What is scam?
A scam is a deceptive scheme or fraud designed to cheat someone out of money, personal information, or other valuable items. Scammers use various tactics to trick individuals into believing they will benefit from a deal or arrangement, only to exploit them instead.
Who are the scammer of photo retouching sector?
In the photo retouching sector, as in any industry, there are legitimate professionals and businesses, as well as scammers looking to exploit clients. Identifying scammers can be challenging, but there are some common red flags and warning signs to watch out scammer.
As far I know maximum of scammer are from Asian countries as their economy is lower than Europe, America; So they want to make done their work without any cost. They can easily scam with any photo retouching company easily.
Most dangerous scammers countries are:
1. India
2. Pakistan
3. Vietnam
4. Singapore
5. Iran
6. Iraq
7. Saudi Arabia
8. Myanmar
9. Jordan
10. Bangladesh
How do they can scam any photo retouching company?
Scammers can target photo retouching companies in several ways, exploiting various aspects of the business to avoid any cost for his retouching project.
Scammer’s commitment is always good and their price also can be high and image volume can be so high. Firstly they promise to pay in a monthly basis and any payment way whatever you want to get payment; every way they are agreed to pay you. After start working they will give you continue project and their deadline will be very tough so that you can obliged he is real client.
Complete working in one month when you will ask for payment; they will say continue working and they will pay in 15th day of month as their company policy. When you will make force for your payment than they will say rules violating and others think you have break down. After that they will block you.
However each scammer has different specific idea that they applied to the targeting small photo retouching company. They are not willing to pay make advanced payment and they make a fake agreement paper.
Characteristics of Scammer:
1. Deception: The scammer provides false or misleading information to make the victim believe in the legitimacy of the offer.
2. Urgency: Scammers often create a sense of urgency to pressure the victim into making quick decisions without thorough consideration.
3. Emotional Manipulation: They may play on the victim’s emotions, such as a little advance payment, greed, or sympathy, to elicit a desired response.
4. Lack of Transparency: Details of the deal or offer are often vague or hidden to avoid raising suspicion.
5. Unsolicited Contact: Scammers frequently initiate contact unexpectedly via phone calls, Skype, emails, social media, or in person.
List of Scammers that we have faced:
We are Ephotoretouching working from 2012 in this photo retouching sector. As this 12 years stage we have faced with some scammers. Here I will show them with documents.
Be aware of those fake clients to avoid your business loss. They are targeting now new company and do that same scam with every team.
1. Alex Jones:
His name is Alex Jones. He contact with photo retouching with his Skype ID and a Gmail.
Firstly he will offer you a good price and lots of project like an agency. Alex Jones describes himself as a Singapore person but he will not provide you any information like website or social media.
His commitment is monthly payment via swift bank transfer method and he will pay twice in the 1st month. We have continued working with him with very risk as though we haven’t proper document about the client. In working 15 days we asked him for 1st payment than he told us that he will pay all together in the end of month. With believe, we sent him monthly invoice with our bank details after that he force us to continue working for next 15 days and there after he will pay. In this mean time can understand he is fake and he is doing same work with other companies. When we force him to complete the payment then he blocked us on Skype.
Alex Jones
alexjonesarron@gmail.com
We have found some data about Alex Jones. He was working with a American company that name Ted 7
(https://ted7.com/) So we have discussed with the owner of ted7 and sent him the images that we have done. The owner of TED7 told us that that image is photographed by him but he don’t know Alex Jones and he will not pay us for this work.
He told us that he sent the images to a Bangladeshi company named Zoom Bangla.
After that we talk with Zoom Bangla but they refuse our complain.
2. Yến Trần( photo editing):
She is from a low scoring country Ho chi min, Vietnam. Yen Tran doing the scam from long time in Bangladesh. Almost 30% small office are affected by her.
She mostly target the small office of photo retouching service provider and then she contact them via Skype. Yen Tran talks as honestly that everyone obliged to belief him. He asked for his low prices budget and her every job is so urgent that you need to complete them every next 4hours. He/ She offers continue job with low price. About payment gateway she told to make payment by PayPal.
Yen Tran agreed to pay weekly and monthly after confirmed the payment gateway but after 7 day when we asked for our 1st payment then she tells their policy is monthly payment system and therefore she can’t pay us before 1 month also we need to continue working in this period. How terrible she is with the payment. After working in one month when we asked again for monthly payment than without any answering she blocked us on Skype.
We have ask him about her website and email but she tells she have no website and not comfortable with email communication. She is still doing scamming with others so we should be aware of from like this dishonest client.
Yen Tran
More info will be update…
