SCAM ALERT

Someone claiming to be with a movie production company emailed me hiding behind a Gmail account.

 The email pretends they are doing a made for cable TV documentary about patriots.

Problem is, scammers love to hide behind Gmail accounts. Persons who work for legitimate companies have corporate email accounts on their corporate domain.

heres the email, with headers:

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I looked up Firecracker in CA Secretary of State records, they exist, they have a website.

 That's where it gets troubling. I called the number on the website and a woman answered who claimed she had only worked there 2 days, didnt know what it was about, and that so called Jeff must be a freelance.

The email claims hes a CASTING DIRECTOR at the company. Read it right above here.

 MANAGERS HAVE CORPORATE EMAIL ACCOUNTS. "Director" is a management position.

She hung up on me when I challenged that if she didnt know what's going on, that there must be someone else besides her there to ask.

I called back and a man who claimed to be Jeff answered.

Of course.

I told him the Gmail account looked fishy and he proceeded to explain thats their procedure for contacting multiple people on a  project.

False premise, because ANY corporate domain can have multiple email addresses, all they have to do is BUY them. Many corporate domain accounts have hundreds of email accounts available.

The idea he tried to float is that he needed a Gmail account for each OTHER person he corresponded with. Thts false, all thats needed is one Firecracker address per PROJECT. VERY slick pivot play.

It doesnt take an individual SENDERS email to correspond with a hundred people.

When Gmail is used, monkey business can be pulled behind the Companies back. Beware of car dealers who have salesmen that use Gmail, if they actually work for the Dealer, why dont they have a DEALERS ADDRESS? (joe_schmoe@car company.com)

I told him that I would consider discussing this with them is he FORWARDED INFORMATION VIA THE US MAIL

Then he started changing subjects and engaging in ad homimens.

The problem with 'sending via the mail' is that exposes a scammer to COMMITING A FELONY of mail fraud should their communication be fraudulent or illegal. That exposes them to prison time.

Things put in writing constitute CONTRACTS.Scammers and the dishonest LOVe to use email because they can make promises then refuse to keep them, and it becomes "he said, she said" when theres nothing in writing.

I stopped a phone phisher a couple years ago that was phishing info from a Federal contractors database, who called me and demanded I send personal financial information by phone or email, because they didnt have access to POSTAL MAIL.

I told her the same thing as I did these people - go to hell.

I called the Santa Monica P.D, they didnt know of any scam activity going on with regard to Firecracker, but Google them and read for yourself, especially the LACK of anything to claim as production except for You tube, and the Ripoff Report:

http://www.ripoffreport.com/producers/firecracker-films/firecracker-films-warning-fr-eeed6.htm

Notice the rebuttal, as usual, evades the topics and claims, its attack the victim. Notice their claims of "a great production" that went nowhere.

I can post BS films to Youtube...

 Quite a LACK of produced work of such a STELLAR company.

 Reader, ALWAYS demand they use the Mail, that separates the honest from the scammers. beware, in these down economic times, there are plenty of employment scams floating around Email.

There may be no connection, but firecracker is based in the U.K, and over the last couple years with the economic turn-down, there has been an abundance of Identity Theft emails floating around from the UK claiming that you can work for them as an accounts manager etc and get paid remotely.

 BEWARE>

Posted by Dave at 4:24 PM PST

Updated: Tuesday, 12 February 2013 5:16 PM PST

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