emodel.com, Options Talent Group
To Whom It May Concern:
Have you heard any reports about Options Talent
Group, apparently formerly eModel.com,
operating in Tennessee?
I know someone who has been taken in by them in Nashville,
and wondered if you have heard about others.
Also, if anyone has initiated any action with the state
Consumer Protection Agency, or Better Business Bureau,
or anyone else?
Thanks,
A.M.
Hi A.,
Funny you should ask about Options Talent.
I was sent an email yesterday by a woman who had been
scammed by emodel.com, who forwarded
a message from another girl who believes she was scammed
by Options Talent.
See this page, which includes her message, with a few
editorial comments:
emodel.com,
Options Talent, and Sector Communications
To answer your question, it does not look as if anyone
has taken any legal action against either emodel.com
or Options Talent. However, the New
York Post reported not long ago that The Models Guild
said it plans to contact the Attorney General of Florida,
because there have been so many complaints.
The Better Business Bureau has various files in different
cities on emodel.com. These can be checked online.
Since Options Talent appears to be
quite new (the website was registered less than two months
ago, in December 2001), the BBB may not yet have any
information about Options Talent, in
your state, or any state.
There is a long emodel.com
Fraud Investigation Report, and if the
conduct of Options Talent is very
similar, Options Talent could certainly
be another modeling scam.
It is more than likely the case that Sector Communications,
the owner of emodel.com and Options Talent,
will continue to make sure the practices of emodel.com
are used for Options Talent, because
they made a lot of money, and Sector Communications is
presumably only interested in making money. It does not
look as if they have any background in the modeling industry
whatsoever.
Why buy a company if what it does has no relationship
to what you have done or are doing, unless, as I said,
it makes money?
Sincerely,
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