LOOKING FOR SCAMS: You are what you do and you are who you associate with. Talk comes cheap, especially in the modeling industry where everyone claims to be a player. Those that pay the price are the models who listen to the advice of others without checking them out beforehand. Those models lose money, time, and sometimes pay with their very careers as their reputations are tarnished and destroyed. Know WHO you are dealing with, how they operate, and what they do.
AVOID SCAMS: It
is always better to avoid a scam to begin with than to suffer the consequences
of being a scam victim. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Basic rules on how to avoid a model scam: CLARIFY and VERIFY. Clarify
what their motivation is and who they are. VERIFY their professional
credentials, work history, and references. Do this BEFORE contacting
them, as you can do so without putting yourself at risk in most instances.
If this proves to be difficult to do without contacting them, it is
best that you skip them and deal with someone else.
FIGHTING BACK: If
you have been scammed or know of a scam, it is not hard to fight them
and put them in their place with little to no risk to yourself. By taking
action and working to undermine the model scam, it makes it difficult
for them to operate and hurt more models and industry professionals.
We know of models who have put model scams out of business, and in most
cases the scams had no idea what happened or who was behind the action
that put them out of business.
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