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Is it my suspicious mind, or does the following Flickr Mail seem a little bit dodgy?

Hello

In a dutch magazine we would like to publish your photo of the ambulance in victoria. You have it verry small online, is it possible to send me a large size of the photo. We would like to publish it on 20cm wide. So we need it verry large. We can offer you a fee of 50,- euro for the photo.

You can contact me on my e-mail: X.XXXXX@gmail.com

We do need it on wednsday or thursday 29 may at the latest, so I hope you can answer me quickly.

Best regards, XXXXX XXXXXX

Seems to me that:

• there's no mention of which photo they're referring to (there is one that matches, but any search on http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ambulance/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/victoria/ would find it)
• there's no mention of which magazine it'll be published in
• the "we need it verry large" sounds a little simplistic, rather than "we need at least X pixels wide"
• there's only a generic gmail address to respond to
• there's a sudden urgency to make me respond quickly
• there's no mention of how they'll pay

Or do I just have a suspicious mind?

Looks like Schmap would like to use some of my photos for their next map about Melbourne, nothing special, but its the first time anyone has asked to use them! I guess I'll see them on http://www.schmap.com/Melbourne if they do get used.