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IsabelleStephen

Posts: 2

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Hello everybody,

I just wanted to tell the girls to be careful when they received and email from a guy who says he's an agent or has a modeling agencies.

If he doesn't have a website or his website starts with ''www.freewebs...'' it's not a good sign. If his email address is a hotmail, or yahoo, it's not a good sign either. If he tells you you have to pass some kind of an audition that you can do at home with a webcam and he tells you to get naked even though he said before he's not into the porn business, BEWARE!

There's that guy who contacted me yesterday telling me he would help me find work, I wouldn't have anything to pay, he would keep 10% of every jobs he finds me BUT even though I'm already a professional model and have a portfolio was still asking me to get naked for him in front of my webcam. I asked him tons of questions and finally learn that he's 25 years old, still lives with his parents, haven't done anything yet in the modeling business and he expect to find works for models by looking through the ads on the web...

So be careful girls, don't be shy to ask tons of questions, and if something smells fishy don't take a chance.

Hope that could help somebody out there. smile

Isabelle xx

Nov 28 06 10:44 am Link

Photographer

Emeritus

Posts: 22000

Las Vegas, Nevada, US

This is like the 400th time this has been reported, but I suppose one more won't hurt.  Sigh.

Nov 28 06 10:47 am Link

Photographer

A Traveler

Posts: 5506

San Francisco, California, US

haha. at least it wasn't someone asking if it WAS fake.

Nov 28 06 10:51 am Link

Model

Cristina Ashley

Posts: 1294

Buffalo, Illinois, US

Couture Imagery wrote:
haha. at least it wasn't someone asking if it WAS fake.

ha.

Nov 28 06 10:54 am Link

Photographer

none of the above

Posts: 3528

Marina del Rey, California, US

IsabelleStephen wrote:
Hope that could help somebody out there. smile

thread kill.  proceed here:  www.newmodels.com

--face reality

Nov 28 06 10:58 am Link

Photographer

American Glamour

Posts: 38813

Detroit, Michigan, US

TXPhotog wrote:
This is like the 400th time this has been reported, but I suppose one more won't hurt.  Sigh.

I misread your post.  I thought you said this was the 4000th time this was reported.  I felt that was an exaggeration.  400 might be a little bit low wink

Nov 28 06 11:02 am Link