eModel.com Fraud Investigation Report

"What they're doing isn't right. They're telling people who have no chance of being models to put their pictures up. I guarantee you, the money those people are paying is more than most of them will ever make in their lifetime modeling." — Bill Ford, Ford Models, est. 1946

emodel.com was in the news, and the subject of some hard-hitting investigative journalism by New Times Broward-Palm Beach.

This newspaper in Florida published an article on September 6, 2001, entitled Hustling for Models, “An e-caveat for beautiful people trying to find employment via the Internet.”

The damning exposé by Wyatt Olson is largely successful based on the testimony of Ivette Mendive, a 33-year-old former employee at emodel.com.

It offers an insider’s account into how the firm operates to lure women into their web. Ivette Mendive became so sick of the company, she quit. And not only did she quit, Ivette called the same people she had recruited, and advised them to abandon emodel.com.

Another former emodel.com scout, who worked at the company for a month, wrote a very long and detailed account of how emodel conducted its business, and then offered the following apology:

I personally would like to express my deepest apologies to all of the poor models I've scouted that took the time to take part in a scam like the Emodel scam.

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