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This is suspicious right?
I got this as a message: "Will pay 225-250 thousand dollars CASH PAID UP FRONT IN ADVANCE for photography please forward your tel # for further details" That's suspicious right? (note: I'm not even a photographer..) Aug 30 21 08:38 pm Link *Important note: be weary of cash-advance scams such as money orders or checks someone will mail you. You can research this all over the web incase you are not familiar with it. Don't get scammed! * For those interested, here's how the rest of the convo goes: Zura Why forward a telephone # if you can tell me on here? Holly Because people whose preferred manner of communication is hiding anonymously behind electronic devices such as computer keyboards make me verry, very nervous. The first thing which comes to my mind is "scammer" Zura If you were the one who reached out to me with the original email though, why would I be the one who is a scammer? Holly Well that's truly hilarious. Undoubtedly you're a Trump supporter. Last I heard anything so ridiculous & absurd was the last time I had the misfortune of hearing Trump utter a few words. Zura So, you get my email address somewhere (probably off the MM site), send me a suspicious email about making tons of money in cash for photography, then when I call you out on being a hypocrite-you start attacking me with political garbage? Are you on drugs or something? Holly Not political at all. I'm a very, very successful Oxford graduate who travels every corner of the globe & Trump is universally accepted as the planet's biggest idiotic moron however it seems that over 70 million Americans particularly in the south seem to believe that this idiot has a functioning brain. Those of us who are sane & deal with Americans use Trump as a yardstick for sanity & intelligence. we are very well aware that anyone who does not recognize Trump as a bankrupt ,racist, illiterate, incestuous, lying thief can't be much better than he is. You've very unwisely thrown away an outrageous amount of money. All the best. Zura I hope you feel better now Aug 30 21 08:44 pm Link Wow! That is one suspicious hustler... bring up politics from a modeling site?? One isse with having your email posted on here is getting scammers like that. Do you know what profile this person has on here? You should report them. Aug 30 21 10:39 pm Link I could be wrong, but I don't think even A-List celebrities make this kind of money for a single photo shoot. Aug 31 21 12:29 am Link Zura, you've made at least 4 threads recently about "sketchy" offers. by now you should be a pro at spotting a scam. hint: theyre all pretty much the same, and if you have to ask if its suspicious, then it is! also you've been informed multiple times before how to avoid being the target for scammers. do you really need us to keep telling you that a ridiculous offer is ridiculous? stay safe!  https://www.modelmayhem.com/forums/post … st19933421 https://www.modelmayhem.com/forums/post … st19937278 Aug 31 21 12:43 am Link Zura Moonleaf wrote: Thank you for sharing your exchange. It was entertaining. Please feel free to express yourself here. Other people do, you should too. Aug 31 21 05:16 am Link Zura, Thanks for some entertainment in an otherwise humdrum day. Aug 31 21 06:51 am Link This is just 'bait' to see how gullible the person is that answers the original message. Once they find a gullible person, the crooks have many different techniques they use to extract more and more money from the victim. Some people have been bilked out of tens of thousands of dollars in such schemes. Aug 31 21 09:26 am Link Ken Marcus Studios wrote: i'm not smart enough to have any money so i wont be stupid enough to have it stolen. Aug 31 21 11:27 am Link The thing that motivates/drives me to post any of these is because when I get emails like that, the first thing I do is a search in the forums for key words, and when I can't find it- I search google. When I can't find it there (cause it's a scammer that hasn't been documented yet) then I post it . I'm going to start posting on reddit instead though, because sometimes the moderators here will remove my posts, which defeats the whole purpose lol Aug 31 21 07:34 pm Link Zura Moonleaf wrote: Thank you for posting. I enjoyed it, and appreciate hearing about these scams especially when there is a comical story behind it. There is not a lot of posts on the forums anymore, much less entertaining ones. Aug 31 21 11:58 pm Link Zura Moonleaf wrote: Why would you respond to such a obvious scam ? Sep 01 21 12:19 am Link Zura Moonleaf wrote: i appreciate your efforts and intention. really theres no reason to document. Sep 01 21 01:58 am Link John Jebbia wrote: Last I heard of anything this ludicrous was I was watching that documentary on the Fyre Festival on NetFlix. Supposedly, and this is a very big SUPPOSEDLY, Kendall Jenner got paid that much to do an Instagram post to promote the Fyre Festival. I say, "supposedly" because a lot of people didn't get paid by the organizers; not only the daily workers that helped setup the facilities, but also the musical acts that were booked. Sep 01 21 09:06 am Link Zura Moonleaf wrote: There's the Huge clue in your first line! You keep getting scam emails, because you have your email posted in your profile, visible to every scammer in the world! MM Profiles are viewable by everyone in the world! Never display your email, phone number, address, bank account number, passwords, or any other private info in your profile! It is an open invitation to scammers around the world! You should remove it right away, and only share it very selectively, (and privately) with limited members, and only after you have checked them out and found them yo be professional and verified who they are. Don't trust any of the unsolicited outside emails you will still be getting and don't reply to them. With random outside emails, they can claim to be whoever they want and you can't confirm it. It is the last way anyone legitimate would contact you! Sep 17 21 08:34 pm Link |
