Originally Posted by METStaff

The whole thing sounded strange right from the start. The bait was too good to be true, and a quick conference call with our Lawyers, and a couple of collaborators promply led us to sniff something weird behind it.
The fact that we don't sell out our content anyways, helped, this thread helped too, I must say. We knew there was a scheme behind it, We just did not know the details. Thanks to this thread, we now know those too. I have to say that the guy is pretty elaborate in his plans, you have to give him that! Wanting specific models, and photos is what made it sound fishy. The compensation was out of scale too, although it was not really impressive by our standards, in the sense that it would have not changed our life, it would have excited a lot of people. It was (is) a perfect plan, on his side.