hey what's going on guys welcome back to my channel if you guys are new to my
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weekly basis where I give you guys some of the best tips on how you can become a
model so in this video I want to cover four types of modeling scams that are
very common and I will give you guys some tips on how to avoid them so when I
first got started I went to a modeling agencies open call and when I went there
there were tons of other models just like me who had no experience and wanted
to get into the industry so I was one of the model selected they selected almost
50% of the models who showed up which is pretty high because usually when you go
to an open call day to the end of selecting 2 or 3 models from the crowd
to stay back so they ended up selecting 50% almost more than 50% of the people
who showed up so I thought that was kind of sketchy but I didn't think it was a
big red flag so after they selected a handful of models they asked all of us
to do a model walk and all the models who were there walked down the runway
while we were walking down this runway they were criticizing our walks and
telling us like hey you know you need some work here your walk isn't strong
enough this isn't gonna get you books by clients they literally went down and
criticized every single person and then they introduced their modeling program
so get this they said hey if you guys want to be represented by the agency you
have to first go through our training program our training program only costs
$2,300 but it's gonna get you booked it's gonna get you
clients it's gonna get you in phases of the magazines and all that so they made
a lot of big promises and they said if we take their training program for only
$2,300 that we would be signed to their agency so we weren't officially signed
we had to go through their training program to get signed now this is a big
red flag I ended up walking away and I know some of the models actually went
through the program and paid for it but you should never have to pay for an
agency and I'm gonna discuss that later at the end of this video
another type of scam that I've seen a lot of models fall for is when they are
considering signing within 8 see or when they've been recently signed
by an agent the agents forces them to use a photographer that they
particularly chose for that model now this is a red flag some agencies have a
list of photographers that they prefer their models shoot with but they never
force you to shoot with any of those photographers shooting with a
photographer should always be your choice you should always look for what
photographers you want to work with you should never be forced or feel forced to
shoot with a specific photographer so some of those scam agencies they try to
scam models by enforcing a photographer on a model saying hey if you don't shoot
with this photographer we cannot represent you or if you don't shoot this
photographer you're not going to get books we're not gonna set any other kind
of pictures that comes from other photographers except you use our
photographer and get this their photographer is usually pretty on the
higher side of things so that's something you want to watch out for you
should never be forced to shoot with a photographer the next type of scam that
I've seen is to pay for an exclusive cast in so I've seen some people say hey
you know we can get you seen by this big designer or we can get you this big
audition or we can get you one-on-one interview with so-and-so but you just
have to pay this small fee to get a big one-on-one interview or 1-on-1 casting this
doesn't happen guys you should never have to pay to go to a casting or an
open call or anything like that it's completely free so usually what happens
is that your agency will send you on castings and go-sees or sometimes the
clients might actually request you now that's like more exclusive where they've
requested to see you in person so that's a go see but you never have to pay for
anything if someone's acting you to pay for an
exclusive casting or an exclusive opportunity to have a one-on-one
interview with someone it's most likely a scam so you want to be careful and
then a fourth type of scam that I see a lot are predators who are pretending to
be talent scouts or talent managers so a lot of these people they approach young
good-looking people on the street and tell them hey you know what I can make
your model I can get you in the cover of this magazine I can get you represented
by this big agency I can get you working with this big designer I discover it
it's so so and so I just this motto I discovered this person I
got them started they will tell you this big promising story that just sounds
like amazing right but they're completely full of it and I'm gonna
explain so the way those predators who pretend to be talent scouts work is that
they give you big promises right and then they actually to pay for expensive
photoshoots with particular photographers that they've already made
an agreement with and then they actually pay a commission fee to them or they
actually to pay a submission fee or some kind of fee to get you in front of an
agent now this is a completely a scam if you're a real talent scouts real talent
scouts do not request models to pay them because they're getting paid by the
agency okay so how do you determine if something is a scam and what are some
general practices so one you shouldn't have to pay for anything guys like it
doesn't cost anything to be a model if you've go to an agency and they choose
to represent you there's absolutely no fee whatsoever the only thing that you
might have to pay for is test shoots so when you're shooting with a photographer
of course he had to pay the photographer because you're hiring them to do a job
which it should make you look good and to get you some pictures that you can
use but other than that you should not have to pay an agency you should not
have to pay a talent scout it's completely free guys another best
practice is to not sign any contracts without reading it thoroughly sometimes
especially in a scam situation they try to rush you and rush a decision out of
you and pressuring you to sign right then and there making you feel like
you're gonna miss out on the opportunity if someone gives you a contract to sign
they should give you at least three business days to look over it and make a
decision so don't ever feel pressured don't feel rushed to sign anything
next you always want to make sure you're doing your research research the
companies that you're engaging with research the people if you meet a talent
scout so you're not sure google them see who else they've worked with and get
some feedback from people never ever ever give sensitive information don't
give out your social security number don't give out your address these are
your personal sensitive information that could easily get stolen the only time
that you might give this out is to your agents when you're submitting your tax
forms so if you sign within agents and you fill in
your w-2s and all that yes it's okay to give them your personal and sensitive
data another tip is to read the FTC website of modeling scams because
there's so many types of modeling scams that come up every now and then I'm sure
you guys have probably experienced some yourselves and please drop them in the
comment box let me know and let other models know I'm gonna leave the link to
the FTC websites in the description box down below so definitely do check those
outs one more thing I wanted to update you guys on so back in December Faith
Emanuel was the winner of my photo shoot contest Wow can you guys believe that
she's unrepresented so if you're watching this video and you're an agents
definitely hook her up it's unbelievable so and since then an agents actually
reached out to her after seeing the video and they decided to represent her
that agency is Lynn Model Management so congratulations faith she is now
signed if you guys are interested in working with Lynn Model Management all
you guys have to do is submit your digital's
to their email address and we're gonna leave that in description box down as
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