Victim Location 92173
Type of a scam Employment
Our model agency was contacted by "Joss Whedon" from "Beyond Earth Films" agency, saying that there was going to be a commercial shooting and was requiring people of all backgrounds, with a upfront payment of 1,200 dlls per day. We got told to send our photos and info to their email "[email protected]" and we all got, what seems to be, automated responses within hours, they all said the same, which I screen captured and attached below.
It asks for more detail information but doesn’t say anything about location or filming dates.
But what’s more suspicious is that Joss Whedon is the one sending you the email and if you access their web page you can see his picture in the ‘crew’ tab, his name and photo as casting director. Why would a renowned director would be in casting at a shady agency that no one in the industry has ever heard of? not only that, they have very famous and talented people in their "crew" as animator and cinematographers, with photos that are easily found on google or other websites.
We haven’t got to the end of it so we don’t know what they really want from this, maybe bank info for the upfront payment or kidnap giving a fake location. We don’t want to find out because this for sure is a scam.