You know you're famous when...
In the past few weeks, I have received dozens of emails, replying to an email sent by a "Mr. Chris Tann" of "Christann Clothing Inc." or "Christann Clothing Company". This email takes the form of a "letter of interest", sent to models and photographers listed on various agency websites. The emails refer to my website http://www.christann.com, and use my name, although they list an address and phone numbers (almost certainly bogus) in England.
Although I answered the replys I got, pointing out that this was probably some sort of scam (something like the "Nigerian Certified Cheque" scam), and didn't think too much of it. However, the emails continued, and then I was refered to a site called fraudwatch, which lists literally dozens of occurences (and variations) of this email. I realised the large distribution these emails have had, and it sounds like people have really been caught by this scam. It seems that in later emails, they stopped listing my website, but each time I see a new round of emails, it has a new return address - so this scam is still in progress!
Well, I guess imitation is the highest form of compliment - but in this case, I just feel violated. Not realy much I can do aside from publicise the fact that this is a scam, and has nothing to do with me. Yet, it shows just how frail our "internet identities" are. Be careful out there people, it's a jungle!
Here is an example of the emails being sent:
" Hello friend
My name is Mr Chris Tann. a retired actor presently based in the UK. and now own a clothing company(CHRISTANN CLOTHING INC. ).
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ctann) wrote,
confused
