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In October 2019, I received a website estimate request that is a scam. I'm sharing the info here to help other web or graphic designers. Here is the content of the email that I received: Presnad donald Broadway enterprises Presnaddonaldlee@outlook.com 515-674-2890 Presnaddonaldlee@outlook.com says i have small scale business which i want to turn into large scale business now it located in NV and the company is based on importing and exporting of Office Equipment such as Printer , Scanners,Laminating Machines,Dictation,Computer,Adequate Light,Desk,Multipurpose Machine,Software,Fire-Safe Bix,Network Router,Telephone,Paper Shredder and Personal Server so i need a best of the best layout design for it. Can you handle that for me ?. so i need you to check out this site but i need something more perfect than this if its possible .https://avada.theme-fusion.com/classic-shop/... I have a graphic content creator that has the text content and logo for the site . the site would only be informational, so i need you to give me an estimate. 1. I want 12pages with 14 products 2. I want only English language 3. I don't have a domain yet but i want the domain name as Pdonaldlee.productive.org 4. you will be updating the site for me. 5. i will be proving the images, logos and content for the site. 6. i want the site up and running before ending of next 6 months. 7. My budget is $8,000 to $12,000 8. give me your personal cell phone number 9. Are you the Owner Several things about his request seemed good. And other things about the request seemed off. The unusual questions about giving my personal cell phone number, and if I was the owner of the company were red flags. I looked up his business name, email address, personal name, phone number etc. online but I didn't see any results. I had a little bit of extra time that week, so I decided to send an estimate just in case it was legit. Here is what Mr. Lee emailed back... Thanks for your response, i am okay with the estimate and i wanna proceed so i will pay $1000 down payment for the job using my credit card so work can commence ASAP i understand the content for this site would be needed so as for the job to commence so regarding the content and i will need a little favor from you and the reason why i need this favor from you is because the content creator that has the content and logo for the website does not have the facility to charge credit cards and i also Am presently in the hospital with my son for surgery so i will be glad if you can help me out with this favor. After his response, I noted that the client didn't answer my questions on options on his website, nor did the client schedule a time for a phone call. So, I decided to pause communication. A week later I had a chance to catch up on graphic arts reading, and I came across an AIGA email newsletter article that had more details and other variations of this scam. The article helped me to compare notes and determine what this scammer was attempting to do. (Also thank you to the other web designers and creatives who have put info they received regarding this scam on their blogs) It seems that Mr. Lee was planning to give me his credit card number (or stolen credit card number), and then would ask me to send some money to his consultant who was also doing work for him, that wasn't able to take credit cards. Basically the scam involves...the client paying me with a stolen credit card number, or disputing the purchase on a legit card, which would leave me financially liable for a chargeback or payment dispute. I just wanted to pass this along in case this helps any fellow creatives!

It means that low-resolution artwork, or placeholder content are shown on the layout for the purpose of showing size and positioning only. The artwork, photos or barcode would be replaced with full-resolution or high-resolution images before the layout is sent to the printing company for printing. The images could also be labeled as low-resolution, typically less than 200 pixels-per-inch.

This is a funny business meeting comedy sketch illustrating what it is like to be an engineer (or graphic designer) in a project meeting.