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We shall pay you the $150,000 in London, (scam?)
A model I know received an email saying "Please note that we shall pay you the $150,000 in cash in London". It then went on to tell her she will receive a cashier check for $7,500.00 and she is to purchase an airline ticket for herself and her companion to London. The rest of the money is to be returned to her contact so they can make arrangements for her in London. My question is if they are giving her $150,000, why do they need her to send back the pittance of $5,000. I also would assume all expenses would be taken out of the remaining $145,000 or paid by the promoter. I must say this young lady is a very pretty model but one would assume $150,000 per show model would be on par with many of the top models in the world. In any case, I feel this is a scam and we will do our models well to educate them before they are burned too bad. Worse case is they will end up in London without any money and no one to help. Larry Jan 31 06 08:46 pm Link Duh! OK, how it works is that she deposits the "cashier's check" and buys the ticket, sends $5000 (legitimate cashier's check) to someone, then the bank finds they can't collect on the "cashier's check." It's the same "Widow of the Finance Minister of (name a small African country)" scam that's been going around for quite awhile now. -Don Jan 31 06 08:52 pm Link This is posted already in model matters under... IS THIS A SCAM ?? There was another post before I posted as well. But I seemed to get more responses on mine. Feel free to take a look  Jan 31 06 08:55 pm Link When you get an email like this, view it with full headers and forward it to 419fcd.usss.treas.gov let your tax dollar recipients that are supposed to handle these things do a bit of work. Feb 01 06 01:37 pm Link Habenero Photography wrote: I don't think this is a 419 Nigerian scam.....The 419 scams don't offer to send you money to fly anywhere.. That scam wants you to supposedly help get a huge some (millions) out of a country in exchange for a percentage, they will then require you to give your financial information to gain access to your account or require you to send them money as a token of trust. Once they gain access to your account they clean you out or when the money you send is received you never hear from them again. Feb 01 06 02:01 pm Link David Holloway wrote: It's not a 419 scam it's a variaion of the Western Union advance scam.... but a scam it is. Feb 01 06 02:30 pm Link studio36uk wrote: I agree....A scam.... Feb 01 06 02:33 pm Link I've seen the same one going around targeting wedding photographers where they want to send a Cashiers check in excess of the deposit amount and then have you write them a check back for the overage. Eric Foltz Feb 01 06 02:43 pm Link Eric Foltz wrote: Identical deal - with identical results Feb 01 06 04:18 pm Link |
