An email from "Jennifer, Project Manager with Under Armour's Global Marketing Operations team" offering you a modeling opportunity may seem legitimate, but it's actually part of a new check fraud scam. Here's what you need to know.
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A woman calling herself Megan Hooke contacted me about writing a 2700-word article for a workshop in Boise, ID, aimed at high school students. The e-mail was titled “Need a Writer” and went on to promise a payment of $4050 for the article. I suspected it was a scam, but nothing came up when searching “Need a Writer Scam”, or the name Megan Hooke, so of course I went along with it to get the whole story! I am not even sure what to put in this post so that people who run across this scam will be able to…
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A new twist on the old check fraud overpayment scam arrived in my e-mail yesterday, and this time they had a website and everything! The e-mail supposedly came from James Robert Photography, who is looking for models for Fila and they want to pay me $8000, with $1500 upfront! Read on for the details on the James Robert Photography Fila Model Scam and how it works. As you can see below, Scam Adviser has given them a low trust score. They actually scored a 1 out of 100! The website was only created three weeks ago. Update: 3 months later…
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The "I want to use your photos" scam has been nabbing a lot of people lately judging by the traffic to my blog post exposing the scam. A lot of people are worried and don't know what to do, so I wrote a post all about what to do when you're a victim of a check fraud scam.
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The latest scam I’ve been getting on Instagram are people who love my pics so much that they want to use my photos for a mural. Sometimes, it’s a painting. But either way all I need to do is accept a check for a large amount, keep a little for myself and then send them the extra for supplies. Art supplies can get pricey you know! Of course, it’s just another fake check scam, and not even a very convincing one. So do not ever accept a check for more than it should be, and then send a stranger money!…