Saturday, March 28, 2009

FRAUD ALERT:

We are posting this alert in the interest of the safety of the modeling community.

This alert pertains to the risk posed by, New Dimension Photography of Springfield OH, currently a member of Model Mayhem - MM# 1021133 (Note: thanks to the prompt cooperation from Model Mayhem his profile has not been removed).

The owner of New Dimension, Robert K. Winkle Jr. (who recently has been going by Rob Kenneth) is the subject of a ongoing copyright investigation regarding several images owned by Jaze Companies that he has stolen and has been using without permission on a variety of websites.

Through our investigation we have learned that Robert Kenneth Winkle Jr. goes by the name Rob Kenneth among the modeling community because he is a registered sex offender. Having been charged with "Use of Minors in nude-oriented material or performance".

Mr. Winkle has engaged in numerous activities including copyright infringement, impersonating an individual and fraud in an effort to grain credibility among models and industry professionals. Combined with his registration in eSORN we have reason to believe he poses a legitimate threat to the modeling community.

We have reason to believe that Mr. Winkle has established false profiles on MySpace and Model Mayhem linked to the email address ashharvardlaw@yahoo.com in an effort to mislead models who ask for referrals. If you have corresponded with this email address be advised that you may be corresponding with Mr. Winkle and not with a model he's worked with.

We urge you to remove any association you may with New Dimensions or New Dimension Photography located in Springfield OH as Mr. Winkle clearly has no regard for professional courtesy or the law.

Jaze Companies has filed several take down notices with sites where Mr. Winkle has chosen to violate the law including MySpace.

If you have been contacted by Rob Kenneth or New Dimension Photography in Springfield OH we urge you, for your safety, not to work with this individual.

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