A couple of days ago, I received this email:
Hello, I'm Melissa How are you ? I'll like to know your free available date in October for my family reunion (5 hours photo coverage). Also i want family portraits done for the all the families coming together for the reunion. Do you accept credit card payment ? I got you contact information from the Internet can i have your name and cell number Thanks Melisa You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace . . . Isaiah 55:12
The wording makes me quite suspicious. So does the email address:
[email protected] via users503.heteml.jp
From Japan? Send me the travel money!! Please!!
But what really sealed it is that although I have won some prizes for my photography, Melissa clearly has not seen any of my family and portrait work. I take great photos, but often the subjects are less than pleased with the results. Think Ken Danby, something like this selfie:
or think "ultra-realism" like this.