TAMPA BAY MODELING - JULY 2008

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Tampa Modeling Scam Alerts on Top Tampa Modeling Scams

Modeling Job Scams - Modeling Consultation Scams - Modeling School Scams

UPDATE 06/24/08 - There are reports of more victims of Tampa modeling job scams advertised in newspapers and on the radio. THEY ARE ALL MODELING SCAMS, and we haven't seen a single one of them pan out! These modeling job scams all lead to modeling consultation scams, modeling and talent agency placement scams, model management scams, modeling portfolio photography scams, modeling school scams, model search scams, and other types of modeling scams! At this time, it is our intention to address, combat, undermine, and cripple Tampa modeling job scams, and we are looking into taking legal action against some of them (we are hoping that they are stupid enough continue to steal things from our site, which we do not allow or approve of. It's stealing, and if they do it to us, they will not hesitate to do it to you). If you check into one of these scams with the hope of being considered for modeling jobs (often with the claim of "no experience necessary", which does not work in the business world), and they turn around and try to sell you modeling portfolio photography or other services, it may just be a bait and switch, which may be a case of a deceptive trade practice or FRAUD! If this happens to you, take a copy of their ad (if it is the paper), get whatever they are trying to sell you in writing (ALWAYS get everything in writing), and contact your LOCAL POLICE, the STATE ATTORNEY, and the FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION (FTC) to REPORT THE MODELING SCAM. Help get these con artists criminally charged, convicted, and out of business!!!!

Florida State Statute 817.41 Misleading advertising prohibited.

(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to make or disseminate or cause to be made or disseminated before the general public of the state, or any portion thereof, any misleading advertisement. Such making or dissemination of misleading advertising shall constitute and is hereby declared to be fraudulent and unlawful, designed and intended for obtaining money or property under false pretenses.

We really need the new modeling scam analysis database which will debut on Florida Modeling Career. It is much more advanced than our current scam database, and up to ten times more effective. Once it is up, we will overhaul and redo our Tampa modeling scam analysis database with the new technology. Independent Modeling, Tampa Talent Scams, Tampa Model Search, and an armada of other web sites will utilize the new format, too. It is a BAD time to be operating any modeling scam in Tampa, and we will put many of these people out of business in the next year.

UPDATE 06/23/08 - Popular Tampa Bay model, singer, host, and actress Ann Poonkasem was a guest once again on the June 20 FOX 13 Lightning Round. Check it out. Tampa Bay Modeling has seen a lot of coverage from FOX lately, and you can expect coverage from other television stations and print media shortly as our ranks of PR models increase; we have many more models scheduled to appear in the coming weeks.

UPDATE 06/23/08 - Florida Modeling Career is scheduled to launch this week, and with it three parallel modeling job boards will go online, one for Florida Modeling Career, one for Tampa Bay Modeling, and one for Independent Modeling. We feel that maintaining top modeling job boards will be critical for our war against modeling scams, so there will be three focusing on their relevant target markets, and we are aggressively pursuing this. The modeling job board will feature Independent Modeling's new modeling career risk analysis tool and new resources designed to defend against anyone trying to steal our job lead information and attempting to sell it to models. HINT: Don't do it, as it will destroy your credibility (have you looked at our search engine performance? Can you risk doing something wrong when models have a good chance of figuring out the true source?) as well as land you in a lot of legal trouble. We are looking forward to upcoming legal challenges, and you don't want to be the first.

UPDATE 06/19/08 - Florida Modeling Career, the Florida-regional version of Tampa Bay Modeling, is almost finished and is about to launch. This web site has the latest technology, and is designed to have up to ten times the performance of Tampa Bay Modeling (most of this web site, Tampa Bay Modeling, is built on content and technology created back in 2004! The latest Raptor 3 upgrade has brought us up to speed, but much of our content is old; we still have it up because it works). Florida Modeling Career has a lot of updated content, too, such as a brand new modeling scam analysis database and new modeling scam-fighting tools. There will also be a heavy emphasis on an advanced modeling job resource, which ties into the modeling scam database. The modeling job resource is an updated version of the one developed by Independent Modeling, and once it launches on Florida Modeling Career, there will be versions on Tampa Bay Modeling and Independent Modeling (it has been determined that having modeling job boards and resources which are dominate in the modeling industry is critical for combating several types of modeling scams, so this is now a priority, especially since we already have the top search engine results for modeling jobs in Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay Modeling will not be left out, either; once the new technology has been online on Florida Modeling Career, all of our sites will benefit. The new scam analysis database format and all-new content will be adapted for Tampa Bay Modeling, Tampa Bay Acting, Tampa Bay Film, Tampa Bay Photographers, Independent Modeling, Independent Acting, Independent Talent Network, and some other web sites. Tampa Modeling Agency, Tampa Model Search, Tampa Talent Scams, Tampa Talent Agency, and Advanced Model are working on massive, next-generation talent scam analysis databases and resources. Oh, yes, and we also have a secret project launching this week, as well as other updates. Look for Dark Blue this weekend.

They were scammed long before they arrived at the closed doors of the modeling school. The actual scam was the deceptive way that it was sold, and everyone needs to realize that. The closed-down business only served to make what happened obvious, and was a glaring mistake in an otherwise slick con. - Tampa Bay Modeling site Director C. A. Passinault comments on the fallout of a radio-advertised modeling school scam reported by the news media in downtown Tampa; see Modeling Job Scams and his latest opinion post for more information.

UPDATE 06/14/08 - We've been busy at Tampa Bay Modeling, and a lot has been going on. Where to begin? We'll start with the big story.
Tampa Bay Modeling director C. A. Passinault and two professional models, both provided by Passinault, were interviewed by FOX 13 on Monday, June 9, 2008 in response to a press release issued by Tampa Bay Modeling on Thursday, June 5. Passinault and our staff were annoyed by a news story about a modeling school scam which aired on several Tampa Bay news stations earlier that week, and Passinault decided to hit the scam back hard by issuing a formal response. The Tampa Bay modeling market is ours, and we don't appreciate modeling scams operating here and undermining the integrity of the modeling industry.
The FOX 13 news story on Tampa Bay Modeling aired in prime time on Thursday, June 12, 2008. It is our hope that this story will help models avoid modeling scams as well as assist professionals with taking charge of their careers. Expect more news coverage in the future; we are working on obtaining coverage from national news programs (which may go to Independent Modeling or the new Florida Modeling Career site, the latter being a Florida-region version of Tampa Bay Modeling).
Click on the FOX 13 Tampa Bay Modeling Story to see the interview. A new browser window will open so you can watch it and return to our site after you are done.
Concerning our war against modeling scams, we have been working on several things for some time now which will take the war to the next level this summer. With work on TampaTalentScams.Com progressing and the procurement of TampaModelSearch.Com, TampaModelingAgency.Com, at least two talent blogs (replacing the mail bags and run by several professional models and actors), and now FloridaModelingCareer.Com, our effectiveness fighting the most common modeling scams and modeling scams in general will increase exponentially. A year from now, these modeling scams will find it very hard to operate and to stay in business.
Mentioning Florida Modeling Career, which is going to be the Florida-region version of Tampa Bay Modeling, the staff of Tampa Bay Modeling will be working on this new modeling resource web site this weekend. The Florida Modeling Career site will be a Raptor 3 web site, like this one, with some major improvements. While some improvements will not be immediately obvious to most visitors, as they may address things like search engine performance, Florida Modeling Career will feature an Independent Modeling-developed modeling job board and the most advanced modeling scam analysis database ever developed (ours is over four years old, and while it works well, we've already long been working on the next one!). The new modeling scam database will be many times more effective and easier to use than our present one, and once it is online it will be ported to Tampa Bay Modeling and Independent Modeling with adjusted content and relevant tools. The scam databases on Tampa Bay Acting and Tampa Bay Film will be developed from this new database, and this is one reason why their scam analysis databases have not gone online- yet. An expanded version of this new modeling scam analysis database, relevant and tweaked for the Tampa Bay talent market, will replace the existing content on Tampa Talent Scams. The Tampa Talent Scams web site will become a massive talent scam analysis and scam- fighting resource web site. It will become the ultimate talent scam resource, and will assist all of our web sites in our war against modeling and talent scams. It will even address production, and other types of scams, too.
For us, the modeling job and modeling consultation scams have a special place in our hearts. We are on a mission to undermine and disrupt these scams, as they are hurting models and are hurting the modeling industry! We are also planning on aggressively fighting modeling scams which try to take and resell our content. They pitch our ideas and our content to models in an attempt to bait them. We are planning on taking legal action against some of them, too.
One way to combat modeling job scams is to flood the market with legitimate job offers to models at no charge (this works with content, too). This will serve to devalue and undermine the effectiveness of modeling jobs that scams use to bait models. This is the reason that we are utilizing the modeling job board and modeling job resources developed by Independent Modeling. Our sites will have the most advanced modeling job boards ever seen.
Tampa Bay Modeling, Florida Modeling Career, and Independent Modeling will all have versions of the same modeling job board, which will share data and emphasize modeling job offer posts relevant to their target market. Tampa Bay Modeling will emphasize Tampa region modeling job offers, Florida Modeling Career will emphasize Florida modeling job offers, and Independent Modeling will emphasize national modeling job offers. All of our modeling job boards will contain modeling jobs from all markets, however, and we will not limit ourselves to our target markets. The difference will be in the priority of out job listings and what is listed first, which will help models easily find relevant modeling job posts.
The Tampa Bay Modeling and Independent Modeling job boards will go online Monday, June 16. Every model and every legitimate modeling job source that we can find will be notified this weekend (we have a large database with all these contact already). The Florida Modeling Career modeling job board will go online when it launches next week, perhaps as soon as Monday.
That's not all, either. Once the Talent Online Auditions web site and the Talent Online Database web site go online, all of our job boards will be rerouted to these huge databases. Consider this to be stage two, and it comes later this year.
That's it for now, We will reveal more of our plans and what we are working on later. In closing, what is the modeling risk analysis system? You will all find out in due time; modeling agencies and portfolio networking web sites, among others, won't like it. Neither will anyone offering free modeling portfolios or aspiring models who are misled into thinking that they can build a professional modeling portfolio and a modeling career for free. It is technology that will help to transform the modeling industry forever.
The revolution is just beginning, and it starts here in Tampa Bay!

UPDATE 05/03/08 - Tampa Modeling Scam Opinion by Tampa Bay Modeling director C. A. Passinault - Avoiding Modeling Scams Is Up To You! Lots of people were recently scammed by a modeling scam advertised on Tampa radio. We've been warning you for eight months now about a modeling scam that the news media is now just finding out about, and the scam could have easily been avoided by spending just five minutes on our web site and reading up on Tampa Modeling Scams!

UPDATE 05/04/08 - The long-awaited Modeling Composite Cards Feature article is up on Tampa Bay Modeling! This article covers all that any model needs to know about composite cards, composite card design, and composite card printing. If you are in the market for modeling composite cards, you must read this. Next month, we will also have the official Tampa Bay Modeling Model Pay Vouchers, and will be adding a ton of articles and tutorials from the old Tampa Bay Independent Model web site! the old articles will be adjusted and organized.

UPDATE 04/25/08 - Tampa Bay Modeling's very own featured Tampa model Ann Poonkasem shined on FOX 13's Lightning Round last night, discussing top news topics with Mark Wilson, Chip Carter, and Paul Dellegato. You can check out her main web site, which can be found and explored at AnnPoonkasem.Com, and also watch the Lightning Round online HERE (Please note that a new browser window will open). She impressed a lot of people, including us. Tampa Bay Modeling's relationship with the media continues; expect a lot of media and news coverage for Tampa Bay Modeling starting this year as our models make a lot of professional appearances. This is only one part of our promotion and marketing agenda, too. On the subject of marketing, we have reports today that rank Tampa Bay Modeling as the top search engine result for most Tampa and Florida modeling search terms, which would explain the popularity of our site. We are now the leaders of the Tampa modeling industry, and have an influence beyond that of all of the Tampa modeling and talent agencies combined. Everything is as it should be, and we are only getting started.

UPDATE 04/23/08 - FEATURED TAMPA MODEL Ann Poonkasem, pictured on the right, will be featured on a Tampa Bay news program tomorrow night representing Tampa Bay Modeling. Ann is a model, singer, actress, television host, and a multiple beauty pageant title holder. Ann is the current Ms. Gasparilla 2008. For her fans, her web site can be found at AnnPoonkasem.Com.

In related news, we will be launching a new featured model section, which will be accessed from the main menu, replacing the FAQ button. This new section will showcase featured Tampa and Florida models and will eventually link to their Independent Modeling featured model profiles as well as their TALON Talent Online Database contact profiles. Rumor has it that the modeling composite card designers over at Aurora PhotoArts Tampa Bay Photography And Design, the leaders in Tampa composite cards, will be creating special Tampa Bay Modeling web comps for this section (Please note that we are directly affiliated with Aurora PhotoArts and we are now both owned and operated by Passinault.Com). Speaking of composite cards, we are working on a series of articles and tutorials about this important modeling career tool. Also, our new modeling job board for Tampa and Florida is about to launch. The first version will be updated by hand until the Talent Audition Database is online, when we will utilize that database for our modeling job board and will show region-relevant modeling job posts. Independent Modeling will use the same database, and will show modeling jobs from all over.

UPDATE 04/23/08 - Our new Tampa Bay Modeling bumper stickers, shirts, bags, and model lifestyle apparel will be ready by the end of the month. The bumper sticker featured here will be pretty close to the finished version, except the finished version will probably have our slogan "The new look of modeling" on it. We can't wait, and neither can you! After talking to the staff, we wouldn't be surprised if we become our own best customer, as we all plan to buy loads of these products when they become available, and many of these will become available as prizes and give-outs during tampa modeling events and contests. Get ready to see Tampa Bay Modeling all over the Tampa Bay area in the near future! The Tampa Bay Modeling bumper stickers have been in the works for a while now, and now that we are beginning to market and promote the site on a new level, we are ready to offer them for sale to professional models and modeling enthusiasts. Any Tampa modeling and talent agencies out there interested in buying some? Perhaps not.

UPDATE 04/20/08 - The Tampa Modeling Job Board WILL have to go online early; we will have to rig a hand-edited version for now and set up a dedicated modeling job board (expect a code refresh as we reroute the main menu). We ran out of time for today, but we are getting modeling job submissions for our Tampa modeling job board and the PHP database-driven version where businesses with modeling jobs can post their own model job posts automatically is still a few weeks off. We checked, and we are now at the top of the search engine results for Tampa modeling jobs and anything modeling related for the Tampa Bay market (which explains all of the submissions, as everyone is finding this site now and our web traffic is setting records, especially after the move to our new server a few weeks ago- you have not seen anything, yet. Internet search domination will be fully realized this summer, when anyone looking for anything modeling related will find us before anyone else or any Tampa modeling agency, as it should be!). That makes us the top modeling resource web site for this region, and perhaps Florida. Ally and affiliated modeling web site Independent Modeling is also right up there, so they may have to rig up something temporarily until their new site is up. We can no longer ignore the success that we have become. We have to do something to get the jobs up there. Expect something as soon as tomorrow. Ah, yes, and keep your eyes on your local television broadcasts later this week (hint: look for the top Tampa newscast as late in the evening as possible, as lighting will strike in the same place many, many times). Just a thought- wouldn't it be cool if some of our professional independent models were to debate with modeling agency owners and so-called modeling school "instructors" on television one day about the modeling industry and how it is supposed to work as compared to how it really works? That would be fun, and although it isn't on our schedule at the moment, it is beginning to look like a future possibility. This is just the beginning, and 2008 is looking to be our most incredible year.

UPDATE 04/16/08 - We are now in the process of updating our Tampa Talent Scams scam-fighting resource web site index. This will become a massive scam-fighting resource for models, actors, talent, and production professionals which will interconnect with the talent scam-fighting resource sections of Tampa Bay Modeling, Tampa Bay Acting, Tampa Bay Film, and Tampa Bay Photographers. Tampa Bay Acting should be brought up to initial operational capability later today, and once this is done all of our support sites will be updated. Yes, and Tampa Bay Photographers should be up next week (at the moment, it is forwarded to the Tampa Photography Society photographer association web site, but this will change as soon as the site has launched)! Model and talent scams will soon have a hard time staying in business, because our web site network will be in the position to educate and inform anyone who is looking for anything entertainment or talent related in the Tampa Bay area in the near future.

UPDATE 04/08/08 - The web site indexes for Tampa Modeling Agency, Tampa Talent Agency, and Tampa Model Search are now up. Tampa Talent Agency will tie into Tampa Bay Acting, once they are up all the way. Our next Tampa Bay Modeling web site code refresh will link to these sites. Expect large updates this month. See our latest Tampa model opinion post for more.

NOTE 04/03/08 0415 HRS - Good morning, models. We did a run-through on our background-check tools yesterday, and the process is sadly lacking. Expect an overhaul on our background check resource section for Tampa modeling scams shortly, along with instructions on exactly where to go in the public information web sites referenced in our links. Anyone ever try to find arrest records on the Hillsborough County Jail web site before? It's not easy if it's your first time. We'll show you how! Before long, you'll be laughing along with us at the mug shots (awwww- they're so happy!).

Work on the new Independent Modeling and Independent Sites is ahead of schedule. The new Talent Online Audition Database will be a PHP / MySQL driven, user-maintained modeling job, audition, and production job database a lot like Craigslist, but more advanced. Tampa Bay Modeling, all of our sister sites, and all of the Independent Talent Sites will use this database. PHP will change our world, and will rock yours, once the web team addresses the security issues and compiles the code to infuse into several web sites!

Progress on the Tampa Modeling Agency, Tampa Talent Agency, and Tampa Model Search talent resource supplement web sites has been coming along (check out the 03/30/08 Tampa Bay Modeling Opinion post for more on what all this is- any of the modeling agency bookers and owners out there choking on your morning coffee yet? Did you burn yourself? Sorry! They will if they didn't already know!). Expect some work on these sites as soon as we get Tampa Bay Acting completely up. Tampa Bay Acting should be at minimal capability the morning of 04/03/08. We are working on it now. Yes, and the Tampa Talent Agency site will be handed over to the provisional staff of Tampa Bay Acting once they get a handle on things. It's a re launch, and we are happy! So shall you! Oh, yes, and we get modeling pay vouchers and other forms added to the Tampa Bay Modeling site next week! In related news, Monica is thinking about returning with her mail bag, too.

What's this we hear? Our newest sister site, Tampa Bay Photographers, is launching this month! Can't wait!

What is up with model job offers that claim no experience necessary? DON'T BELIEVE IT! Just because it is advertised on the radio or in print does not make it legitimate! WE HAVE NEVER SEEN A SINGLE ADVERTISMENT FOR MODELING JOBS ADVERTISED ON THE RADIO, TELEVISION, OR PRINT TURN OUT TO BE LEGITIMATE! Learn more about what to recognize so you can avoid it in our Tampa model scam section!

Afraid that a Tampa Bay photographer is going to sell your "sexy" swimsuit or glamour images to a 900 line ad or a print ad for a pornographic product? This has been a problem here in Tampa Bay, and you can avoid this by making every photographer sign our FAIR USE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FORM!

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