Above Advertisement and Photo Shop - Potential Job Offer

Today I received an e-mail from Jeffrey Peterson of Above Advertisement and Photo Shop.

Jeffrey's message was vague and smelt a bit like a scam. Indeed the NZIPP warn that it could be just that.

Reasons to believe it could be a scam are:
- A representative of the company he eventually claims to be working on behalf of have contacted me to say it's a scam

- Limited details about the job itself, the advertising company, and the way they found me

- The advertising agency doesn't seem to exist or is not ranking well on google

- The supplied e-mail address comes from a g-mail account (you would expect @aboveadvert.com rather than @gmail.com)

- Poor grammar etc. (a instead of an, lack of capitalisation...)
- Failure to address you by name
- Follow up e-mail requests you to provide your name, company etc (they should already know this)
- A fundamental misunderstanding of what a client would mean when they request an 'international photographer'. International photographers have an international reputation, they aren't simply from another country

Now I'm not saying that this is definitely a scam as I don't know for sure. What I am saying is proceed with extreme caution if you proceed at all.

The NZIPP advise:
Don't be surprised if they "booked" a job, prepay for it and then contact you to say that they made an error and gave you too much, you refund some money and then find out that the original money was stolen

For those who are interested in the message here it is below.

Hello,


I am Jeffery Peterson. I work for a advertisement agency called above advertisement and photo shop.


We at above advertisement and photo shop have a few campaigns and we are currently looking for an international photographer who will take coverage of this campaign and photo shooting.


I saw your profile in one of the photographers site  and I think you would fit in for this campaign which I have on my books.


If you are interested, feel free to send me a message and ask me any questions regarding the potential job.


Regards,

Jeffery Peterson


Second E-mail:


Hello,

Thank you very much for your prompt reply and willingness to take up this project which upon i contacted you. I am also happy to answer your questions in

other to put you through on the follow up of this project.

1 . We are small scale company located here in UK though affiliated to other bigger scale ventures.

2.  We have this contract from our client Lebara UK to provide them with models and photographers. The models, their photo will be used for the new face of

 Lebara top up card and bill boards advertisement which will be published soon then the work of the photographer is to take charge of the shoot which will

take a little period of time which is a temporal employment with us and that is the reason why we have contacted you to take charge of the photo shooting

because actually we want to create relationship with international models and photographers for expansion.

3.The location for the shoot is here in London and the duration for the shoot is 10days which is from January 24th to February 4th 2012. My client will take

 care of all bills so u do not need to worry.

All you need to do now is to get back with me as soon as possible with the details below for proper registration with us to enable us commence and we will

keep you updated in no time.

STUDIO COMPANY NAME:

FIRST NAME:

LAST NAME:

ADDRESS:

CITY

COUNTRY

POSTAL CODE

PHONE NUMBER

EMAIL ADDRESS

Thank you very much and hope to hear from you as soon as possible.

Regards

Jeffery Peterson

If Jeffrey Peterson is out there anywhere and would like to counter these claims please feel free to contact me. Once you do this I will be happy to remove this post.

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