Scam or not?

I'm a member in modelmeyhem and after a while I get a e-mail of this Joe Dwayne :

[email protected]
head title:
MODEL JOB OFFER

Hello, My name is Dwayne, I emailed you as regards your post i saw on (Modeling Page).I work with MARK&SPENCER CLOTHING LINE....I was really thrilled when i saw those wonderful shoots of yours,I quite appreciate your looks and would like to work with you on a small contract.We have a $2000 pay modeling job (Assignment) for you to take picture with some
of our client Fashion Outfit, Our client wants to update there Catalog with our new year release Fashion outfits and We are interested in you for the shooting, We are model and photographer agent by profession
And we are new in the society, we are located in Ãkersberga, Stockholm, Sweden. and i should have giving you our new website but its still under construction for now and i promise as soon as it is done i will let you know.Find all details for the job below...

JOB LOCATION:
The shooting will hold at a rented photographer's studio in model location, so you don't have to worry about traveling, the name and address of the studio will be forwarded to you before the date of the shooting, all make up will be taken cared of in the studio. You can come along with any body of
your choice on the day of the shooting just for you to feel more comfortable.But not more than four people invite by the model that we will take care of.

JOB DETAILS:
You have a lot of different Fashion outfits to cover,
which would be provided by our client on the day of the shooting.

TIME DURATION: This will take up to Two days The total money pay for the
jobs is $2000 and you get $500 as your advance payment and balance of
$1500 will be paid after the complication of the project.

EXPECTATIONS: Please get in touch with us if you will take the job and we can go from there, just let me know if you will take the job and I will give you extra details. Make sure you get back to me ASAP.And if
interested you will have to give us your details to contact you with
your payment via check and for further info.

INFO NEEDED
1.Your full name:......
2..Contact address,.......
3.City,....
4 State
5.Zip Code .......
5..Home contact telephone number or Cellphone number...
6.Your age.


REGARDS
DWAYNE JOE


I haven't answered him yet 'cuase my boyfriend get one TOO similer two weeks ago. Is this a scam?

Your instinct is right. It is a scam. The writing tells me that the person who sent this "offer" is African, not Swedish.

This will most likely turn into a fake check scam. The scammer wants to send you a check for advance payment, but the check will be for too much, and they will need you to cash the check and forward part of the money to someone by Western Union, or the "shoot" will be canceled, and they will want you to refund the money, minus a fee for your trouble. The problem is, the check will be fake, but a good enough fake that the bank will give you the cash. (A check is not "cleared" when the bank gives you the cash--by law they have to give you the cash at a certain time if they haven't proven it is a fake, but they still have the right to take it back if it is later found to be one.) Weeks later, when the bank discovers the fake, long after you have sent the money, they will come after you for the total amount, plus fees, and they can even press criminal charges for check fraud!

And, just for confirmation, you can see that an almost identical version of this has been making the rounds for some time.

http://stampedscams.blogspot.com/2010/06/scam-model-job-offerteenvogue-magazin.html

Okey, thanks!