Does this modeling offer seem legit?

I get messages on a modeling website all he time that seem fake or a scam. Does this one seem legit? It seems sketchy to me.

ECO-MODELING-COMPANY is given you an opportunity to participate in

the upcoming shoot organized by City Model Magazine for the

professional photo shoot. No nudity, fetish, bondage and other adult

content stuff.



DATE AND TIME:

This exposition is going to be held on the 15 SPET 2011 in NYC,New

York.The shoot shall commence by 10 am and comes to an end by 2pm

which would take you complete 4 hours.



PROJECT DETAILS:

This project will be the first to organize by ECO- MODELING- COMPANY.

And is basically on photo shoot to display latest fashions and

designers for commercial purpose and be inform that it is an outdoor

show and it would be publicized.



SHOOTING VENUE:

Zandieh Studio

300 W 43rd St # 600B

New York, NY 10036-6452



TRAVELING EXPENSES:

All traveling Expenses, Food and Accommodations/Hotel would be covered

by the company.



ESCORT:

As matter of choice,you can bring along any of your choice to the

shooting venues as your protector.



COMPENSATION:

The company would be paying you a sum of $500 as your part payment





TOTAL PAYMENT

The total payment for this project is $4000 and you will be

you shall receive your balance on the day of the shooting



MAKE UP ARTIST AND PHOTOGRAPHER:

The company has personal photographers and makeup artist,so we have

made all necessary arrangement for your good looking on that day and

also our photographers are available to give you best directive.





If you are interested,Get back to us with the below information.



Name :

Models Only

Age:

Gender:

Height:

Ethnicity:

Skin Color:

Hair Color:

Hair length:

Eye Color:

Modeling Style Preference:

1 Recent Picture:

Experience:

Health condition:

Nearest airport:



Also get back to us with the following information for profiling.



PAYMENT INFORMATION:

FULL NAME:.....

FULL HOME ADDRESS:....(NO P.O.BOX Addresses)

CITY:

STATE:

ZIP CODE:

HOUSE PHONE NUMBER:

CELL PHONE:



Note All Replies Should be Sent to Email:ecomodelingcompany@gmail.com



Thanks

Warmest Regard,

ECO- MODELING-COMPANY

Director of Casting,

915th Ave, New York 10013,New York City.Does this modeling offer seem legit?
100% scam.



There is no job.



There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.



The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "secretary/assistant/accountant" and will demand you cash a large fake check sent on a stolen UPS/FedEx billing account number and send most of the "money" via Western Union or moneygram back to the scammer posing as the "clothing supply company" or "travel agent" while you "keep" a small portion as your "paycheck". When your bank realizes the check is fake and it bounces, you get the real life job of paying back the bank for the bounced check fees and all the bank's money you sent to an overseas criminal.



Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.



When you refuse to send him your cash he will send increasingly nasty and rude emails trying to convince you to go through with his scam. The scammer could also create another fake name and email address like "FBI@ gmail.com", "police_person @hotmail.com" or "investigator @yahoo.com" and send emails telling you the job is legit and you must cash the fake check and send your money to the scammer or you will face legal action. Just ignore, delete and block those email addresses. Although, reading a scammer's attempt at impersonating a law enforcement official can be extremely funny.



Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.



You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.



Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.



Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.



6 "Rules to follow" to avoid most fake jobs:

1) Job asks you to use your personal bank account and/or open a new one.

2) Job asks you to print/mail/cash a check or money order.

3) Job asks you to use Western Union or moneygram in any capacity.

4) Job asks you to accept packages and re-ship them on to anyone.

5) Job asks you to pay visas, travel fees via Western Union or moneygram.

6) Job asks you to sign up for a credit reporting or identity verification site.



Avoiding all jobs that mention any of the above listed 'red flags' and you will miss nearly all fake jobs. Only scammers ask you to do any of the above. No. Exceptions. Ever. For any reason.



If you google "fake check cashing job", "fraud Western Union scam", "check mule moneygram scam" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.Does this modeling offer seem legit?
100% SCAM - this is the same language and format as other scams going around
1 - NO real model agency uses a free @gmail address
2 - There is no agency in NY called Eco Modeling Company and that is NOT a valid NY address
3 - NOBODY books a model they have never seen in person on a job. If they thought you had potential you and 50 other models would be invited to their office for a go-see and fitting
4 - NO model who is not with an agency gets paid $4000 for anything.
5 - there is NO magazine called City Model Magzine
6 - there is NO Zandieh Studio at that address - that is used over and over in Nigerian modeling scams
http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtop鈥?/a>
http://meredithaiager.hubpages.com/hub/C鈥?/a> - scroll to the post by LD 21 months ago
Here is the REAL Zandieh Studios - I can guarantee if you call them they will know nothing about a shoot with Eco Modeling on the 15th - that's the last day of NY Fashion Week and any real model agency would be only focused on fashion week not a shoot
http://www.zandiehstudio.com/contact.htm鈥?/a>
7 - nobody pays a model upfront or on the day of the shoot. You would get paid 30 days after the shoot

Never give your home address to anyone you have never met for any reason. Not only are there Nigerian check overpayment scams like this, but there are pervs who pose as model scouts and photographers all the time in order to lure young girls and sexually assault them. If they have your photo and address, they can target you for abduction on your way to/from your house.

Want to prove this is a scam, write back to say that you are represented by Click Models in NY and you need their phone number so your agent can call them to get all the details of the shoot and send them a booking form. Say that your agency charges a 20% booking fee due upon confirmation of the booking