I received this email in my inbox, BUT I have dealt with this person before!
They tried to get their CHILD NUDE PICTURES and PROMOTION on Model Mode until I put him/her in their place! You will be well informed to read this especially if you have children or teen models.
PLEASE read this email in its entirety.
This email was sent to the 485+ individuals that have been in recent contact with an online
child predator who goes by the name of "Rachelle Erickson".
Some of you are parents, photographers, children, and webmsters.
This man has been under investigation by several agencies across the country for being an
online child predator, soliciting nude images of minor nude children, online harassment etc...
Do a search on Google.com for "rachelle erickson", you will see hundreds of warnings
about this child predator.
Some more info is here: https://www.onlineranks.com/rachelle.html
In the past, He has pretended:
To be a 7 year asian girl old who designs her own websites with child nudity.
A mother who loves to enter her child in "pre-teen nude pageants"
A story wrihter whos topis focus on UFO's and/or ghosts abducting nude children.
A girl, who plays tennis, but likes to flip her skirt up.
On many teen guest books, he has signed as though her is a child.
And more...
Here is his M.O.
-As of late... he typically, he contacts potential child models and photographers to shoot the
nude images for him, and acts as a go-between for the two. - Prior to this he was stating he
was a photographer.
-Lately he has been using ploys of creating a non-existent tutorial video, or lies and say's
Ivory Soap wants picture of nude children.... which is not true.
in this tutorial scam he claims to be from photoreactive.com , but Photoreactive clearly
warns people of his fraudulent claims here: https://www.photoreactive.com/~psa/psa.html
If you're a parent or child- he might use either the above tutorial video scam or an Ivory
soap SCAM, his ad reads the same as it does on their website, with one difference.... he
revised it to say they want "NUDE" photos. https://www.ivory.com/baby.htm
If you were one of the people that received the Ivory email, you may wish to contact Ivory,
they may be interested in filing civil and criminal charges against him.
Stage -1: contacts the model or photographer via email or message forum, under the guise
that he is a photographer, a scout, or an agent, etc..
Stage -2: explains the type of shoot, but usually leave out that it includes nudity. May use a
company name like Photoreactive or Ivory Soap and make it sound as though he is
affiliated with them to gain trust, but he is not affiliated with them.
Stage -3: introduces that topless and nude photos are required.
Stage -4: if you reply that you are not interested in having your minor child pose nude, or
that you refuse to photograph nude children, he will cite examples of "Brooke Sheilds" and
others that posed nude. He will also tell you that posing nude will skyrocket your child's
career or your photography business. He will tell you that nude photography is an essential
part of your portfolio.
-(BTW... if you walked into any reputable agency with nude photos of your child, you
would most likely have security escort you out-this will ruin your child's carreer... just email
agencies like ford, Wilhemina, faces, etc and ask them!).
Stage -5: if you insist that you are still not interested and tell him it is inappropriate, you will
be sent a barrage of abusive, threatening, vulgar emails (or messages on a forum), stating
that you are a pedophile.
Stage -6: if you fell for his game, he will try to solicit nude images of children from you.
Many parents are eager to do whatever it takes to make their kids succeed.... But you
need to use common sense, don't be naive.
-Always get references - and CHECK THEM- (i.e.: Rachelle used Photoreactive.com as
someone he is affiliated with)
He has used numerous child models and photographers names that he has seen on sites like
Webtalent.com, but upon contacting them, you will find that the references are false.
Prior to setting up a shoot, these are Major Red flag's:
If somone is claiming to be an agent or photographer and:
-Is not willing to give you their phone number (an actual land-line number, not a cell#)
-Is not willing to give you their studio/office address (giving someone elses address as
"Rachelle" does, does not count!)
-Not being upfront in the beginning about what the shoot entails... (i.e.: nudity)
***One thing I could not get over is that over half of you gave him your home phone
number and address... but no one knows his!
A number of you are under 18 and he has asked your personal info, and you have given it.
This is illegal; it falls under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. You should make
your parents aware of this, and they can file criminal and civil lawsuits against him.
If he has harassed or threatened any of you: his ISP is inreach.com, forward the harrassing
email to abuse@inreach.com
If you have been sent "pornographic images" of children or he has requested them of you,
please contact your local FBI and his ISP immediately!!
If you see a post on a forum from him, please warn others. Also if he emails you with other
email addresses listed in the email, please warn them as well.
Thank you.
In a follow up to this...
Seems that a web site has been created with a picture of the person behind this fraud.
Go to: https://rachelles.verydirtylaundry.com