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LMAO SO I ALMOST GOT SCAMMED Y& #39;ALL. I& #39;m gonna post more about this later, but yeah wow this really seemed believable until I went on google and did some research. Just ruined my whole morning.
Ok, so around 2:30 this morning I received an e-mail from someone claiming to be Annie Leibovitz and said that she was shooting a campaign for Adidas. The email sounded pretty legit and contained a lot of the language I& #39;ve seen used in other jobs.
I responded, expressing my interest and received another more detailed e-mail about the shoot. Still, this seemed really believable and it didn& #39;t seem off to me that the domain wasn& #39;t linked to Annie& #39;s website because I looked her up and she doesn& #39;t have a public website
We went back and forth about twice before I decided googling & #39;Annie Leibovitz adidas& #39;, because it seemed off to me that Annie Leibovitz would be shooting a campaign for a sportswear brand. Most of her work is editorial and high fashion.
The first link that I saw when I googled it was an article about this exact scam, with the same verbiage being used except with a different photographers name (Jill Greenberg)
https://petapixel.com/2017/12/27/email-scammer-poses-famous-photographer/">https://petapixel.com/2017/12/2...
It& #39;s really crazy how far people will go to scam someone through the internet. Whoever was behind this knew that I& #39;m a photographer, and knew that I would be interested in something like this.
Last month, they tried to scam my friend @egyptique with the exact same email except for Nike instead of Adidas.
