Model agency scam
M models MM Models Birmingham – ignit3 Talent Derby – Momco Warrington / Manchester – The Studio Leeds – Model agency scam
MM Models – Ignit3 Talent – Momco – Scam – The web of lies and the truth unveiled
I hope you’re sitting comfortably with a cup of coffee or something stronger.
The following information is a first hand experience of M Models and the web of lies and false promises offered.
We will uncover lots of information relating to the owners of the companies involved and will give you all of the information we have found on the people and how they are all tie in together and point to the main man in the scam at the front of M Models, Ricky!
Our experience with M Models, Birmingham model agency. NOW MM Models / Court Yard Studios.
In May 2019 (remember this date for later) search was done by my girlfriend for a modelling agency locally to take her daughter to. For the Purpose of this article I will refer to her as Miss A.
From the search results returned a website called CastingT. https://www.castingt.com
After sending off an email and we shortly had a response and was referred to a modelling agency called M Models based in Birmingham at The Big Peg, Vyse Street, Birmingham, B18 6NF. The following websites and details link to M Models. Check online the poor reviews of this company.
www.onlinebookingteam.com, https://www.modelbookingsonline.com & https://www.allmodelswanted.com/ & www.modelsportfolio.co.uk
London HQ – 0203 916 5848 – Manchester HQ – 0161 362 4424 – Bucharest HQ – +403 1630 6188
I have been informed that M MODELS have been kicked out of the Big Peg in Birmingham and moved to a new address locally in Birmingham.
They are also using a name Court Yard Studios.
The new address for M Models is: Bradford court Business Centre , Bradford street, Digbeth , Birmingham, B12 0NS.
They have also updated there company name to MM Models. https://mmmodel.co.uk/ This domain was only registered on 14 October 2019
See the update at the bottom of the page for more information.
We got a appointment with M Models over the next few days offering us a free photo shoot and an opportunity for them to see if Miss A had the right tools for the job. We turned up and the building was a high rise big building with offices called the Big Peg. We found the right floor but was a bit surprised, apart from office numbers M Models was the only company with no “name plate” showing the company name. It was by pure luck we bumped into a lady that was already there and had gone out to visit the toilet. She showed us where to go.
We went in and filled in some registration forms, waited around for other people there to have photos taken and before long we was whisked into a studio where Miss A had several photos taken. 10 minutes later we were back in the waiting room and was told that the owner was currently sending the photos that were just taken to several modelling agencies to see if they like the pictures.
20-30 minutes later and we was ushered into a small room and introduced to a man calling himself the owner, Ricky. He flattered us and gave us the spiel on how one of the modelling agencies had seen Miss A previously and wanted more. He said he had sent the pictures taken to several modeling agencies. Ricky explained that he and his company was not a model agency but they were more of an agent that put our details forward to modelling agencies. Ricky was very convincing in this role and totally believable. His manor and actions were relaxed. At this point we had no reason to think there was anything different than what we was being told.
Ricky told us her had sent Miss A’s picture to several agencies and had got several replies. The reason we was kept waiting outside for so long was due to the conversations taking place inside this room between Ricky and all the modelling agencies that was fighting to get Miss A on board after seeing a few sample pictures. Ricky laid out his plans and what he does as a company. He told us that he would NEVER take on a new potential model if at least three modelling agencies all wanted the model to be registered with them. As luck would have it out of the agencies Ricky had contacted it turns out at least 4 of them wanted Miss A! Ricky explain that we had 2 options and also explained what he did for the money. He offered us two options, an UK option with our details being sent to 30 modelling agencies in the UK that he worked with closely. He would only put our details forward to the agencies that had potential. This option cost £300. The other option was basically the same but Miss A’s details and images were apparently passed onto hundreds of agencies around Europe and this option cost £600. He suggested we did not go to this option as we would have to much work and it would involve to much travelling around Europe, due to Miss A’s age and schooling it was not recommended. He suggested the £300 option would be a good option. He told us we would also get a free website for the £300 which we could have control of and manage ourselves. All of this process is a bit rush and under pressure against the clock.
We thought about this for a few minutes and discussed the options given to us and decided to take him up on his offer of the £300 UK option. A few forms later signed and we had signed up with M Models and Ricky. Later after speaking to our credit card company it was pointed out in the small print the document we signed at the time was just a receipt accepting that the £300 fee was actually us paying for the “free” images that was taken that day and the signature was confirming we had received the photo’s and agreed to the charge.
The next process happened quickly. Within a couple of hours we had emails from three different agencies. Momco, Ignit3 modelling and Fusion model management. All offering us to go and take Miss A for an introduction meeting. The emails from Ignite3, Momco and Fusion arrived really fast. These three agencies were the three agencies that Ricky said he had send the pictures to and they all wanted to take Miss A onto there books.
These are the details of each company including the directors details
Ignit3 Talent
IGNIT3 TALENT, Studio 3.11e, Citibase, Laurie House, Colyear St, Derby. DE1 1LA
Telephone: 01332 899550 | Email: info@ignit3talent.co.uk
www.ignit3talent.co.uk
Ignit3 was Incorporated on 21 May 2019. The director is listed as Amar Singh DHANJAL. Born October 1997. https://www.facebook.com/amar.dhanjal
Momco
International House
61 Mosley Street
Manchester
M2 3HZ
Incorporation Date: 2018-12-04
www.momco.co.uk
MAYOR-PETERS, Brady
Director
6 Adamson Court, Clarence Road, Warrington, United Kingdom, WA42PH
December 1989 4 December
https://www.facebook.com/Bradypeters13
FUSION MANAGEMENT LIMITED
Company number 07620988
88 Wood Street, London
EC2V 7QF
Incorporated on 4 May 2011 Company status: Liquidation
So following on from the emails to contact all three of these modelling agencies we was contacted and invited to go to the offices of each of these agencies. Firstly we went to the offices of Momco and was told how Miss A had so much potential they would give us lots of work because she “had what it takes”. A £99 registration fee was paid to Momco to join the agency on 5th June 2019.
We then took a drive to Derby on 13 June 2019 and also paid £200 to ignit3 Talent for the registration of Miss A. Also, Miss A’s sibling Mr B was also present and after an interview they confirmed they also wanted to sign him up because they had work opportunities for both.
That evening we had the following email confirmation from Ignit3 Talent. THIS IS WHERE there suspicion started and alarm bells started to ring.
Check out both Momco and ignit3 names on the email.
Check the email above from Ignit3 and you will see it says Kind Regards, The MOMCO team!!!
Our hearts sank as we realised there was something massively dodgy about this whole situation and the realisation that we had been conned into handing over £600 to some fake lying agencies started to sink in.
At this point I think it’s worth pointing out that there was an appointment set up for a meeting in London with FUSION Management limted. We looked into the company and the company Fusion Management at the time was actually in Liquidation.
So what happened next?
Over the course of the next few weeks we contacted each of the agencies and requested full refunds from each of them.
We requested the following refunds.
M Models, Birmingham £300
Momco, Warrington £100
Ignit3, Derby £200
All three requests were declined.
We raised a chargeback via the credit card companies but this is where the small print kicks in.
All of the companies that was paid via credit card sucessfully defended the chargeback based on a single technical detail. (Remember earlier in this article). The paper work we was rushed to sign stated that the £300 was a receipt for the photo’s that were taken that day. The paperwork suggests that we have received copies of the images and this is what the £300 is actually for. No mention whatsoever of any contract or the service of supplying agencies with the models details.
Another technical wording difference can be found on the websites of all of these companies. The following phrase / line can be found.
” We are not an employment agency nor do we claim to be “
Basically the law in the UK means ANY LEGITIMATE modelling agencies as actually classed as an employment agencie and have to follow specific rules and laws. By stating they are not an employment agency these companies are not only contradicting the company and services they provide but ultimately giving themselves a loop hole / get out clause for when an unsuspecting person like us loses money and tries to get it back.
Right now you might be asking the same quetsions I was and you might be searching for some answers right? You might be asking yourself how can I make the claims I have made in this article. Well continue reading below and I will explain how I put together this whole network of lies and fake modelling agenicies set up purely to prey on and scam / defraud vulnerable people.
I also found several other reviews about this company confirming to me this was a scam. M Models modelling agency SCAM
So lets look in some further details at these comapnies, there websites and there services and let me explain how I confirmed the single big scammer behind the entire web of lies and fraud.
The person / company behind registering this domain name for M Models have chosen to HIDE there details from the public register.
So I did a check on the website modelsportfolio.co.uk ( M MODELS) and found the following information.
The software used to create this website is the leading
For those that do not understand these details I what these details mean. Some of the information is self explanitory.
The person behind this website has used the company Unlimited Web Hosting to registar the domain name and also Host the web site. The name servers ns0.unlimited.uk.net are basically the link in the back ground that tells your browser which IP address and which server to point all visitor to.
Registrar:
Unlimited Web Hosting UK t/a Unlimited Web Hosting UK Ltd [Tag = UNLIMITED]
URL: https://www.unlimitedwebhosting.co.uk
Relevant dates:
Registered on: 06-Oct-2018
Expiry date: 06-Oct-2020
Last updated: 26-Sep-2019
Registration status:
Registered until expiry date.
Name servers:
ns0.unlimited.uk.net
ns1.unlimited.uk.net
More M Model websites:
onlinebookingteam.com – Registrant Name: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY – There is however a note in the registration details suggesting there is a company called Photon Promotions is a registrar. A quick 2 minute search and I found the following information.
- Registered office address – 130 Old Street, London, England, EC1V 9BD
- Company status – Active — Active proposal to strike off
- Company type – Private limited Company
- Incorporated on – 26 June 2018
Photon Promotions limited has only been incorporated for a short time. The owner KHAN, Zulfqar Ahmed has hidden his real address behind the company.
The website only registered in January 2019 funnily enough points to the same nameservers (ns0.unlimited.uk.net) as Modelsportfolio.co.uk (M Models)
clientUpdateProhibited
ns1.unlimited.uk.net
Unit 2 & 3, Eurohouse
1 Overbridge Road
Salford
M7 1SL
The phone number also registered to a company called overbridge studio. There website is registered to:
Registry Admin ID:
Admin Name: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Name Server: ns0.unlimited.uk.net & Name Server: ns1.unlimited.uk.net
The contact details for Photo Promotions also direct to a different domain name: photon-photography.co.uk
And believe it or not this domain has the following registration information.
Domain name:
photon-photography.co.uk
Data validation:
Nominet was able to match the registrant’s name and address against a 3rd party data source on 24-Oct-2018
Registrar:
Unlimited Web Hosting UK t/a Unlimited Web Hosting UK Ltd [Tag = UNLIMITED]
URL: https://www.unlimitedwebhosting.co.uk
Relevant dates:
Registered on: 24-Oct-2018
Expiry date: 24-Oct-2019
Last updated: 24-Oct-2018
Registration status:
Registered until expiry date.
Name servers:
ns0.unlimited.uk.net
ns1.unlimited.uk.net
Same details as M Models.
I noticed that some domains and websites also seen to be registered by a company called Mesh Digital and hosted on a different server. This seems to be the case for many domains and websites registered and created more recently. It also gets interesting as the domain MODELBOOKINGSONLINE.COM which belongs to M Models and is emailed with there details is also documented as the owner and registered registrant for this domain.
Domain Name: MODELBOOKINGSONLINE.COM also belongs to M Models.
Registrant Name: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Organization: Photon Promotions
allmodelswanted.com is another domain owned by M Models. The registration details are now clearly being hidden.
Registrant Name: Identity Protection Service
Registrant Organization: Identity Protect Limited
But what gives it away so much is the following information.
Domain:allmodelswanted.com
Registrar: Mesh Digital Limited
Name Server: ns.mainnameserver.com
Name Server: ns2.mainnameserver.com
Mesh digital is part of a huge company in the UK that provides domain registration and hosting services.
The next twist – Gathering evidence
As you can see from the information above there is a lot of evidence pointing to the fact that all of these domains are being operated by one single place /company / person / scammer.
So what more information do I have.
Well remember Ignit3 Talent? Guess what…..
The Whois report for Ignit3 Talent confirms the domain and website have been registered by the same company and point to the same nameservers.
Domain name:
ignit3talent.co.uk
Data validation:
Nominet was not able to match the registrant’s name and/or address against a 3rd party source on 16-May-2019
Registrar:
Unlimited Web Hosting UK t/a Unlimited Web Hosting UK Ltd [Tag = UNLIMITED]
URL: https://www.unlimitedwebhosting.co.uk
Relevant dates:
Registered on: 16-May-2019
Expiry date: 16-May-2020
Last updated: 16-May-2019
Registration status:
Registered until expiry date.
Name servers:
ns0.unlimited.uk.net
ns1.unlimited.uk.net
Who Next? Momco
So then I looked at Momco whois information and found the following information.
Domain name: momco.co.uk
Data validation:
Nominet was able to match the registrant’s name and address against a 3rd party data source on 26-Nov-2018
Registrar:
Unlimited Web Hosting UK t/a Unlimited Web Hosting UK Ltd [Tag = UNLIMITED]
URL: https://www.unlimitedwebhosting.co.uk
Relevant dates:
Registered on: 26-Nov-2018
Expiry date: 26-Nov-2019
Last updated: 26-Nov-2018
Registration status:
Registered until expiry date.
Name servers:
ns0.unlimited.uk.net
ns1.unlimited.uk.net
The company Momco also have this website https://momcompany.co.uk/ (momcompany whois report)
Another point to note that suggests these companies are all the same scam is the software used to create all of there websites.
All of these domains and companies are using the same software called https://www.mainboard.com. It’s software designed for modelling agencies.
All of the scam web sites I have been looking into are the same graphical design layouts with the same cookie notification etc.
So looking around the internet for similar websites and similar complaints about the same scam I found a number of web sites that should be noted.
Check out the following web sites that I have found on the internet.
They all link together by the same phone numbers and / or locations. All websites have similar bad reviews and have been scamming people based on the reviews I have found online. I find it to much of a coincidence that all of these websites have been designed using the same software, registered by the same company. Hosted on the same servers. Graphically look very similar.
Domain Name: LEEDSPHOTOGRAPHYSTUDIO.COM
Registrant Name: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Name Server: ns0.unlimited.uk.net
Name Server: ns1.unlimited.uk.net
See how similar the websites are:
managedmodel.com
Domain Name: MANAGEDMODEL.COM
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.meshdigital.com
Name Server: ns.mainnameserver.com
Name Server: ns2.mainnameserver.com
beingamodel.co.uk
Domain name:
beingamodel.co.uk
Data validation:
Nominet was able to match the registrant’s name and address against a 3rd party data source on 04-Jan-2019
Registrar:
Heart Internet Ltd t/a Heart Internet [Tag = HEARTINTERNET]
URL: http://www.heartinternet.co.uk (a part of mesh digital)
Relevant dates:
Registered on: 04-Jan-2019
Expiry date: 04-Jan-2020
Last updated: 04-Jan-2019
Registration status:
Registered until expiry date.
Name servers:
ns.mainnameserver.com
ns2.mainnameserver.com
amazedmodels.com
Registrar: MESH DIGITAL LIMITED
Registrant Name: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Name Server: ns.mainnameserver.com
Name Server: ns2.mainnameserver.com
bookamodels.com
Registrar: MESH DIGITAL LIMITED
Registrant Name: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Name Server: ns.mainnameserver.com
Name Server: ns2.mainnameserver.com
managingmodels.com
Registrar: MESH DIGITAL LIMITED
Registrant Name: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Name Server: ns.mainnameserver.com
Name Server: ns2.mainnameserver.com
angelsmanagement.co.uk
Domain name:
angelsmanagement.co.uk
Data validation:
Nominet was not able to match the registrant’s name and/or address against a 3rd party source on 27-Feb-2017
Registrar:
Heart Internet Ltd t/a Heart Internet [Tag = HEARTINTERNET]
URL: http://www.heartinternet.co.uk (a part of mesh digital)
Relevant dates:
Registered on: 27-Feb-2017
Expiry date: 27-Feb-2020
Last updated: 27-Feb-2019
Registration status:
Registered until expiry date.
Name servers:
ns.mainnameserver.com
ns2.mainnameserver.com
The conclusion and how it all fits together
So by now you’re probably either bored.. fallen asleep.. or just damn tired and want to know how I have managed to piece this all together to prove that these websites all belong to Ricci Martin of M Models.
Firstly the evidence above is pretty conclusive. All of the websites for all of the companies are linked and operated by the same person. This is not a small company operating a small scam. This is a big multi building with many people all involved with the scam. Running offices up and down the country. Registering limited companies. Building multiple websites. The financial rewards must be huge for the guys to build the network they have.
Read on and let me explain how these websites and companies all point back to the original source.
So lets take this back right to the beginning.
Where did I get the details from for M Models?
CastingTalent – www.CastingT.com – https://www.whois.com/whois/castingt.com
Let’s take a look at the details for this website.
Registrant Name: Domain Admin Registrant Organization: Whois Privacy Corp. Registrant Street: Ocean Centre, Montagu Foreshore, East Bay Street Registrant City: Nassau Registrant State/Province: New Providence Registrant Postal Code: Registrant Country: BS Registrant Phone: +1.5163872248
So, a quick search online and I found the website and company castingT is actually based here:
The Big Peg, Vyse Street, Birmingham, B18 6NF
This is the SAME address as M MODELS.
I checked the whois information for CastingT and they all point to the USA. This was slightly confusing but I’m not a fool. This has obviously been done to throw people off the scent of a scam. so I continued looking into castingT and found the following.
Advertising there UK offices on the website that is hosted in the USA and registered to a state in the USA but also leaving on details in there terms that the charges are in $. A conflicting bit of information.
I checked out more information and found the castingT web site is listed as being owned by a company called M Jax ltd.
The following information has been taked from companies house.
M JAX LTD Company number 09228894
- Registered office address
- 32 Brook House Brook Street, Tipton, England, DY4 9DD
- Correspondence address
- 32 Brook House, Brook Street, Tipton, England, DY4 9DD
- Role ACTIVE: Director
- Date of birth: July 1956
- Appointed on: 22 September 2014
So basically the own of CastingT (Ann Cherry) is registered to 32 Brook House, Brook Street, Tipton, England, DY4 9DD.
If you look at the bottom of the CastingT website there is a link to the company that designed the web site called IDA. It stands for Inky Design Agency Limited so lets take a little look at the company behind the design of castingT.com website.
So we took a lok into Inky Design Agency Ltd and it appears there is a couple of companies called Inky Design Agency. All have a very similar logo. I’m guessing our scammers have copied the other company name and logo to create some confusion around which company is actually a legitimate company and which company. Lets concentrate on the company and website linking from castingT.com as his is going to be the company were interested in.
Here is the details from the whois registrar.
Domain Name: INKYDESIGNAGENCY.COM Registrant Name: Domain Admin Registrant Organization: Whois Privacy Corp. Registrant Street: Ocean Centre, Montagu Foreshore, East Bay Street Registrant City: Nassau Registrant State/Province: New Providence Registrant Postal Code: Registrant Country: BS Registrant Phone: +1.5163872248 Registrant Phone Ext:
I’m not surerised to see the same registration details as the castingT.com website as the same company has made this website also. In true scammer fashion IDK have again chosen to hide there details using a privacy service and withheld there company details.
INKYDESIGNAGENCY.COM has details on there website of the registered company to the below address. You can see the company is hiding behind a PO box address.
15. Our Details
The full name of our company is Inky Design Agency LTD.
Our registered address is:
Inky Design Agency
Office 2834
PO Box 6945
London
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
According to companies house the owners of Inky Design Agency Ltd was Rich Martin. (Ricci Martin)
Rich Martin also hides his address in the companies house registration details.
Correspondence address: PO Box 694, Office 2834, PO BOX 694, London, England, W1A 6US
Interesting points is that the company IDK was dissolved in 2016 and no longer active yet the company website is very much still active and trading.
So is there other website which confirms the owners of INK DESIGN / CASTING T / M MODELS are all the same people.
On this website the contact page confirms the address details to be 32 Brook House, Brook Street, Tipton, England, DY4 9DD.
This is the same address as Ann Cherry the reported director of CastingT.com.
There you have it. In black and white. The owners of M MODELS and the CastingT are all the same people.
I will be taking all of this information to the police fraud department with the hope that the find it useful and will use this information to bring down the people behind this scam. I’m under no illusion that these name and people that have registered these businesses are just aliases and the real culprits are probably sitting behind them.
I know the article was long winded and congratulations if you made it all the way to the end but this whole scam is long winded with a lot of time and effort going into fooling people into thinking all of these agnecies are legitimate and real agencies.
If this article stops just one more person losing another penny to these complete and utter low lifes then it’s been worth the endless hours I’ve spent
looking into these and creating this review of our experience and how £600 was lost to these scammers.
Update –
The new address for M Models is: Bradford court Business Centre , Bradford street, Digbeth , Birmingham, B12 0NS.
They have also updated there company name to MM Models. https://mmmodel.co.uk/
This domain was only registered on 14 October 2019. See below for more information.
The following information has been given to me by another parent scammed by MM Models.
The following information is unconfirmed and has not any experience I have had.
Online Booking Team – 07307724369 Contact: tabz
The following person is reportedly working for MM Models. His name is Wayne Scott Fox.
Apparently he is a DJ in Birmingham as well.
I did have a picture of this person but the picture did not belong to me but if you would like to go to his public facebook profile and see the same picture you can do here.
https://www.facebook.com/djwaynescottfox
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Do we did a bit more digging into the company behind MM Models in Digbeth.
The money that was Paid to M / MM Model was actually paid to a company called Promotional Workz Limited.
PROMOTIONALWORKZ LTD (11831058)
The director of This company is listed as FARNELL, Anthony.
Anthony Farnell is apparently a director of another company in Manchester. It goes a small distance to explaining the connections to the dodgy photo agencies up north in Mancheser etc.
Update 12 November: Today I had an email from MM Models threatening me to take down the article or they will be forced to publish there own blog in reply to this blog.
Below is the paraphrased email I got today.
Subject: Model portfolio
Message Body:
We are contacting you regarding the blog on your company website world niche.
You are obviously very upset with the 300 pound you spent for the 30 excellent pictures and the website for your daughter.
This we find very odd as you are very happy with the images taken on the day.
* You have them on the world niche face book
* You have them on your own social media
* In fact you even posted a link to the website on your world niche website.
We have screen shot these for our own blog if we are pushed to post it.
Can you please explain what the problem is and who with ?
You are posting photographs of local DJ,s claiming they are part of a scam.
There are several names you mention that are also part of a scam which again is untrue.
To my knowledge you have paid 5.50 per photograph plus approx 100 for a website which you dearly love as the screen shots show.
So what is the issue ?
You are obviously very upset with the 300 pound you spent for the 30 excellent pictures and the website for your daughter.
Who said the photo’s was excellent? I have not mentioned anywhere that the photo’s taken on the day was excellent.
This we find very odd as you are very happy with the images taken on the day. Again, where have I said I was very happy???
If I was very happy I would not have requested a refund. If I was very happy I would not have contacted my bank to issue a chargeback for the £300 you took for a missold product.
* You have them on the world niche face book Correct
* You have them on your own social media Correct
* In fact you even posted a link to the website on your world niche website. Correct.
Yes I have a link to the portfolio and I think maybe 10 of the images out of all the images you took was actually usuable and have been put onto a social media site. What do you expect someone to do with these pictures now I have them and you refused a refund. I would have gladly given you the images back, deleted every single copy and removed any of them from any social media platform if you had agreed to the refund. Not to mention the fact that these pictures was actually posted to these platforms before we knew this whole set up was a scam.
We have screen shot these for our own blog if we are pushed to post it. Well done.
Can you please explain what the problem is and who with ? You must be a complete moron if you need me to answer that question!.
You are posting photographs of local DJ,s claiming they are part of a scam. Yes, again true. It has been reported they have been a part of your scam in your latest office. Unconfirmed to me of course but any information I think others may find useful will be made available.
There are several names you mention that are also part of a scam which again is untrue. What is not true? The scam or the people involved?
So you’re admitting this is a scam but saying the people I have named are not a part of it? I’m confused??
To my knowledge you have paid 5.50 per photograph plus approx 100 for a website which you dearly love as the screen shots show.
So what is the issue ?
Maths at school really isn’t your strong subject is it max? Maybe you forgot but 2 minutes earlier you told me I paid £300 for 30 images. Meaning the images cost me £10 each. Now I’m suddenly paying £5.50 per picture because i’m being ripped off for £100 towards a website that’s not been used since the day you scammers set it up.
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Update: 19 December 2019
So at the start of November the owner of Ignit3 Talent www.ignit3talent.com contacted me via facebook and started up a conversation in order to try to clear his and Ignit3 Talents name. His name and email
| Amar Dhanjal : amardhanjal@ignit3talent.com |
During the conversation Dhanjal denied having any records of taking any money from us for the registration of two children. Eventually he claimed to have found the records but because we paid cash £100 each (£200) he said he was on holiday at the time and could not confirm ignit3 talent had had any money because aparently the people working there took the money and he never got it.
I was offerent a refund by Dhanjal and the opportunity to keep both kids on Ignit3 Talents records to be put forward for work and castings.
Dhanjal claims Ignit3 Talent got involved with a silent partner and they was the ones responsible for the issues everyone experienced. He offered me the chance to travel from Worcestershire to his office in Derby to tell me all about the people involved.
His offer of a refund changed to a offer to refund just a single registration fee (£100). I refused to travel such a distance to discuss this but offered him my time of a phone call to explain everything he seemed so desperate to tell me.
The outcome? Dhanjal ignored all future email and the refund never happened (to date 19 December).
My opinion: another load of lies from the scam model agency in Derby Ignit2 talent.
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Known websites and aliases / companies assocciated with M Models.
M Models
Online booking team
Momco
Fusion management
Ignit3 talant
MM Models
Managing models – www.managingmodels.com
Court yard studios
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Update: August 2020
Now we’re slowly coming out of lockdown the scammers behind the model agency scams are again searching for marks. They are tagetting the vulnerable and I have now been given more information about another location these are working from. I have previously is https://www.leedsphotographystudio.com/
The location is: Leeds Photography Studio, Topcliffe Mills Topcliffe Lane Morley Leeds LS27 0HL.
Yet again the domain registration is hidden but the following details are available.
ns1.unlimited.uk.net
As you can the pattern is the same. The same company used to register the domain. The same company used to host the domain.
Another website linked to these scames is https://www.modelstudio.reviews/
The dodgy fake looking review site is also registered to the following details.
clientTransferProhibited
clientUpdateProhibited
ns.mainnameserver.com
Domain Name: modelstudio.reviews Registrar WHOIS Server: domains.meshdigital.com
Notice how its the same pattern of domain registratino and domain hosting used by the people behind these websites.
So here are the main contacts to be wary of and stay away from as they will scam you and keep your money leaving you with no modelling work and no money!
0161 726 5645
0113 871 5962
07984367235
07729252988 – Allie, The booking team.
One of the companies behind the scam appearing on bank statements is Square Promotions Ltd: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/12603632
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SQUARE WORKS MEDIA LTD https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/12162052
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