Beware the Fiverr scam offering article placements in Lucire
I’ve seen fake pull letters with our logo but I haven’t come across this before: a claim from someone on Fiverr that they can get an article into WWD, Lucire and Essence. […]
Modelling scam artists vary their MO
Disturbingly, it looks as though the scam artists have changed their game. At the beginning of this year, we noted that we, Glamour and FHM had been affected by scam artists illegally using our name and promising models photo shoots. But there was one hitch: the scammers were using an address and names that had […]
A reminder about the “Model Mayhem scam”
Repeating a post made in August 2008: please be on alert, at sites such as ModelMayhem.com, for anyone claiming to be from Lucire based at 32 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London. There is no Lucire office there. We do not send emails from Rocketmail [and we would never have an address in the format of luciremagazine**@gmail.com]. […]
Model scam alert: there is no ‘Bruce Williams’ at Lucire
I know all fashion magazines have this problem—the misuse of one’s name for less than scrupulous purposes—and I was disappointed to note one today that FHM had previously been a victim of. This was sent to us by the alert boyfriend of a model, who asked if a Bruce Williams worked for us. […]
