Mitsu Tsuchiya <[email protected]>
Thu, May 16, 9:26 AM (2 days ago)
to me

Hello, I saw a link to your photography portfolio on model mayhem. I have a photo gig at complex.com, I would love to discuss with you. Kindly email me at [email protected]  for more details.

Best Regards.

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Randy Ritprasert <[email protected]>
Thu, May 16, 1:26 PM (2 days ago)
to Mitsu

Good afternoon Mitsu,

Please provide me more details about the hours needed, context, and responsibilities of this opportunity.

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Good Morning Randy,
    Thanks for the quick response, I'm looking forward to having a good working reference with you at the end. Your photographic works are quite aesthetic and I feel you will be perfect for our Summer season photo shoot gig. Complex.com is searching for a Photographer to work with on an ongoing fashion style and footwear blogging. As the Photographer, you will dictate the creative direction of the shoot and shoot a six-hour outdoor and style focused fashion gig involving a male and a female model, one hair stylist, one makeup artist, and a pro wardrobe stylist. Complex is a media platform and an online community that publishes the best, most diverse and most relevant voices in culture, period. With over 120 million unique monthly visitors and 1.4B monthly page views, Complex makes culture pop from its collection of partners, brands and its hub site Complex.com for one of the most sought after audiences of millennial influential ever assembled.

Job details:

1. You will be required to work with 2 models
2. There will be 3 outfits and foot wears per model, 5 images for each outfit/look, which totals 30 images
3. Outfits/Wardrobe will be supplied by us
4. Location, date, and time will be fixed by you
5. We want 30 professionally taken pictures in High Res Digital Copies
6. Image type: JPG
7. Transfer method: Fileshare or Dropbox
8. Delivery date: July 17th
9. Full budget: $6300
10. Compensation: $2200 ($700 upfront and $1500 final payment)
11. You will hold full image right (Licensor)

As the photographer we want you to handle other aspect of the gig and dictate the creative direction. If you’re interested, kindly get back to me ASAP.

Click on the link for a sample of my work: https://www.complex.com/style/2015/05/h … rial-2015/


Best Regards
Mitsu Tsuchiya

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Randy Ritprasert <[email protected]>
Fri, May 17, 5:31 PM (16 hours ago)
to Mitsu

Hi Mitsu, may I get on a call with you whenever you get the chance?


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Mitsu Tsuchiya
6:09 AM (3 hours ago)
to me

Good Morning Ruttapon,

I look forward to having a wonderful working relationship with you.  Please be informed that You'll receive a Check which covers your upfront payment and the balance would go to the agency sourcing the models, MUA and stylist. I want to make sure you are okay with that. I'll always keep you updated and I'd like you to at least check your email twice a day ( Morning & Afternoon ) for updates and your prompt response will be appreciated.
    The agency providing models, Hair stylist, and MUA is Nathaniel Talent Agency and I will want you to discuss possible dates with the agent ( Mr. Nathaniel Payne) while I work on getting your advance budget and the contract; I need you to email Nathaniel at ( [email protected] ) Kindly reach out to him right away and decide on a possible date for this project. The outfit will be sent to over to Nathaniel and he will let you know as soon as he get them.  I believe in your interest to work for us and I do promise to satisfy your needs.

Best Regards
Mitsu Tsuchiya

Great, thanks Mark. I believe he was trying to impersonate someone else. I questioned why he wouldn’t call me and kept avoiding my question.

Wasn’t completely sure why they don’t pay the agency directly. Things got fishy

Things that make no sense
Why do peeps working for MultiNational Big $$$ companies use free mail address ?...They don't
Why would a client pay for images and give the photographer all the rights ?
Why would a paying client have no creative input ????
Please read this sticky on how scammers work
https://www.modelmayhem.com/forums/post/575330

Randy, if you know the MM profile please pass it on to the mods.   

https://www.modelmayhem.com/contactamod

"$700 upfront" equals Scam!

Scam has been around for decades!  Nigerian Scam

Cease all replies to them, or any other unsolicited emails you will likely now be getting.
Do not try to cash or deposit any payment they may send. They are Fake!
Absolutely, do not forward any portion to any others. You will lose it!

I too have received an identical email verbatim, from Mitzu. Exact same email. if you deposit the check and send it to the agency the scammers will have your account information and funds will bounce, leaving you to owe that money.

I'm trying to verify all info they have sent, as far as names, ect.. This is someone impersonating Mitzu.

General rule of thumb, if it feels like a scam, it's a scam.

Thanks guys, I marked it as scam and didn’t move forward and reported the sender. Also did a lot of research on it. But the phrase too good to be true stands. Someone of this caliber wouldn’t just reach out without a phone call and validation.

I got the same person emailing me as well. The verbiage “Your works are quite aesthetic” threw me off and on second correspondence he used it again. It got weird when he asked for me to pay the crew. I checked out the person in question and his IG account. The emails did not match up. Then I saw your post after some more digging.

It’s too bad.

These forums are visible to everyone in the world. By posting your reply here, complete with your email, you have supplied it to all the scammers who did not have it previously!!

I received the same exact email from Mitsu Tsuchiya a few days ago.  He has an Instagram account and I'm considering notifying him about this:
https://www.instagram.com/mitsu_tsuchiya/?hl=en

Also a website:
http://www.mitsutsuchiya.com/

I just received the same email correspondence.  Glad I did some research on this before going any further.

You have to ask yourself, would _I_ trust someone I've never met except over the internet with several thousand dollars of MY money? (Hell, would I trust my in-person bestie that way?)

So the answer to your question is hell yes that's the setup for a scam, and YOU, my fine feathered friend are the "mark" about to be relieved of the burden of your money if you are THAT trusting. Classic Nigerian scam. Google it.

Yea, hitten me up and sounded scammy, glad i searched a bit, lol.

I got the same email. So much of the email did not feel right, especially the Hotmail email.
I don't know why it amazes me that some people work so hard ripping other people off...

just reporting this, I got the same Email as well. Everyone be careful!
When they ask me to use their tatenl agency then I realize something wrong about this.

Yes, it's a scam. I can tell by his first sentence: "I have a photo gig at complex.com"

A person wouldn't say that they have a "gig" with a certain magazine. They would introduce themselves properly, saying who they are and what their role at the company is, as well as give you a complete job description. If you're ever not sure about someone, contact the place they claim to work for and ask if that person really works for them.