If you’re an event photographer, you may have noticed there are some online businesses that offer to connect you with customers. How nice of them.
One such company, based in Europe, is currently sending emails to photographers in several cities around the world. This company claims in its email that it has a customer with an urgent need for photo services in the photographer’s area.
You might ignore this email because of its generic wording or because it looks like spam. But you’ll get more similar emails in the following weeks and months. The emails have a fake “unsubscribe” link that does nothing.
All these additional emails claim that the company has yet another customer with an immediate need for event photography in your area. Of course, there is no customer. The oddly worded emails are often the same with the name or date of the unidentified event changed.
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