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[QUOTE=Bammbamm]Staying out toward Westford, anything to be had out that way?
Seems like a dead area.
You can see my reports on the Chicago boards.
Bamm[/QUOTE]Lowell is not too far from Westford.
Just a short trip down 495 north to the Lowell connector.
Just a heads up on the action around portland Me.The local news did a 6-pm spot on Portland's local sex walkers.LE and the neighbors are pissed off with what up in the area.Just be careful if you go north.
B.B...
Seems like things are changing all over the area nowadays.The CL gals from 19-23 as of late today are trying to sell what they have for less money.I see many on the boards offering "CAR DATES" seems the money crunch is pushing more and more ladies to backseat action.
Also beware this is a known trick for a cash and dash.Keep the larger wad of cash under the seat,don't fall victim to the scamms.
B.B.
I'd appreciate it if anyone can point me in th right direction here.
I have an excuse to buy a GSM World Phone and I'm looking for a recommendation for SIM card vendors. Obviously, I want to be annonymous. Can anyone tell me how this works? I frequently travel the Pike Boston to Worcester .. .anywhere I can pick up a SIM annonymously? Also will need to recharge the same way.
PM with any info
Thanks in Advance
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It looks like the erotic section of Craigslist is about to take a major hit. One thing that seems strange to me is that the recent crackdowns have been going after the least "visible" forms of prostitution to the non involved: Amps, Craigslist, escort sites, etc. If you don't want to see a Craigslist woman all that's required is to not click on the "erotic" link, don't ring the door at an Amp if you don't want a table shower, don't call the number of an escort on her personal site if you don't want a session.
Despite sporadic crackdowns I don't see the SWs going away on any permanent basis, and that is the form that is most noticeable and has the highest potential to irritate outsiders.
Anyway, enough time on the soapbox and here is the news report.
[quote]November 7, 2008
Craigslist Agrees to Curb Sex Ads
By BRAD STONE
SAN FRANCISCO — The online classifieds company Craigslist said Thursday that it had reached an agreement with 40 state attorneys general and agreed to tame its notoriously unruly “erotic services” listings.
Prostitutes and sex-oriented businesses have long used that section of Craigslist to advertise their services. Along with their ads, they often include pornographic photos.
Early this year, the attorney general of Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal, representing 40 states, sent a letter to Craigslist demanding that it purge the site of such material and better enforce its own rules against illegal activity, including prostitution. The two sides began a series of conversations about what Craigslist could do to prevent such ads from appearing.
“They identified ads that were crossing the line,” said Jim Buckmaster, chief executive of Craigslist. “We looked at those ads, we saw their point, and we resolved to see what we could do to get that stuff off the site.”
In March, Craigslist created a hurdle for anyone trying to place certain ads. The company began asking its erotic services advertisers to provide a phone number, which an automated system calls. The system reads a series of digits, which the advertiser has to type into a Web page as verification before the ad will appear on the site. Craigslist said that reduced a majority of the illicit material.
Under the broader agreement announced Thursday, Craigslist is going further, asking that advertisers provide valid identification. It said that it will charge erotic services vendors a small fee for each ad — about $10, Mr. Buckmaster said — and require that they use a credit card for the payment. It will donate the money to charities that combat child exploitation and human trafficking. This, theoretically, will let the company confirm not just a phone number but also an identity.
On Wednesday, Craigslist also filed 14 lawsuits in San Francisco against companies that were helping advertisers circumvent the telephone verification system by generating Internet telephone numbers that could be used temporarily and then discarded.
Mr. Blumenthal said the new measures would discourage many sex operators from using Craigslist. “The mere act of authentication will be a very significant deterrent,” he said. “There are very few prostitutes who want to be called by Craigslist and asked to give additional identifying information.”
Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company[/quote]
I heard there are going to be changes on CL. In an attempt to curb prostitutes advertising on CL anyone posting in the erotic section will now have to provide a valid credit card, phone #, and IIRC address. Granted many may move to the therapeutic section, but I have a feeling that loophole will be closed. 40 states have signed onto this, but mass has not yet. I am not sure if the rule will be a site wide change, but I would have to think it will be.
I see this as good news since now. 3 SW's will not be on CL quoting 1. 5 for a HH. I am also hoping more will now be out on the street where we can window shop a bit, and hopefully see a better selection than we have recently. They will also most likely migrate to the party lines.
[QUOTE=Funtolook]I heard there are going to be changes on CL. In an attempt to curb prostitutes advertising on CL anyone posting in the erotic section will now have to provide a valid credit card, phone #, and IIRC address. Granted many may move to the therapeutic section, but I have a feeling that loophole will be closed. 40 states have signed onto this, but mass has not yet. I am not sure if the rule will be a site wide change, but I would have to think it will be.
I see this as good news since now. 3 SW's will not be on CL quoting 1. 5 for a HH. I am also hoping more will now be out on the street where we can window shop a bit, and hopefully see a better selection than we have recently. They will also most likely migrate to the party lines.[/QUOTE]I also find this good news for curbside pick ups.The only question is will it push all the scam gals street side also??
If in fact all the overcharging hags do return to the streets,LE can send them away and I am sure this will be fast and swift.
Better days ahead,and also,most real gals on the CL site have a clientele built up already if they are good providers.I am sure this will push out the shitpots first.
B.B.
Here is the Q & A from the "new" craigslist.
about > erotic services FAQ
Joint Statement with Attorneys General and NCMEC Detailing Measures to Prevent Illegal Activity and Improve Safety
Q: Why does craigslist have an "erotic services" category?
A: It was established at the request of craigslist users, who were tired of seeing ads for escort services, sensual massage, adult web cams, phone sex, erotic dancing, adult websites, nude housecleaning, etc mixed into the regular personals and services categories.
Q: Are "erotic services" ads unique to craigslist, or are they common to most classified services?
A: Newspaper classifieds, alternative weeklies, and the telephone yellow pages have featured escort and sensual massage ads similar to those on craigslist for several decades, with 2 significant differences:
craigslist donates 100% of net revenue from "erotic services" ads to charity, while newspapers and yellow pages make a profitable business out of them.
craigslist enables its users to flag inappropriate ads for removal, whereas inappropriate print ads cannot be removed.
Q: What measures has craigslist taken to minimize the misuse of the site for illegal activities?
A: Here are some of the measures we take, many of which are absent from newspaper classifieds and telephone yellow pages:
We ban all illegal activity in our Terms of Use
We place prominent notices on our posting forms warning against illegal activity
We perform telephone verification on user accounts as a requirement for posting in "erotic services"
We block ads containing language that in our experience has a high likelihood of violating our Terms of Use
We remove inappropriate ads that come to our attention
We block persons violating our Terms of Use from posting
We provide a community moderation system whereby our users flag inappropriate ads for removal
We place prominent notices asking users to flag inappropriate ads
In U.S. cities we require credit card authorization to post in "erotic services", and charge a fee for each ad, with 100% of net revenues donated to charity.
We label adult content using the PICS rating sytem, which supports most content control software programs
We prohibit the use of adult-only categories by persons under the age of 18
We participate in the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) Cybertipline program
We collaborate on user awareness campaigns regarding human trafficking and child exploitation
We place notices encouraging users to report any suspected abuse of minors
We maintain a resource page to assist users in reporting suspected abuse of minors
We maintain information pages regarding personal safety on craigslist
We adapt our web site to aid the work of agencies working on human trafficking and exploitation issues
We respond promptly to inquiries and requests for assistance from law enforcement officer
Q: What else could craigslist do to prevent misuse of the website for inappropriate or illegal purposes?
A: We are always looking for additional ways to prevent misuse of craigslist for inappropriate or illegal purposes, please submit any suggestions you may have in our feedback forum or email them to [email]suggestions@craigslist.org[/email].
Q: Why don't craigslist staff manually review each and every free posting submitted by users?
A: Craigslist is a community-moderated site, and while it is not possible for a centralized staff of any size to effectively review each of the more than 30 million free postings submitted per month, craigslist does take measures including those listed above to prevent misuse of the site, and tens of millions of craigslist users are empowered to remove problematic postings themselves through our flagging system. Compare this to newspapers classifieds and yellow pages where once distributed, problematic ads cannot be removed.
Q: How does craigslist feel about the "erotic services" category from a moral perspective?
A: Illegal activity is not welcome, but where legal conduct between consenting adults is concerned we feel it is important to err on the side of respecting free speech and privacy rights, and to leave moral judgements to the greater wisdom of the craigslist community, who are empowered through our flagging system.
Q: What is craigslist doing to combat human trafficking and child exploitation?
A:We adapt our web site to help NCMEC and other agencies find and rescue the victims of these terrible crimes and get the traffickers behind bars. We also participate in exploitation reporting programs, and collaborate on raising awareness about human trafficking and child exploitation.
Q: Does craigslist cooperate with law enforcement investigations?
A: Absolutely. We've gotten a lot of positive feedback from law enforcement and DA offices over the years for being especially prompt and cooperative in responding to their inquiries - we do not want illegal activities on craigslist, and are more than willing to assist law enforcement in their efforts.
Q: Why doesn't craigslist just shut down Erotic Services, to prevent advertising by escorts and massage providers?
A: Like the yellow pages, newspapers, and virtually every other classified service, we provide a separate category for legal erotic services to advertise. Unlike virtually every other classified service, craigslist does not profit from such ads. Most craigslist users prefer having such ads in a separate category behind warning screens, rather than having them posted throughout the personals and services categories. For those who believe such ads should be banned by law, experts tell us that is a constitutional question which could be addressed by seeking an amendment to restrict free speech.
Q: Children aren't physically prevented from accessing craigslist, doesn't that mean all adult content should be eliminated?
A: Craigslist is not designed for use by children, and in fact is not intended for use by persons under age 18. Even so, we do place warning screens in front of categories where adult content is likely to be found, and label adult content using the PICS rating system - unlike newspapers classifieds and telephone yellow pages, which lack these protection for their "erotic service" content, even though these publications are intended for all ages.
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From boston.com
[quote]BOSTON
Officers arrested a woman Saturday night and charged her with prostitution linked to the website Craigslist, police spokesman **** ******** said. ***** ***, 20, told police that she flew in from her native San Francisco to meet with several clients whom she had met online over the popular Internet message board, he said. *** initially reported that two men forced their way into her hotel room about 6 p.m. at the Sheraton Hotel on Dalton Street and that they robbed her of cash and a laptop at gunpoint. Police searched the area for the suspects, ******** said. *** was arrested and charged with prostitution, while police are investigating the incident, ******** said.[/quote]
When I read this on a national, general discussion board I thought, 'There are a lot of Chelseas, but I bet that's our Chelsea'. I found it on the Boston Globe site = it is!
Chelsea court official allegedly had sex in courtroom
February 27, 2009 By Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff
An assistant clerk at the Chelsea District Court was arrested by the FBI this morning on charges that he had sex with an accused prostitute in an empty courtroom while promising to help get a charge against her dismissed.
James "Jim" Burke, 41, of Chelsea, made a brief appearance this morning before US Magistrate Judge Timothy S. Hillman, who released him on $10,000 unsecured bond and ordered him to return to federal court March 26 for a probable cause hearing.
"It's a perversion of the legal system and a gross abuse of power,'' said Assistant US Attorney Brian T. Kelly, head of the US attorney's public corruption unit.
The accused prostitute was in the Chelsea court with her lawyer in December trying to get prostitution charges dismissed when she saw Burke and confided to her lawyer that Burke had approached her when she was in the lockup at the courthouse on similar charges in February 2005 and offered to get her case dismissed if she provided sex, according to an FBI affidavit filed in federal court.
The woman said Burke took her into a courtroom, where she performed oral sex on him.
After her lawyer alerted the FBI, the woman began cooperating with agents and secretly recorded conversations with Burke, who allegedly acknowledged their earlier sexual encounter and offered to help her get the new charges dismissed if she helped him again, the affidavit says.
During a call that was secretly recorded by the FBI on Dec. 8, Burke said they were able to have sex in the courtroom three years earlier "because it was late in the day and the only judge left was not going to go downstairs,'' the affidavit said.
Burke asked the woman if she thought it was "hot" that they had sex in a courtroom and told her, "It's good because it's like it's so bad,'' the affidavit said.
Burke also said that there was another room in the courthouse where he had been with someone else, "just hookin' up,'' but he was upset because that person later told someone about the encounter.
During a secretly recorded meeting at the court on Dec. 18, Burke, who claimed to have spoken to the district attorney's office, told the woman that she was "all set'' and had gotten off too easy. He suggested they "do it right now,'' but the woman declined.
Until they were deleted, the comments section had several postings extolling this site as a far superior place to visit for information.
March 4, 2009, 8:05 pm
Prostitution Site Cuts Ties With Founder After Charges
By Matt Richtel
In part because of David Elms, the business of prostitution is moving from street corners and hotel bars to the Internet. Mr. Elms founded The Erotic Review, a Web site where patrons of prostitutes go to rate their experiences. It’s a bit like Amazon ratings for prostitutes, except of course that paying for books isn’t illegal in most jurisdictions.
But now The Erotic Review says it has severed its ties with Mr. Elms.
Through its lawyer, the company issued a statement saying that it had “parted ways” with Mr. Elms because of his arrest in Phoenix last month and the charge he faces for conspiracy to commit aggravated assault.
Mr. Elms was also charged with conspiracy to possess drugs, conspiracy to commit misconduct involving weapons, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Details of Mr. Elms’s arrest and the basis for the charges are sketchy, but the assault charge appears to be in connection with disputes that Mr. Elms has had with his critics and critics of The Erotic Review.
Mr. Elms, who lives in Southern California, was arrested when he arrived in Phoenix shortly after midnight on Feb. 15, according to a statement from the Phoenix police department. The statement said investigators had received a tip that Mr. Elms was trying to hire someone to kill a woman, identified by the police only as a 32-year-old woman.
Investigators met with Mr. Elms upon his arrival, and after a 30-minute conversation determined that there was cause to arrest him on a murder charge and also for conspiring to hire someone to seriously injure a 62-year-old man.
The county attorney ultimately dropped the murder charge. A spokesman for the attorney’s office declined to discuss the case. Mr. Elms could not be reached for comment.
Police and county attorneys declined to say who they believed Mr. Elms’s targets were. But the operator of SexWork.com, a Web site based in Phoenix that focuses on the sex trade, says he was one of them. He requested that his name not be used because he does not want to compromise his offline career. Over the past year, SexWork.com has posted allegations that Mr. Elms has coerced prostitutes into having sex with him, and that he told women that if they did not accede to his demands he would ruin their reputations on The Erotic Review. Mr. Elms has said those accusations are untrue.
The operator of SexWork.com said the Phoenix police told him that Mr. Elms wanted to hire someone to break his legs. The man said he believed that he was a target because of his past criticism of Mr. Elms.
The charges add to an already challenging legal environment for Mr. Elms, who is on probation for drug and gun charges.
The Erotic Review, though, continues to operate. Prostitutes and their patrons alike say it has provided a considerable new twist to their business by allowing customers to rate their experiences on the Internet in the same way that consumers have grown accustomed to doing in many other industries.
The result has been that some prostitutes have come to rely on the site as a source of business, seeking out good reviews and having their business hurt by bad ones. In the process, the site has provided a new kind of openness — or, rather, the veneer of openness — to a business that is usually conducted in the shadows. Some prostitutes complain that the power amassed by The Erotic Review has made them beholden not just to the site but to Mr. Elms himself. Mr. Elms previously told The New York Times that he had never coerced anyone into having sex with him.
The operator of SexWork.com said he had been posting a letter on various regional Web sites and mailing lists that are popular among prostitutes and their customers, urging people to come forward if they had evidence of coercive behavior by Mr. Elms.
[url]http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/04/police_woman_ki.html[/url]
Damn. Any one knows which girl this was?
[QUOTE=Stoner]Damn. Any one knows which girl this was?[/QUOTE]
UPDATE
DEATH INVESTIGATION AT THE COPLEY MARRIOT HOTEL
Homicide Victim Identified
The Boston Police Department continues to seek the public’s assistance for information related to the homicide that occurred at the Copley Marriott hotel on April 14, 2009. The victim has been identified as Julissa Brisman, 26, of New York City, New York.
On Tuesday April 14, 2009, at approximately 10:13pm, officers from District 4 responded to a report of an unconscious female at the Copley Marriott Hotel at 110 Huntington Ave. Upon arrival, hotel security updated the police that the unconscious female may have been the victim of an assault, possibly a stabbing. Officers observed Ms. Brisman suffering from what was determined to be multiple gunshot wounds to the torso.
Members of the Boston Fire Department administered CPR and EMS then rushed her to BMC where she was soon pronounced as a result of her injuries.
The preliminary investigation suggests Ms. Brisman was advertising masseuse services on Craigslist. Detectives are investigating the possibility that this incident was an attempted robbery. It appears that there was a struggle between the victim and the suspect in the threshold of the hotel room immediately prior to the shooting.
In addition, detectives are investigating the possibility that this incident is related to another recent incident which also occurred at a local hotel.
On April 10, 2009, at approximately 12:46am, officers responded to a robbery in progress at the Westin Hotel at 10 Huntington Ave. Officers received a report from a 29 year old female victim that she was robbed at gunpoint in her hotel room.
The Boston Police Homicide Unit is actively investigating the facts and circumstances of this incident and urges anyone with information regarding this incident to notify them by calling (617) 343-4470. Individuals wishing to provide information anonymously may do so by calling the CrimeStoppers Tip Line at 1-800-494-TIPS or texting ‘TIP’ to CRIME (27463). The Boston Police strictly protects the identity of all individuals wishing to provide information anonymously.
Someone else on another site posted this pic stating this is her. I do not know if it is for sure.
This story made one of the papers in Illinois. According to it this murder is similar to one in Providence RI that recently occured.
They had a better pic of the murdered girl.
[QUOTE=Rito1]UPDATE
DEATH INVESTIGATION AT THE COPLEY MARRIOT HOTEL
Homicide Victim Identified
The Boston Police Department continues to seek the public’s assistance for information related to the homicide that occurred at the Copley Marriott hotel on April 14, 2009. The victim has been identified as Julissa Brisman, 26, of New York City, New York.
On Tuesday April 14, 2009, at approximately 10:13pm, officers from District 4 responded to a report of an unconscious female at the Copley Marriott Hotel at 110 Huntington Ave. Upon arrival, hotel security updated the police that the unconscious female may have been the victim of an assault, possibly a stabbing. Officers observed Ms. Brisman suffering from what was determined to be multiple gunshot wounds to the torso.
Members of the Boston Fire Department administered CPR and EMS then rushed her to BMC where she was soon pronounced as a result of her injuries.
The preliminary investigation suggests Ms. Brisman was advertising masseuse services on Craigslist. Detectives are investigating the possibility that this incident was an attempted robbery. It appears that there was a struggle between the victim and the suspect in the threshold of the hotel room immediately prior to the shooting.
In addition, detectives are investigating the possibility that this incident is related to another recent incident which also occurred at a local hotel.
On April 10, 2009, at approximately 12:46am, officers responded to a robbery in progress at the Westin Hotel at 10 Huntington Ave. Officers received a report from a 29 year old female victim that she was robbed at gunpoint in her hotel room.
The Boston Police Homicide Unit is actively investigating the facts and circumstances of this incident and urges anyone with information regarding this incident to notify them by calling (617) 343-4470. Individuals wishing to provide information anonymously may do so by calling the CrimeStoppers Tip Line at 1-800-494-TIPS or texting ‘TIP’ to CRIME (27463). The Boston Police strictly protects the identity of all individuals wishing to provide information anonymously.
Someone else on another site posted this pic stating this is her. I do not know if it is for sure.[/QUOTE]