Hi everyone,

I am new to modelmayhem and have just been on for a week or so. I just received an email from Deola Sagoe Fashion House Ltd which I have attached at the bottom of this message. I typed the name in both google and yahoo search engines and a lot came up on the designer Deola Sagoe. I also tried calling them but the lines were busy all the time.

Just worried if it might be a scam, so decided to post on here asking if anyone has heard of them or received a simular email?

Please read the attachment and let me know what you guys think.



Cheers,

Kamil


Hello Dear,


We at DEOLA SAGOE FASHION HOUSE LTD  are pleased to introduce you to yet another edition of our beauty /fashion show tagged 'COLD AND ICY' .We go around Africa/world yearly to recruit talented people like yourself because we believe in the saying that 'variety is the spice of life' ,Hence,we believe that when we have people from diverse backgrounds and diverse cultures which arises from different nationalities and different trainings in your specific field,it brings about more glamour and glitz to our shows.

The concept of our show is to bring a lot of talents from around the world.There will be loads of designers like Dolce&Gabanna,Tommy Hilfiger,Salvatore Ferragamo,TM Lewin&sons,Prada,Gucci,Ralph Lauren and a whole lot of others and you will work with them to make this show a success.

This show is gonna be holding in PARIS for 3 days btw NOV 23rd and NOV 26th.We are at the moment recruiting models,dancers,photographers,beauticians,videographers,ushers,actors/actresses,etc.

All accomodation,flight and insurance will be handled by us for your full comfort.Moreso,you will be paid upfront.We will send the sum of £500 for now and you will receive the balance sum of £500 after the show.
 
You will be required to fill the form attached below and also send us a couple of your work for a brief review.Once that has been assessed,you will receive an email confirming your employment and also notifying you as to when you will your first instamental payment.

So far so good,you are qualified for our position and hence we have decided to contact you and let you know that it will be a honour for us if you work with us.

You will be required to fill this employment form and return back to us asap to confirm your employment.

                          EMPLOYMENT FORM
Please, you are to fill out this form accurately with correct information and/or
attach any form of your identification to this form before submission.


FIRST NAME:                         MIDDLE NAME:                       LAST NAME:

ADDRESS:

CITY:           
                         
STATE:

ZIP CODE:                             COUNTRY:

HOME
PHONE:                      OFFICE PHONE:                      MOBILE:

GENDER:                               MARITAL STATUS:

AGE:                                      NATIONALITY:

CURRENT JOB:

WORKING EXPERIENCE/SPECILISATION:

ATTESTATION
I
___________________________________hereby accept the job as a
representative/employee of the above mentioned company here in the United
Kingdom, I shall also inform the company a week
ahead if eventually l want to discontinue this job, so as to terminate
all payments coming my way to avoid conflict.
Signed by me.
.....................
Your faithfully,
************.
===================================================

Its real and legit and we have our own way of verifing  information given to
us to ascertain if its genuine or otherwise.We also have security agents working with us in collaboration with the FBI,Scotland Yard and INTERPOL just in case you turn out to be a cheat.Just in case you are wondering,I got your email address via the MODEL MAYHEM website.
To learn more about Deola Sagoe,kindly visit these links below:

http://generationnubian.blogspot.com/20 … -show.html
http://www.capetownfashionweek.co.za/de … aSagoe.asp
http://fashion.psfk.com/2006/06/deola_sagoe_afr.html

YOURS FAITHFULLY,
PAUL SMITH,
RECRUITMENT DIRECTOR,
DEOLA SAGOE FASHION
HOUSE LIMITED,
12,ILOJO CRESENT
VICTORIA ISLAND,
LAGOS,NIGERIA.
+234-80-244-38532
+234-1-4765962

If it comes from Nigeria, it's a scam.  Period, final.

Helpful link:  http://www.newmodels.com/Nigeria.html

Thanks Shyly,

I thought so as they say if its too good to be true then it is and since the name came up in the search engines I thought hmm maybe, but I know from being with my agency that designers only book models from proper model agencies so I thought I'd check. I am with an agency here in london but this is the first time I have put my self on a site like this as I wanted to meet more photographers in my area to build up my portfolio.

That link is very helpful Cheers for that,

Hope you had a good weekend,

Many thanks,

Kamil

I would assume that it's a scam as well.  As someone said before, a major designer probably isn't going to resort to internet models if they can get them from agencies.

It's a scam. I got the same e-mail a few times in my yahoo account. I am assuming they saw my modeling portfolio on here, and/or saw something on yahoo at one time. Either way, I steer clear of anything coming from Nigeria when it comes to either modeling or money.

It sounds like a SCAM.

great avatar man.....I'll scam you anytime lol

This scam has been floating around for months. If you were to fall for it, you would soon be asked to send money to "secure" your travel and accomodations in Paris. They would come up with some totally bogus reason for you to send them money rather than just having them pay for it in the first place. But, of course, they woud reimburse you ..... sure they would.

Send them a nice letter and tell them that you have five million dollars that you must invest, and would be happy to deposit in their accounts, if only they would be so kind as to give you their account numbers and passcodes.

LOL.......Thank you all for the input and advice.  Hope you all had a great weekend and wishing you all a great start to the week.

Cheers,

Kamil

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