If it smells like a fish

Posted by Wilfredo on April 06, 2005 at 22:43:40:

In Reply to: Quick! Read and advise, PLEASE! posted by T.M. on April 05, 2005 at 22:18:43:

Location: In Orlando today

it's likely to be fishy.

The little bit I've heard of these people sounds like they are a modeling school and portfolio mill, with the usual flash-in-a-pah success or two that they can live off of for years. Such things should be avoided. "Classes" are not necessary to be a model, and isn't it odd that "their photographer" has to be the one to take the pictures?

Your whole description reads like the classic come-on for a modeling school. The trouble is, the schools sometimes get credible models who attend them, and when those few models actually have some success, everybody else hears about it forever.

$75 for a Polaroid? They can't be serious!

If they are really interested in you, they will send you to their "model orientation" (which sounds a lot like what scammers do to get models to sign up for expensive things) without Polaroids, and without expense to you. They will offer free classes, if they offer them at all, and they will have a variety of photographers for you to choose from.

At the "orientation" the people attending will all look like fashion models: girls will be 15-19 years old, at least 5'8" tall and very thin. Men will be 17-25 years old, no less than 5'11" and no more than 6'2", and wear size 40 suit jackets. If that is not true, it's very unlikely that this is real. If you aren't in that class of person, it's even less likely that it's real.

Until proven otherwise, this looks like a chance for you to spend money while they dangle someone else's success in front of you, just out of reach.

Be sure to write back with what you find out.

Follow Ups:

• Re: If it smells like a fish TM 01:35:36 04/07/05 (4)
  • confused Jane 14:13:25 04/07/05 (0)
  • Perhaps Wilfredo 07:41:06 04/07/05 (2)
    • Re: Perhaps TM 14:39:20 04/07/05 (1)
      • yes Jane 14:59:19 04/07/05 (0)

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: it's likely to be fishy.

: The little bit I've heard of these people sounds like they are a modeling school and portfolio mill, with the usual flash-in-a-pah success or two that they can live off of for years.  Such things should be avoided.  "Classes" are not necessary to be a model, and isn't it odd that "their photographer" has to be the one to take the pictures?

: Your whole description reads like the classic come-on for a modeling school.  The trouble is, the schools sometimes get credible models who attend them, and when those few models actually have some success, everybody else hears about it forever.

: $75 for a Polaroid?  They can't be serious!

: If they are really interested in you, they will send you to their "model orientation" (which sounds a lot like what scammers do to get models to sign up for expensive things) without Polaroids, and without expense to you.  They will offer free classes, if they offer them at all, and they will have a variety of photographers for you to choose from.  

: At the "orientation" the people attending will all look like fashion models:  girls will be 15-19 years old, at least 5'8" tall and very thin.  Men will be 17-25 years old, no less than 5'11" and no more than 6'2", and wear size 40 suit jackets.  If that is not true, it's very unlikely that this is real.  If you aren't in that class of person, it's even less likely that it's real.

: Until proven otherwise, this looks like a chance for you to spend money while they dangle someone else's success in front of you, just out of reach.

: Be sure to write back with what you find out.



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