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Coincidentally with my previous post, another wedding photographer Ponzi scheme goes down? - pRICE cUBE - 03-27-2023
Am I mistaken that new money was replacing old money?
https://petapixel.com/2023/03/27/wedding-photographer-charged-with-theft-for-withholding-payments/
A wedding photographer, who is accused of withholding payments to other photographers and not delivering images to couples, has been charged with theft.
KDVR reports that Suzanne Nevill of Suzanne Nevill Photography was charged with theft in Colorado on March 22.
The charges come after an investigation into Colorado-based photographer Nevill following complaints by her clients and other photographers dating back to 2021. Nevill’s first court appearance will be on April 17.
According to KDVR, Nevill was accused of booking weddings as a photographer. But then shortly before the big day, Nevill would allegedly back out of the job with dramatic excuses and make a last-minute plea for other wedding photographers to fill in for her.
Other photographers and associates would feel sorry for Nevill. They would step up to help her and shoot the wedding day for her clients in her place. However, they claim that they never received their payments from Nevill.
According to a report by CBS News in October 2021, dozens of brides and an estimated 40 associates claim Nevill scammed them out of tens of thousands of dollars.
“So I started an associate program — where I would hire photographers to shoot for me. It was great at first, when I only had one but the same thing happened, I kept booking more and more and needed more and more people.
“I slowly started getting more behind. I didn’t know what I was doing. I thought the more I booked, the more money I’ll be in and eventually I will dig myself out of this. But it just kept getting worse and worse.”
Re: Coincidentally with my previous post, another wedding photographer Ponzi scheme goes down? - chopper - 03-28-2023
We need a photo of her.
Re: Coincidentally with my previous post, another wedding photographer Ponzi scheme goes down? - JoeH - 03-28-2023
pRICE cUBE wrote:
Am I mistaken that new money was replacing old money?
The way I am reading it, she wasn't even managing the new money replacing old part. Just accepting payments and not passing on any of them to the photographers who did the actual photoshoots.
Re: Coincidentally with my previous post, another wedding photographer Ponzi scheme goes down? - pRICE cUBE - 03-28-2023
JoeH wrote:
[quote=pRICE cUBE]
Am I mistaken that new money was replacing old money?
The way I am reading it, she wasn't even managing the new money replacing old part. Just accepting payments and not passing on any of them to the photographers who did the actual photoshoots.
It seems like she tried to keep the scam going with photographers until she ran out of people she owned money to? Yes, there are a lot of photographers these days but not as many with the confidence to take on a wedding. You have to either be confident or fake confidence. She may have ran out of photographers because word got out that she wasn’t paying? It’s so crazy.