Photographer Scams

Websitecop Successfully Defends Photographer

A successful London photographer has had copied material removed from the internet by Websitecop. The photographer, in Camden High Street, called on the services of Websitecop at the beginning of October 2007. He had discovered that the owner of another photographic website had copied nearly all of the text and layout of his Studio Website, after seeing the hits drop from 350 to 250 (average) Websitecop gathered evidence and prepared documents for presentation to an intellectual solicitor. The matter was resolved after the notice of 'Pending Legal Action.' by late November 2007.
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Wedding Photographer London

Hi,
I'm Henry White..So i'm a  wedding co-ordinator..I'm urgently in need of  a wedding photographer to come datover to Dublin...The wedding date is January 26 2008 so if available..The people invited are about 30 to 35....We await your charges for your service..
Notice:
-  The bride & groom want full coverage of the ceremony and
 reception....
- How many hours do they need a photographer for? just 3 hours
- 80 copies, does this mean of two selected shots (1 ceremony /
1reception)? yes
- Does the bride & groom want additional prints, covering more than
 just the above? Nome
 
         .......
I will be looking forward for your reply..
Postcode : N102DP

The scam behind this is the wedding photographer would receive money by way of credit card and also collect payment for a catering company. A few days later Mr White would ring the photographer saying that the caterer and cancelled and forward the money to him. There is no wedding and the Credit card is either stolen or cloned.
There are three main clues here that give the authenticity of this email away
1. The use of repeated dots to separate sentences ( spelling is good because most computers have a spell checker but the grammar is very suspect)
2 The Start of the email is not how one would begin when addressing an unknown person.
3. The Phone number is, for want for a better phrase, of no fixed address.
Other names used are Alfred Mark and Gomez Alfred. Note The phone number, we tried and tried to find its country of origin but it appears to come from a company that supplies phone numbers that can be used globally!! Here's a sample after Googling the number

work from home....job offer.

Contact advertiser (You must be a member). Sold by : gomez01. Postcode : N102DP. Town : London. Telephone : 7031896882 ...
jobs-offered.annonz.co.uk/jobs-offered/work-from-home-job-offer--88131 - 22k -

So Mr White..Mr Mark... Mr Alfred or what ever you name is you've been rumbled my friend !!