"Boulevard of Photographers" and "thephotochallenge.com" repeated scam.
This site claims to offer a contest for professional and amateur photographers to submit their works for a chance at winning a cash prize and being published in a "Best of 2012 Anthology" book. After submitting work (s) and your e-mail, you receive an e-mail to confirm your e-mail address and eventually a direct e-mail claiming that your submission has been chosen to be published in this 'anthology' book.
Among the various options in the form of links within the e-mail is a link to the page in which you can choose to purchase a copy of this book, a biography (?) and a plaque. It looks like a typical payment page with all of the usual fields but NO guarantees, no official documentation or signs that it is true.
I decided to search around to see anyways after fully making up my mind that it was not legitimate. To my assurance, it is in fact a scam attempting to abuse your credit card information as well as steal your money WITHOUT supplying any sort of book or other orders.
This is a real scam and originally went by another website name but was shut down due to this very reason, that it was identified as a scam, and is now under this new url (and probably a few others). PLEASE for your own safety do not supply ANY information to this site or any linked to it and do not provide any personal/original works to this site for its claims are false and your works will be stolen and abused.
*Please let others know about this scam and report it.
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