Don't fall for their trickery.
With the recent meteoric rise of Twilight Saga: New Moon, everyone wants to be a part of the upcoming sequels, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn. Unfortunately, there are plenty of not-so-nice people looking to take advantage of all these fans. In one series of emails sent out, scammers are trying to trick folks into signing up for fake casting calls.
Laura Veenker, who handled the Northwest casting for the first Twilight film, knew right away that the emails were fraudulent.
"First of all, I knew it wasn't credible because Breaking Dawn doesn’t go into production for several months, so no casting director would have been hired yet," she says. "Also, the shoot location hasn’t even been announced! How would anyone even know which city or country to be casting in?"
In the email, scammers play up to fans' love of the series and attempt to get them to enter in information about themselves. Here's a portion of the letter:
"I wanted to follow up and make sure that you registered for the Twilight 'Breaking Dawn' Casting. If you have not applied for the casting yet please do so ASAP, as the deadline is approaching and I want to make sure you are included in the casting process."
According to Veenker, you'll know when there are legitimate casting calls because they'll be all over the news. In the meantime, make sure not to fall for the fakers.
"I get thousands of letters and emails from 'Twilight' fans who would do just about anything for a walk-on part in one of the sequels, " Veenker said. "It scares me to think of what the low-lifes out there could do to hurt such easy targets."
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