Theatre Australia

your portal for australian theatre

SCAM ALERT

Mon, 30 Apr 2007, 09:03 pm
David Green28 posts in thread
EVERYONE BEWARE!!!!!! AN EMAIL WAS SENT TO ME THAT IS A SCAM. BE CAREFULL AND PLEASE ALERT SITE MANAGER IF SOMEONE SENDS YOU THIS EMAIL: Hello , My name is Caleb Adewole,a national Online Scout manager with www.toospoiled.com -an highly growing website with the largest database of actors and models in the world.I have gone through your profile and I feel talented guys like you should be on our database.Toospoiled.com offer talents the best in terms of worldwide exposure at absolutely no cost at the point of enrollment.You can upload your photos freely,there is no retention fee.We welcome the gifted like you and I know it's going to be a wonderful experience.why don't you join us at www.toospoiled.com/default.cfm Click 'Members'You would need my Scout ID:CAAD4310 for validation purpose.If you are having problem filling your phone ,omit your country and area codes.You can edit your phone number after enrollment.My email is Caleb.Adewole@toospoiled.com I look forward to hear from you. Best of Luck. Caleb Adewole THIS SCAM COULD COST YOU MONEY AND IS NOT EVEN AUSTRALIAN. DO NOT REPLY OR GO INTO IT.

Hey Caleb, if you insist

Sat, 16 June 2007, 01:43 am
Hey Caleb, if you insist that the company is legit, why not leave a personal email address where people can contact you properly? I doubt any of us are willing to waste money on an international call just so that we can prove/disprove any suspicions we might have. And I have to say that it was not out of cowardice or lack of research. We simply did a Google search and listed the results: it's not our fault if there have been a lot of forum postings about your company that do not agree with your marketing. We were trying to give some advice to many of the young and emerging artists out there who may not realise that the service is not Australian based, and therefore may not benefit them as much as an Australian-based site/company might. (Your home page shows shots of half-naked women on it; not something we generally promote to youngsters in this country) And lastly; you want us to do 'proper' research about who you are? Put some company profiles up on your About us page, add some actual press releases on your press page, include actual media information on your media page (instead of where you place ads). 'In the interest of national and social justice' we have a right to present information based on what we have found on other websites and your own site, in order to better infom our local artists. If you really are legit, then you will leave us more information about the company, instead of saying that 'other people have signed up' implying that it is legit. Having links to prettified (yes, I know I just made that up) profiles doesn't make me less suspicious; only some info on your company, that I could double check and triple check from second and third party sources (ie. yellow pages, a government business directory, etc.), would help. You are a 'scout manager' and it is clear from the website that anyone can become a scout manager if they fill out an application form. I'd be a little more enthused if we had contact with... I dunno... a CEO of the company? Or an actual founding member of the company? (A google search of Caleb Adewole from Toospoiled brings up one link; this site. So we can't even research who you are! And so I say all this in full knowledge that you may not be who you say you are...) Sticky Apple Legs www.freewebs.com/stickyapplelegs Puppets in Melbourne www.thepromptcopy.com/pip

Thread (28 posts)

← Back to Billboard Bulletins