ANOTHER WEEK, ANOTHER SCAM

[Terry Daniel]

You've seen these before. It's the old, "I'll wire you $3000 and you wire me my share of $2000". They always make it look like they're the middle man between you and their client. They send you fake scripts of some kind and appear to be fairly legit but of course, they're not. This one came from an audition I won on voices.com! So, if you hear from this person, Stay away! Here's some advice for some of you newer talents out there. If they refuse to use PayPal or Alert Pay, that is an immediate red flag. Here's the name and e-mail address;

merrin tullock

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[Joe McMillan]

Hi Terry
Got the Same one!
I asked if they would use PAYPAL
He said NO
Kinda scary
Joe

[Terry Daniel]

Hey Joe! Did he write you from Voices.com? I'll let Stephanie know as well.

[Joe McMillan]

Hi Terry
I did get it from Voices.com
a Message from my website

[Terry Daniel]

What a moron. I'll let Steph know.

[Dina Monaco-Boland]

Hi Terry,

Thank you for posting this so that we are aware. Unfortunately these folks change their names and contact info quite often so they can try and fly under the radar.

I know I recently asked a question regarding bank transfers because Russia is not currently set up to send payments via paypal and was wondering about it's security (bank transfers). However, the scenario you've put forward never looks legit. It just does not make sense. In your example your fee is $1000 but the client will pay you $3000 and you must send back the overage of $2000. Why not just pay the $1000 instead of making this so convoluded? That should be a red flag to anyone.

I'll bet dollars to donuts this guy (girl?) will be back under a different name to try and snare some other mark (aka talent).

[Terry Daniel]

Yeah, they make it sound like 3K is the client's budget for the whole project and then they attempt to pay you YOUR share of that from their client's account, (fraudulent account) and then they request that you send them (middle man) their share. It's all a stupid scam. :)