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[QUOTE=MeatMan;4202572]Guys, I may be late to the party on this question, and I need a bit of help. How legitimate is List Crawler?. I'm just jonesing around and I noticed that most of the ads are like spam from the ol days of Craigslist. Also, the numbers don't match either, (area codes like 545 848 etc) which raise my antennas. Any info would be great. Looking to maybe get in the escort game again.[/QUOTE]I agree that currently there is a large percentage of obvious spam on there. I went on vacation 2 weeks ago. It was not this way when I left but I noticed it right when I got back. 5-10 x the number of crap ads. I find the ones that have the legitimate city / town names are still generally ok but even those have some spam in there. It's a pain because now you have go through many more pages just to find a reasonable ad or 2. Almost at the point where I'm not interested in the overhead but the 'real' ones are still there. Just covered a bit and we have to work harder to find them. Sucks.
List crawler and the catagories listed to the right of the page such as Escort
Babylon can be legit if the ad says the girl is listed at working from a specific town or city and it has a legit area code like 781 or 508, but anything with a ridiculous area code like 541 is going to be a Fraudulent Ad. Especially when the girl looks too good to be true and it says she is Asian and they show you a blonde you have to wonder" Who is minding the store " ? Typically if you call the number from your burner phone (Tracphone) it will tell you "the person you are trying to reach has not set up a voice mailbox" and in a few minutes you get a text back to call a completely different number and it is redirecting you to a Chat line or something else like an advert to buy Viagra from an overseas pharmacy. There are many fake ads which a novice could buy into and that is what they are hoping for. Infact about 90 percent of the ads on there are useless. Where I can I check of the box that says "Miscategorized" and then it wants my IP address and I tell them the ad is misleading. It's like when you email back a woman who answers your CL post and she has a G mail address, that is a sure give away that she is not for real. I challenge them and ask them to" tell me the date"? If they are real and sure enough they will send back day / month, year because they are overseas.