replying to these will backfire on you, as, until you reply, they don't know your email is active. By replying, you confirm this to them, & they sell your email to scammer lists around the world! Your number of scams will go up and up!
Best advice is do not reply at all!

Flex Photography wrote:

Replying to these will backfire on you, as, until you reply, they don't know your email is active. By replying, you confirm this to them, & they sell your email to scammer lists around the world! Your number of scams will go up and up!
Best advice is do not reply at all!

I appreciate your concern, but the email address I give out is specifically for spam and not my main e-mail. They can spam it up all they want. I get at least 45-50 a day. Its my shit n giggles email address I guess you could say, lol.

Dzeny Dzenita wrote:
And here we go again, got this two days ago:

********


Hi Model,
We are currently looking to hire a model for a fashion catalog shoot.I've a client who wants to update her catalog with the new year fashion outfits release and i'm interested in you for the shooting.We are looking for models both male and female to take shoots that will make this event unforgettable.

All participating models will be paid all photo shoots for the event would include,shoot with cars,motorcycles,and music artist which would be about 12 different fashion outfits put-together,also we intend to use most of the pics in our first catalog launch and our calendar for year 2011/2012.

Your pay for the shoot is €1800.NOTE:No Nudity
Brant..

e-mail me back at [email protected]


*************

i also received the same email from this address, one day earlier:

[email protected]


Don get it, what do they get out of this??
I should just tell them to give me the €4oo in advance (sending them to my "random payment" account, haha) and then never talk to them again

As stated above, remove your email from your profile. It is visible to every scammer in the world, and is an open invitation to them! Do not reply to them. That will just generate many more!

It works on greed and people who are naive! They send an amount that is too big, tell you to deposit it, then quickly send the extra amount on to someone else. (MUA, etc.) After you do, you find out their original payment is no good, & it is actually them that you have sent the extra to, which is now lost!