eModel.com Fraud Investigation Report

Many people allege an emodel scam targets the aspiring models, while others believe it is more focused on the modeling scouts. One model scout, who had worked for emodel for a few months, summarized it this way:

The scam is most definitely on the scouts. I quit there after three months or so and my boss told me that he was surprised that I lasted that long. The turn-around rate at this company is ridiculous and emodel is fully aware of it. That's why they make so many promises... they know that you'll never stick around long enough to even care if they happen. You work strictly on commission only and believe it or not -- it is difficult sometimes to make the enrollment numbers... no matter how hard you try. They want a high volume of people out on the streets looking for models and this is what they get. Pure and simple... they take advantage of their employees, at least on the corporate end.

If this is true, emodel is taking lots of people for a ride. They are getting people to work for them for free. Further, these people who work for them for free are getting others to sign up for about $500 a person.

One former scout said there was a quota: if the new scouts did not recruit 10 models, they would not be hired. Let us say one new scout recruited 9 models. Each model pays $500, for a total of $4,500. Since the scout did not make the quota, he or she must leave, but emodel still has the models recruited. They pocket $4,500; the scout gets nothing; and the models will continue to pay emodel $20 every month.

Of course, it is even worse if the scouts paid for their training. Some paid $395. If they did not make the quota, they would have worked for nothing and emodel would be $395 ahead for each scout who did not make the quota, on top of up to $4,500 they would get for the models who were recruited.

So what this ultimately shows is how models and scouts can take large risks and lose money, while emodel can take no risks and make large profits.

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