Scam Offer Through Efty Landing Page

[Brian Baird]

I received this scammy message through an unverified inquiry on one of my Efty landing pages:

CREATION DATE 11-24-2016 06:12
CLIENT Brian Dunn
[email protected]
VERIFIED No
PHONE 8883196336
OFFER 8883196336
IP 70.112.138.60
Austin (US)
MESSAGE

I am with AMD FIlm Studios and we are currently in pre-production of a reality TV show and would like to discuss with you the possibility of using your business in an episode or two with our stars. (not negative in any way)​

Your business as well as employee extras (if applicable) would receive compensation, on a case by case basis, and we can work around your businesses schedule.

I would like to know who I should speak to regarding this matter to go over details and see if this is a fit. I would also like to categorically state that this is in no way a sales or solicitation contact.

My profession has me tied up frequently, so email would be bestt to reply back to me so we can set up a day and time to speak on the phone.

Thank you,

Brian Dunn
Production Assignment Coordinator
AMD FIlm Studios
www.amdfilmstudios.com
[email protected]
_________
888-319-6336 x713
(by appointment only please)

A google search for [email protected] showed this email address was used to scam others.

Does anyone else receive scam solicitations through landing page inquiries?

​

 

[Brian Baird]

There's a ring of websites and email addresses sending spam from IP address 70.112.138.60, see the report here https://cleantalk.org/blacklists/70.112.138.60

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[pinkdragon]

1. If you visit their webpage, amdtvproduction.com, you will see some photos with "their" work.
2. Just save 2-3 pics you see there, and use Google Image search. You will find the exact same pictures, not cropped, on various other genuine websites. None of them are related to amdtvproduction.

 

[TestCase]

Am I the only one who feels a bit sorry for @Angela Acello ?

Maybe it's the Canadian in me, all forgiving, but it seems like she has gone to an awful lot of trouble to explain herself.

I would say we need to have ALL the facts before making the forum unwelcome to any potential new member. Maybe we do need to call and investigate or something.

Hmm, I will reserve my opinion for now.

Mmmmmm... I'm going to go out on a limb here and say YES!

Bless you and your Canandian innocence.

 

[alex067]

No one got scammed because no one is that stupid to fall for it lol...

 

[deez007]

Wow man, I have never seen this one before......thanks for letting us know.

Gotta say, this has to be one of the more creative ones I've seen in a long time..

They even provided full contact details and website URL that goes to a live site of a proper business. The only red flag is that the email domain does not match the website url so chances they just trying to leverage of AMD Studios business name.

Thanks again for sharing...

 

[Asfas1000]

Received similar message from contact form but from amdfilmstudios . com

Domain regged Aug 2016.

 

[NPer]

I got this exact message maybe a month ago on efty too.. I was a bit curious and taken away because it was kinda different, but I just ignored it. Thanks for the research and share...

Sounds like a bot which seems to be targeting those pages. The messages sent will change from time to time, etc to hopefully come across as legit, but probably won't stop unless some changes are made to how the form is processed.

 

[Dun]

*********NOT A SCAM IN ANY WAY*******

I received the email, actually called and spoke with that gentleman, and then several months later they came to my Flower shop and filmed. THERE WAS NO SCAM IN ANY WAY – They didn’t ask me to pay for anything.

They were all extremely nice and respectful of my place actually. I guess the approach is odd, but it was all real. I did find a voice message that I missed before the email came in.

They paid me, quite handsomely actually. I don't know about that site but they said they were splitting from the main company into the new film division, so maybe that was it.

I have seen other posts of other people that had them film in their place as well. I think I may have pictures.

I hate to see flippant remarks like this. I hate that word "scam" when no one does the research.

The reason I say this is due to the fact that it happened to my daughter, and if it is not true, do research or don’t post it at all as I see many people here mentioned the full info was in there.

Why didn’t you just call? If it was a scam you could have exposed it, and when you confirm it was real you simply just don’t write the post. Probably would have taken a total of 10 minutes! (lol)

That’s how long my initial call took to go over what they wanted to film in my place.


Anyway, my daughter had a chain named dance studio and someone called her a scam when they never even came to her classes, but the funny part was, they were commenting about another store and NEVER WENT to their classes either.

Just an off the cuff remark that hurt her. Now these people are big, so I am sure this post does not affect them, but I personally feel there is certain amount of responsibility we all have when posting things.

It seems guilty until proven innocent seems to be the norm these days.

I did tons of research before I ever let them in my door and it al was extremely positive.

Please do not take offence to anything I am saying here Brian. It is more of a general thing I am mentioning. It is a great service to expose possible scams, but maybe really check it out first.

I had to comment on this as I had a good experience with them, and because I don't understand why sometimes people would use the "Scam" word when no one seemed to take a sec to cal or research a bit.


You should have said "curious email" maybe, or researched an never posted. My personal experience probably tainted me a bit so again, I apologize if I offended anyone in any way, and I thank you for your time.

Very interesting.

 

[jamesau]

*********NOT A SCAM IN ANY WAY*******

I received the email, actually called and spoke with that gentleman, and then several months later they came to my Flower shop and filmed. THERE WAS NO SCAM IN ANY WAY – They didn’t ask me to pay for anything.

They were all extremely nice and respectful of my place actually. I guess the approach is odd, but it was all real. I did find a voice message that I missed before the email came in.

They paid me, quite handsomely actually. I don't know about that site but they said they were splitting from the main company into the new film division, so maybe that was it.

I have seen other posts of other people that had them film in their place as well. I think I may have pictures.

I hate to see flippant remarks like this. I hate that word "scam" when no one does the research.

The reason I say this is due to the fact that it happened to my daughter, and if it is not true, do research or don’t post it at all as I see many people here mentioned the full info was in there.

Why didn’t you just call? If it was a scam you could have exposed it, and when you confirm it was real you simply just don’t write the post. Probably would have taken a total of 10 minutes! (lol)

That’s how long my initial call took to go over what they wanted to film in my place.


Anyway, my daughter had a chain named dance studio and someone called her a scam when they never even came to her classes, but the funny part was, they were commenting about another store and NEVER WENT to their classes either.

Just an off the cuff remark that hurt her. Now these people are big, so I am sure this post does not affect them, but I personally feel there is certain amount of responsibility we all have when posting things.

It seems guilty until proven innocent seems to be the norm these days.

I did tons of research before I ever let them in my door and it al was extremely positive.

Please do not take offence to anything I am saying here Brian. It is more of a general thing I am mentioning. It is a great service to expose possible scams, but maybe really check it out first.

I had to comment on this as I had a good experience with them, and because I don't understand why sometimes people would use the "Scam" word when no one seemed to take a sec to cal or research a bit.


You should have said "curious email" maybe, or researched an never posted. My personal experience probably tainted me a bit so again, I apologize if I offended anyone in any way, and I thank you for your time.

@Angela Acello: May I ask how this group contacted you? Do you have an Efty parking page? Or through your business website?

 

[todaygold]

*********NOT A SCAM IN ANY WAY*******

I received the email, actually called and spoke with that gentleman, and then several months later they came to my Flower shop and filmed. THERE WAS NO SCAM IN ANY WAY – They didn’t ask me to pay for anything.

They were all extremely nice and respectful of my place actually. I guess the approach is odd, but it was all real. I did find a voice message that I missed before the email came in.

They paid me, quite handsomely actually. I don't know about that site but they said they were splitting from the main company into the new film division, so maybe that was it.

I have seen other posts of other people that had them film in their place as well. I think I may have pictures.

I hate to see flippant remarks like this. I hate that word "scam" when no one does the research.

The reason I say this is due to the fact that it happened to my daughter, and if it is not true, do research or don’t post it at all as I see many people here mentioned the full info was in there.

Why didn’t you just call? If it was a scam you could have exposed it, and when you confirm it was real you simply just don’t write the post. Probably would have taken a total of 10 minutes! (lol)

That’s how long my initial call took to go over what they wanted to film in my place.


Anyway, my daughter had a chain named dance studio and someone called her a scam when they never even came to her classes, but the funny part was, they were commenting about another store and NEVER WENT to their classes either.

Just an off the cuff remark that hurt her. Now these people are big, so I am sure this post does not affect them, but I personally feel there is certain amount of responsibility we all have when posting things.

It seems guilty until proven innocent seems to be the norm these days.

I did tons of research before I ever let them in my door and it al was extremely positive.

Please do not take offence to anything I am saying here Brian. It is more of a general thing I am mentioning. It is a great service to expose possible scams, but maybe really check it out first.

I had to comment on this as I had a good experience with them, and because I don't understand why sometimes people would use the "Scam" word when no one seemed to take a sec to cal or research a bit.


You should have said "curious email" maybe, or researched an never posted. My personal experience probably tainted me a bit so again, I apologize if I offended anyone in any way, and I thank you for your time.

Interesting that this is your very FIRST POST on here. What made you decide to create a namepros account?

 

[BrandChimp]

*********NOT A SCAM IN ANY WAY*******

I received the email, actually called and spoke with that gentleman, and then several months later they came to my Flower shop and filmed. THERE WAS NO SCAM IN ANY WAY – They didn’t ask me to pay for anything.

They were all extremely nice and respectful of my place actually. I guess the approach is odd, but it was all real. I did find a voice message that I missed before the email came in.

They paid me, quite handsomely actually. I don't know about that site but they said they were splitting from the main company into the new film division, so maybe that was it.

I have seen other posts of other people that had them film in their place as well. I think I may have pictures.

I hate to see flippant remarks like this. I hate that word "scam" when no one does the research.

The reason I say this is due to the fact that it happened to my daughter, and if it is not true, do research or don’t post it at all as I see many people here mentioned the full info was in there.

Why didn’t you just call? If it was a scam you could have exposed it, and when you confirm it was real you simply just don’t write the post. Probably would have taken a total of 10 minutes! (lol)

That’s how long my initial call took to go over what they wanted to film in my place.


Anyway, my daughter had a chain named dance studio and someone called her a scam when they never even came to her classes, but the funny part was, they were commenting about another store and NEVER WENT to their classes either.

Just an off the cuff remark that hurt her. Now these people are big, so I am sure this post does not affect them, but I personally feel there is certain amount of responsibility we all have when posting things.

It seems guilty until proven innocent seems to be the norm these days.

I did tons of research before I ever let them in my door and it al was extremely positive.

Please do not take offence to anything I am saying here Brian. It is more of a general thing I am mentioning. It is a great service to expose possible scams, but maybe really check it out first.

I had to comment on this as I had a good experience with them, and because I don't understand why sometimes people would use the "Scam" word when no one seemed to take a sec to cal or research a bit.


You should have said "curious email" maybe, or researched an never posted. My personal experience probably tainted me a bit so again, I apologize if I offended anyone in any way, and I thank you for your time.

LOL! Yes they need all the .com in the world for their show..

This comment looks suspicious. Who will fall for this junk?

 

[BrandChimp]

Interesting that this is your very FIRST POST on here. What made you decide to create a namepros account?

Trying to hard.. This is all BS

 

[Angela Acello]

Interesting that this is your very FIRST POST on here. What made you decide to create a namepros account?

You know what, you are all correct! I re-read it and my rant was not about you guys, or even this stupid production company. It was more a mother protecting her cubs. I was really pissed about that review thing from my daughter, and if I could have known who that guy was I would have kicked his balls up into his neck!

You are also correct. Why email a domain page? NO clue. Maybe he has a virus. I am not going to guess, but what I do know is that they are real.

To directly answer your questions: I said I had pictures, not video. Happy to dig them up or take new ones when they get here. Maybe I can ask them for video shorts.

I am on here because, as I thought mentioned, they are coming back and I wanted to make sure there was nothing bad out there about them since my last research was done around a year ago when they first came in. They pay afterward for the time they shoot. I saw this comment and I wanted to comment from my experience. But again, I think it was more me being pissed off from my daughter's experience.

But I scoured the net and only comments here and there like this are out there. I could not find anyone that got taken for anything. Their BBB still looks A+.

Yea, sorry again for the preaching .That really had nothing to do with this company or you guys.

I will look around for those pics for sure.

 

[Angela Acello]

haha :D !

I answered that in my last message.

 

[Angela Acello]

I explained exactly why I did it. I had my own unrelated issues, and you are right. It won't matter what i say, so I really don't care what you guys think at this point.

Your right, I am not going to look for anything as I could post DNA results with pictures of me and the camera crew with logos of the company and someone else would have something else negative to say. LOL

It will not matter what I say or post at this point. Believe what you want, but I cannot seem to find one shred of evidence myself besides that email. I just don't like being called a liar, and you would not either, but I get it now.

SO, If you see anything relating to this company where someone got scammed just post it, because I cannot find a single person that is saying they got scammed., and their 7 year old BBB has an A+ with no complaints, so if they are planning on coming in here ant not paying me then I want to know.

If there is a scam I want to know what it is.

have a great week.

 

[deez007]

*********NOT A SCAM IN ANY WAY*******

I received the email, actually called and spoke with that gentleman, and then several months later they came to my Flower shop and filmed. THERE WAS NO SCAM IN ANY WAY – They didn’t ask me to pay for anything.

They were all extremely nice and respectful of my place actually. I guess the approach is odd, but it was all real. I did find a voice message that I missed before the email came in.

They paid me, quite handsomely actually. I don't know about that site but they said they were splitting from the main company into the new film division, so maybe that was it.

I have seen other posts of other people that had them film in their place as well. I think I may have pictures.

I hate to see flippant remarks like this. I hate that word "scam" when no one does the research.

The reason I say this is due to the fact that it happened to my daughter, and if it is not true, do research or don’t post it at all as I see many people here mentioned the full info was in there.

Why didn’t you just call? If it was a scam you could have exposed it, and when you confirm it was real you simply just don’t write the post. Probably would have taken a total of 10 minutes! (lol)

That’s how long my initial call took to go over what they wanted to film in my place.


Anyway, my daughter had a chain named dance studio and someone called her a scam when they never even came to her classes, but the funny part was, they were commenting about another store and NEVER WENT to their classes either.

Just an off the cuff remark that hurt her. Now these people are big, so I am sure this post does not affect them, but I personally feel there is certain amount of responsibility we all have when posting things.

It seems guilty until proven innocent seems to be the norm these days.

I did tons of research before I ever let them in my door and it al was extremely positive.

Please do not take offence to anything I am saying here Brian. It is more of a general thing I am mentioning. It is a great service to expose possible scams, but maybe really check it out first.

I had to comment on this as I had a good experience with them, and because I don't understand why sometimes people would use the "Scam" word when no one seemed to take a sec to cal or research a bit.


You should have said "curious email" maybe, or researched an never posted. My personal experience probably tainted me a bit so again, I apologize if I offended anyone in any way, and I thank you for your time.

Can you show us the link / links with bad reviews of ur daughters dance studio?

 

[Angela Acello]

glad some got it

I got it. You watch to much porn my friend. Or not enough!

 

[Angela Acello]

why would you even waste your time coming here and making an account just to defend the company and also take the time to dig "those" photos out and maybe ask them for vids ,unless your actually with the scam ? lol i don't think anyone on here is going to believe you. i would just give up trying

YOu right. I have spent to much time already. It was a principle thing and really had nothing to do with these guys, but please please, anyone, if you find anything negative about these guys let me know.

 

[Dun]

Brian Dunn

 

[Dun]

So you're the culprit!

No comment LOL!

 

[Dun]

Someone claiming to be Brian Dunn posted a similar spam message at Wangs Chinese Restaraunt Comment page. Why would a reputable video production company post a business solicitation on a Chinese restaurant comment page? The Chinese restaurant's phone number and contact information are right there on the same page! If Brian Dunn's computer has a virus, why would the virus promote his own business?

I found this video on one of AMD films YouTube accounts, the production quality is poor. You also have to look at their YouTube channel, the videos they have are public access TV quality.

Maybe they are a legit company, but the spammy solicitations and low quality video productions make them appear untrustworthy.

Yes it's very weird in my opinion.
Thanks for the links : )

 

[smurugappan]

Efty created and is now offering a new batch of for-sale landing pages (with industry-specific images), buy-it-now (BIN) landers, and UDRP-safe landing pages.

 

[toughdomains]

so is this a scam or not? did anyone actually call to confirm?

 

[Brian Baird]

so is this a scam or not? did anyone actually call to confirm?

Go here https://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/american-media-corp-el-segundo-california-c179427.html and review the posts from this year. The operation appears scammy to me.