Thursday, June 27, 2013

Some people are a danger to themselves

A model has posted the following on a well known photography site messageboard:

"I was contacted by a friend on facebook who i added and have never met. He mentioned could i go to Cardiff (from Cornwall) to audition. This work would be paid of £1500 per day and travelling and stay expenses all covered if im a successful candidate. This would entail publications in such magazines as playboy, GQ, nuts, zoo and many others. He said this "The audition is very straight forward. I'll meet you from the train and we simply take a variety of shots in my car to use as audition photos. It'll only take an hour of your time at the very most".

Is this a scam and should i trust this photographer?"


My favourite reply comes from a photographer who is one of the most respected and highly sought after photographers specialising in glamour photography:


"I have to be honest, if you could even consider that this is not a scam, for your own safety, I suggest you quit modelling and get off the Internet immediately.

If the guy sent you a picture with a sign balanced on his knob, saying "avoid me, I'm a scammer", it would probably be less obviously a scam".


4 comments:

Span Ows said...

Unbelievable...and hilarious response. The unfortunate thing is many wouldn't even sk the question and go along expected a nice time and big pay off.

See you have many posts again, will read and comment another day.

Paul said...

Hi Span - yes, despite some health issues I have actually written a post everyday for the past week.

Thanks for your comments.

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