Increasing Backpage ads and scams
I was browsing the escort ads on backpage and found more than half are suspect ads or scams. In checking several review sites, guys are getting ripped off often enough to make it worth their doing. Most will send you an email wanting you to verify your identity or supposedly proving your age or that you're safe to see by entering your credit card to some verification site. These are frauds 99% of the time. Overwhelmingly the new ads are outcall only. Few responsible providers will go to private residences. If a provider will do outcalls to a private residence, they will be widely reviewed of doing so. Since CL censored their site, many of the scams have moved to backbage. If they didn't get some guys to bite, they wouldn't be posting the ads. If you don't give them a return on their investment they'll go away. Please be smart.
Suggestion for weeding out Clist chaff
Hola..
Like many of you, I'm HATING the addition of the Clist scam ads now on BP. The last few days of trying to go through them has actually given me migraines. Ugh. Anyway... here's a suggestion for everyone. On ads that you KNOW are scams, like those 'no charge massage' ones, or the ones that use 4 tineye pics, offer outcall only, and have a bogus #, flag/report them! If enough people report the suckers, they'll be removed. If it's done fast enough to where the scammers see loss in scam intakes, they'll hopefully move on. I've been flagging for 2 days now, and I've seen some small results on a few. That makes me think that some others out there are doing the same, since my few flags shouldn't be enough on their own. It'll take a lot more people, and some due diligence to make a dent though. Anyone wanna take up the banner?
Anyway, just a suggestion.. and now as for me, I'm off to go ice my noggin.
Jay
[QUOTE=Brummdog]Yeah with see list going down all the crap from that page has now drowned the real adds on back page. It really blows[/QUOTE]
She's baaaack! Upsell extravaganza!
[QUOTE=Lookee]Hey friends,
Lookee here. Well my roll of picking winners has screeched to a halt, and had to TOFTT Friday night. I, of course, feel obligated to report my findings, LOL. I do understand YMMV. Friday evening brought a couple of visitors to BP, one that caught my eye. Sorry for not linking, but don't know how, LOL. One has removed ad by now, anyway. Went by name Kylie, went by Leslie a few days back in NY/NJ. Friend goes by Kellie, has used Katie and a few others. Kylie has a 775 area code, Kellie 619. They are travelling together, sharing an incall for now, I was told. After the fact, came across two horrendous reviews for Kellie, none for Kylie. The issue, or should I say one of the issues with both, is upselling, or tipping, as one of the reviewers was told. Kylie is absolutely dead-on her photos, and is beautiful, so if you don't mind the upsell, my guess is you would be pleased. The upsell is a big negative to me. I'm not sure Kylie understood this, since she offered to let me go to the ATM, and even wanted me to return tomorrow, LOL. As hot as she looked, and sounded, probably would have strongly considered a higher donation for what was wanted, and all would've been happy. She was quite the clock watcher as well, since she was worried about Kellie sitting in the car for an hour. I'm sure she was fine, as I spotted her with their handler on my way out, and he would certainly keep her safe. Kylie did explain that the upselling is what she is used to, so maybe it's accepted in other places, but doubt it based on her partner's reviews in Chicago. They do seem to move on rather quickly, wherever they go. But if they are here for a while, and you were thinking about a visit, best of luck. And do be ready to show ID, as it will be checked to make sure it matches name you give.
Lookee[/QUOTE]
Hey fellers!
Lookee here. I had to dig a little to find this report from July. Brings back my TOFTT, ouch! Sorry for the space taken here, but thought I should include entire prior post. Anyway, of multiple names used last visit, Callie was not one of them. The nerve of this b****. Coming back to town and going by the name Callie. Maybe the loser researched names of providers in the area that provide great service and picked a name based on that, who knows? I would've been plenty happy had she never returned to jack dudes around in our town, but apparently she is based in Cali or Vegas, and returns to visit her son that her mother cares for. If you recall ads from prior visits, hair a bit different these days, but number being used is one of numbers she was using then, 760-***-3427.
Lookee
Stormy, relocated to hotel, same great service!
Hiya,
Stormy had her recent move and has had a few phone issues to address, but wanted me to spread the word that she should be back on her normal schedule as of tomorrow and with extended hours again too. She'd luv to hear from all her friends and make some new ones too. Here's her latest ad link for those needing it:
[url]http://cincinnati.backpage.com/BodyRubs/stormys-golden-massage-friday-funday-special/5837838[/url]
Enjoy!
Jay
Just tryin' to pay it back, Wingman!
[QUOTE=Wingman Todd]Lookee,
My man, you should have known better back then!! Now back in July, you were a nubie and having a time hooking up with you-know-who! But your intel is very good now! I appeciate you reseach!
As always, stay safe and feel free to pm me!
WM[/QUOTE]
Hey WMT and yous,
Lookee here. Just a rare occasion where I might have something that might help someone avoid wasting their time and dough, unless they are cool with this type of provider. This forum has certainly helped me steer clear of potential mistakes. By the way, I neglected to mention that the same travel partner is with "Callie"(not to be confused with our beloved local Callie) this time around, too. For the record, to this point that one has posted twice on BP, using a new name for each ad, "Jen" and "Kayla". These girls go through more new names than, well, you know, lol. I won't bother to add a new post whenever they change their name(s) or number(s), I would just advise to familiarize yourself with their running ad and know to avoid them. One clue to ads, until they change this too, is that ads seem to always mention Tri-county incall, which narrows things down quite a bit.
Lookee
Well, at least they picked a pretty girl to scam with
Now, this is just lazy.
[url]http://cincinnati.backpage.com/FemaleEscorts/beautiful-and-intelligent/5792130[/url]
They didn't even crop out the Russian website name.
7 hits on tineye.
Pity, she's hot.
How to spot a fake escort ad
[QUOTE=Jry Wild1]Someone else may beat me to posting this, but I thought this ad was QUITE interesting.
How to spot a fake Escort Ad. Real deal here
[url]http://cincinnati.backpage.com/FemaleEscorts/how-to-spot-a-fake-escort-ad-real-deal-here-150hr-or-100hh-29/5841402[/url]
It was posted by Sidney Merlot, whom I have never seen and am not connected with. I'm not advertising for her. I just thought it very interesting that she would post such a candid guide to helping weed out the fakes. It is obviously in her interest to do so (with the closing of CL as she notes), plus it lets her advertise herself. Much of her advice and comments are almost identical to advice we give the noobs (and even the experienced members) here.
Just thought I'd point this out. And, it's not like we didn't know that [b][i]at least[/i][/b] half the ads on BP now are fakes! LOL.
Be safe, be well
JR[/QUOTE]
Sidney Merlot's advice about using TinEye.com is very good, but Tin Eye comes up blank more often than it comes up with the same pic found elsewhere simply because there are so many pics on the internet in relation to Tin Eye's inventory. Still it should be used on every pic.
Our best resource is still a google of the girl's email addy and phone that can lead us to other ads and profiles with maybe different pics, maybe different email addys and different phones. We must google these new finds also, the idea being to identify everything out there on her. We might even land on a review site containing her reviews. This is so important that we should not consider any ad or pic without an associated email or phone because we won't have anything to google.
Google remains the main tool supplemented by Tin Eye when it has something for us.