1, Report:
#166850
Posted Date:
May 26 2022
INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIVE REPORT & COMMENTARY: Carmel Cafiero, the Jayson Blair of broadcast journalism, Independently Owned & Operated FOX 7News Station WSVN Media Whore & Lou Pearlman connection: no regard for truth. Michael Zwebner: attempted bribery & mob connections while paid DEA informant, recorded phone call NY- AZ. Miller of FederatedFinancial & hatchet man Chris McFarland use alliances in smear campaign against Ed Magedson & rip-offreport.com Miami Ft. Lauderdale Florida
The lack of ethics in broadcast journalism is likely responsible for savvy news junkies first to leave the networks and then even the cable news programs, resorting to information from networked citizen's like the information found on ripoffreport.com This reporter decided to do his...
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Categories: Media
2, Report:
#178650
Posted Date:
May 08 2014
US Talent Management, Inc. Bad Business, Ripoff, Reminiscent of larger scouting modeling scams Rochester New York
I worked for Billy Powell, president of US Talent Management, recently. The job lasted no more than three weeks once I began to see beyond the surface. Having worked for Model 411 Management in Manhattan and knowing the history behind Wilhelmina Scouting Network, Options Talent, Tra...
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Categories: Modeling Agencies
3, Report:
#361401
Posted Date:
May 08 2014
Model Management Group, NYMMG, MMG SCAM AGENCY BE CAREFUL! SCAM! Charges over $1800 for photoshoot, digital portfolio, web maintenance ALL FOR NOTHING New York
My niece recently signed with MMG - Model Management Group. They have two websites (nymmg.com and modelmanagementgroup.com). Because of her booker's flowering promises, she decided to invest in her 'career'. She recently had a photoshoot (paid for the complete package for make up ar...
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Categories: Miscellaneous Companies
4, Report:
#29439
Posted Date:
Jul 19 2012
Options Talent Part 1 Options associates with Scum Orlando Florida
BBC Documentary on Elite Models Sex & Drug Scandal
You may have heard about the one-hour documentary about fashion modeling, MacIntyre Undercover. The program has been described as the most sensational TV program of the year. Much footage was covertly filmed with an undercover...
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Categories: Modeling Agencies
5, Report:
#29434
Posted Date:
Jul 01 2012
Options Talent Part 4 Options associates with Scum Orlando Florida
MODEL AGENCY EXECUTIVES RACIST SEXUAL PREDATORS: BBC DOCUMENTARYThe world's largest modelling agency is at the centre of allegations that a number of its top executives are racist and have been caught on film expressing their dislike of black women. The scandal follows revelations t...
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Categories: Modeling Agencies
6, Report:
#791743
Posted Date:
Oct 24 2011
The It Factor Alycia Kaback Mafia Run Pyramid Scheme...Exploits Hopeful Model, Actors, and Musicians Dreams... Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The following report is confidential and only disclosed manners of exploiting corporate information and senior management, comprised affliates, and all others organizations deemed with high activity be involved.
Again, the information regarding to subject being released i...
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Categories: Questionable Activities
7, Report:
#50725
Posted Date:
May 31 2011
Kids.com Aka JustOurKids.com Main Office In Fairfield Is A BIG SCAM child modeling scam still operating despite FTC injunction Fairfeild Valley Stream New York Minnesota Illinois Pennsylvania Connecticut
Larry Bagwell, CEO of Kids.com, LLC [justourkids.com] ..avoids simple questions, no answers.
(courtesy of WCCO)
Hi, I work for the firm representing the Models who are suing Options/eModels/TC Talent, et al. The other day my boss asked me to do some internet research and I ...
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Categories: On-Line Business
8, Report:
#241708
Posted Date:
Oct 02 2010
Lou Pearlman heads bogus Orlando Trans Continental Airlines $300 million investment fraud Ponzi scheme dupes vulnerable elderly victims. Florida Governor Charlie Crist refuses to return corrupt Republican campaign contributions made with stolen money. Former AG sued for failing to act on earlier warnings of long-term fraud by Louis J. Pearlman who is on the run but has still not been charged for massive half billion dollar bank fraud securities scam. Story also involves Robert Fischetti, Mark Tolner, John MacGregor, Frank Torelli, Robert Cooper, Alec Defrawy, George LeMieux, Michael Crudele, Robert Oliver, Charlotte Oliver, Golden Security, Churchill Financial, Theodore Wullenkemper, Gregory McDonald, Richard Carl Jans, Reca Rena Chamberlain, Andreas Pohl, Fashion Rock, Talent Rock, Frank
Louis J. Pearlman
Despite the overwhelming and undisputable evidence put forward by Florida authorities that his corporate employee savings program, offered to the general public since 1991, was a massive fraud, Lou Pearlman, of Backstreet Boys fame, in an open letter to the O...
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Categories: Investment Brokers
9, Report:
#75163
Posted Date:
Dec 04 2009
Infinite Talent ripoff It's Just ANOTHER Name For Emodel. WSN What Next?!. They keep changing their names over and over. Will they EVER STOP?! A scam is A SCAM! Hillsboro Oregon
People who live in the Hillsboro Portland Area be on the look out!
Heather Duback, Rachel Skirving and Katie Ludwig is a part of this whole scam. Infinite Talent maybe able to change the name but we are here to let people know just what your company repesents.
VAMS - Wilhel...
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Categories: Modeling Agencies
10, Report:
#471564
Posted Date:
Jul 20 2009
VIP Talent - VIP Talent Connect(FMA?) - FindMyAudition.com Michael Fromkin at VIP Talent Connect in Philly, I can't believe he's out of prison!! Philly Pennsylvania
After years of working for E-model and Impact 210, I finally came back unto the scene looking for work in the entertainment industry to see if there was anything out there, worth while and profoundly legitimate.
That's when I came across VIP Talent Connect I was referred to by ...
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Categories: Modeling & Talent Agencies
11, Report:
#28548
Posted Date:
Feb 18 2009
E-Model Options Talent Group Inc Rip-off From an Executive Insider They recently merged with a company called Sector Communications that has strong connections to the Arab underworld. Top executives go by false identities using other names to avoid law enforcement Orlando Florida
I just had to take the time out of my busy schedule to file this report on e-Model/Options Talent, Inc. Speaking from the perspective of an inside executive level manager who had neither been let go or fired I will share the truth as I know it!!
I can say in confidence from pers...
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Categories: Corrupt Companies
12, Report:
#424489
Posted Date:
Feb 16 2009
FindMyAudition - VIP Talent Connect, InterFACE & TransContinental Affliates Scam NY Info Disclosed upfront fees, advancement fees, personal consultation, Tribeca New York
The following report is confidential and only disclosed in manners of exploiting corporate information and senior management, comprised affliates, and all others organizations deemed with high activity be involved. Again, the information regarding to subject being released is issued...
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Categories: Telemarketers
13, Report:
#334015
Posted Date:
May 21 2008
Options Talent Another Options Talent Victim Nationwide
I was approached by a scout for options talent back in 2002-2003. I went to a meeting and then signed up the the compnay once they took my measeurements and additional information. I was advised that this company worked with other major Modeling Agencies (i.e Ford, Elite etc.). Sin...
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Categories: Bait-and-Switch
14, Report:
#70164
Posted Date:
Mar 21 2008
Lou Pearlman's NYPD Pizza Franchise logo rip-off Shows lack of respect to NYC's finest and law enforcement, Attorney General NY names Pearlman a scam artist. Same scam artist - owner & operator of Wilhelmina, emodel, Model Search America, Options Talent, & Trans Continental Talent ripoff already scammed hundreds of thousands of consumers INTERNATIONALLY Orlando Florida
I can't believe that no one has said anything about Lou Pearlman's blatant rip-off and use of the NYPD name, logo and symbol. (By the way, I think you people at Ripoff Report need another category - Patent infringement or something like that.) I wonder what the NYPD thinks about the...
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Categories: Corrupt Companies
15, Report:
#61970
Posted Date:
Dec 14 2007
Wilhelmina Scouting, TCTalent, Options Talent eModel, ripoff deceptive company across the US, where are the State Attorney Generals, close them down! Big Consuemr ripoff and to thier employees too Houston Texas
Evidently Micheal has NO IDEA who or how big of a scam Wilhelmina is, especially the one in Houston, Texas. I have been there & done that & it's not even for me, it's for my son. I'm not trying to get sympathy & I DO know the truth & it's not just what I have read here on this site....
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Categories: Modeling Agencies
16, Report:
#46560
Posted Date:
Oct 31 2007
Trans Continental Talent & Model Scouting ripoff Scam Draws Negative International Press & Government Investigations Orlando Florida *UPDATE: TCTalent/Monster.com affiliation, BBB cover-up *UPDATE ..TCT to become WILHELMINA SCOUTING NETWORK ..early announcement yields insider trading potential *UPDATE ..TCT tells employees to file phony Rip-off Reports *UPDATE 8-18-03 ..more damning evidence!
UPDATE: August 14, 2003
The following are links to sound bites which are recordings made by Rip-off Report as a result of some clandestine relationships developed with employees, agents and representatives of Trans Continental Talent and/or Wilhelmina Scouting Network. Most of ...
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Categories: Talent Scouts
17, Report:
#41408
Posted Date:
Oct 26 2007
trans continental talent, tc talent, options talent, emodel, convicted of conspiracy to commit mail fraud orlando Florida
TEN CONVICTED IN BROKERAGE ACCOUNT SCHEME
(Dallas) U. S. Attorney Walter Gibbs announced that ten (10) individuals were convicted of conspiracy and conspiracy to launder funds following their pleas of guilty before United States District Judge Bob Vicks. Tanya Boggs (27), Ryan St...
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Categories: Modeling Agencies
18, Report:
#279784
Posted Date:
Oct 19 2007
Options Talent - Trans Continental Talent Years later still fuming New York New York
It seems i am a bit late to the dance on this, but am still just as mad after reading all of these postings.
5 years ago, i was in between jobs and answered the ad for Options Talent; having spent years in the business as a child/young teen- i was enthusiastic to bring what i kne...
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Categories: Employers
19, Report:
#74381
Posted Date:
Aug 23 2007
Michael Joel Zwebner's UNIVERSAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, INC. Securities rip-off USCY's promoter IRVING FRIEBERG Arrested & Arraigned and Wilhelmina - Trans Continental - Options Talent Connections - WSVN Miami Carmel on the Case liar Journalist for sale Miami Beach Florida
Just before Thanksgiving (how appropriate) MICHAEL JOEL ZWEBNER'S promoter IRVING FRIEBERG was arrested and arraigned on several charges (SEE CHARGE SHEET BELOW) but of particular interest is the FIRST charge; CONSPIRACY to commit Securities Fraud. In order to commit conspiracy ther...
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Categories: Corrupt Companies
20, Report:
#170779
Posted Date:
Aug 12 2007
Talent Rock - Fashion Rock ripoff billing scam unprofessionalism crossing the line Orlando Florida
I discovered Fashion Rock online and I was pretty interested when I found out that it claimed to be a talent agency. I left my contact information and was interviewed via telephone a few days later by Henry Lewis. I was encouraged to hurry and sign up for the next event; I was told ...
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Categories: Corrupt Companies
21, Report:
#251738
Posted Date:
Jun 02 2007
Talent Rock (AkA)Fashion Rock(Aka)TransContinetal (Aka)Talent Options TAlent Took $495 from my sister and I with the promise of agencies contacting me Tampa, Orlando They Keep Moving Around Florida
A Serious Warning for those who are interested in becoming a model. I was ripped of years ago by these people while the Company started off as Options Model and Talent. They are super friendly and Super Scammers. First my sister and I was in a room with thousands of other potentials...
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Categories: Con Artists
22, Report:
#23538
Posted Date:
Oct 05 2006
Options Talent= Transcontinental Talent scam, swindlers, deceptive sales, misrepresentation of models and agencies ripoff abused & mistreated Orlando Florida *EDitor's Comment
Cortes Randell Options talent top executive
Cort Randell is still in charge of ALL the money with the company, he make all the decisions and anything money related has to go through him. He is now listed as a contractor so he has limited libility.
I was scammed by Options Ta...
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Categories: Modeling Agencies
23, Report:
#213788
Posted Date:
Oct 03 2006
Lou Pearlman, Charlie Crist, Alec Defrawy, Ayman Ahmed El-Difrawi, John MacGregor, Ed Bell, Jason Hoffman, Cortes Randell, George Lemieux, ripoff corruption white-collar crime book Under Investigation by Les Henderson, Government-in-the-Sunshine Law corruption, scouting network, Florida Attorney General cover-up, Options Talent, Wilhelmina Scouting Network, Trans Continental Entertainment Group, eModel, Florida Governor modeling scams prosecutor fraud to consumers, Federal Trade Commission, WFTV ABC Bill Hoffman, Monster.com enabled 150,000+ consumers victimized - forced resignation of Jackie Dowd for exposing fraud - Consumer Advocate ED Magedson harassed with litigation & threats Orlando Florida
Extensive research into the two-year investigation of Orlando businessman Lou Pearlman's Trans Continental Entertainment Group, Inc. (a publicly-traded company with symbol TCTE) by the Florida Attorney General's Office has produced a book entitled Under Investigation (ISBN 0-9687133...
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Categories: Political Cover-ups
24, Report:
#68581
Posted Date:
Sep 04 2006
Model 411 Management Modeling Scam identical to Options Talent,Transcontinental Talent: new name, same scam, same faces in this ripoff New York New York
This company is identical in every way to the Options Talent rip off. I worked as a scout for two days, until i did research and realized the rip-off. go to these stories to read the rip off, because it's redundant for me to write about them again. it's exactly the same:
web...
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Categories: Modeling Agencies
25, Report:
#43768
Posted Date:
Jul 25 2006
Trans Continental Talent rip-off screwed others too Royal Oak Michigan
I was contacted by a member of TCT, her name was Melissa. She told me to come to Royal Oak Mi. for an Interview.
When I got there I waited in a line, filled out a form, then they took my measurments, and a couple photos.
After all that I waited in a room with about thirty ot...
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Categories: Modeling Agencies