ASMP continues to advise caution when receiving or acting upon any email communications from unknown persons about ASMP member financial transactions, offers proposing lucrative photo assignments, and the sale of ASMP mailing lists.
While the communication may appear legitimate, it is important that you do your due diligence prior to entering into any financial arrangement to avoid being a victim of fraud.
Recently reported scam by a member involves a fraudulent assignment request for stock images by a travel agency based in Atlanta which advised that the assignment proposal was a scam when contacted by the member.
If you have potential business scams directed at you via email or online through your website, ASMP encourages you to report these spam emails to your Internet Service Provider (ISP), and to report all potential business scams as cyber crimes to the FBI IC3.