NikaRose wrote:
Got a message on here the day someone signed up and they deactivated their account shortly after.

Yes, MM admins caught the scammer and canceled the account.

NikaRose wrote:
The emails were kind of confusing and they overnight shipped a check for me where the amount did not match up to what I was told. They tehn texted me to deposit it in 24 hours.

They wanted you to forward some of the money to a third party, right?  When the check bounced, your bank would have required you to make good on the full amount.

NikaRose wrote:
I call the bank the check was made through, its a scam.
The last groupof numbers at the bottom of the check should match the top right corner numbers(the check number)******************

The return address is for a Lisa Bodell from Futurethink in New York. the bank from Caifornia and the check was a business check with New Creation Engineering & Builders INC DBA New Creationbuilders in Bellflower CA

Good detective work!

LeslieRenae wrote:
Just signed up and I'm getting Bombarded with these fradulent offers!!

The scammers target new profiles and members that list their contact info on their profile. It is best if members do not list the private email or social networking pages because the scammers use that to contact you outside of MM.

If you keep messages strickly via MM messaging it gives us evidence to use (we will ask you to flag and share the PM's with the mods/admins) when shutting the account down.

Mark Salo wrote:

Yes, MM admins caught the scammer and canceled the account.

If an account is deactivated due to scamming, then the system should automatically send emails to everyone that was messaged saying its a scam.
All it takes is one new and naive model who hasn't yet seen the video or read the articles to make the scammers effort worthwhile.

LeslieRenae wrote:
Just signed up and I'm getting Bombarded with these fradulent offers!!

IF the scam offers were made through MM's private messaging system and not through your email please contat a moderator at www.modelmayhem.com/contactamod .  You should copy and paste the message that your received and also mention the account name and/or number.

The gatekeepers catch a vast majority of the scammers that are trying to obtain accounts, but just lke cops trying to catch criminals, there are scammers that slip through.  When a scammer is reported through the contactamod feature their account will be shut down within a very short time.  Not only that but we often can catch many other scammers at the same time.

If the offer was made from an outside source (ie: via email) there is little or nothing that MM can do.

HotFudgeSoup wrote:
If an account is deactivated due to scamming, then the system should automatically send emails to everyone that was messaged saying its a scam.
All it takes is one new and naive model who hasn't yet seen the video or read the articles to make the scammers effort worthwhile.

I'm all for that. 
At one time or another in the past I've alerted people that seemed to have been falling for a nigerian scam, but they would rarely heed the warning.  I guess their egos got in the way, which is what makes the scams keep going.  I didn't do it often... probably can count the number of times on two hands and still have fingers left over.

There probably would be legal liabilities if MM stated that a certain account is a scam so that's probably not a great idea, however I think a message that states "This Account has been removed by MM Administration" would practically serve the same purpose... especially because I've seen that soooo many of the victims think that the scammer closed down the account themselves.

KateNewYork wrote:
This scam is still going on! I got a message on model mayhem to email [email protected] referencing Anne Jet. Today I received an email with telltale scam signs of bad grammar and no space characters after periods. It said I would be mailed part payment. I am to deduct $500 from the payment and send the remaining balance to the wardrobe stylist.

This is a common thing for scammers to do: send a bad check for a higher amount and have the recipient deduct a fee and send, usually via Western Union, a remaining balance to the scammer. But the original check will never go through, so the recipient will be out the amount sent out, in addition to bad check fees.

You should never have given therm your email, or replied to theirs! Expect a bunch more, now.