Craigslist Advertiser Reviews

This is the last time you will hear from me under the name Stiff E.

JSO got 33 guys and NO RED FLAGS went up anywhere on the internet until after they were through, which proves no one had a clue police were involved. Funny how you guys that say you thought the girls were police never posted any warnings.
Guys, you never know who is who on these sites.

JSO has learned a lot from you guys on what works and what doesn't for next time.
And if you believe that these Mongers weren't recorded talking about sex and money, I've got some swamp land to sell you.

Also, don't worry about tax dollars being wasted. I'm sure no Homicide detectives were taken off murder cases to work this sting. JSO has a Vice squad where all they do is operations like this 24/7.

Be warned and be careful. Next time it could be you on the news.

Don't hate the players...hate the game!!

Also, don't worry about tax dollars being wasted. I'm sure no Homicide detectives were taken off murder cases to work this sting. JSO has a Vice squad where all they do is operations like this 24/7.

Stiff E you Said it all. Homicide only works part time in our crime free city.
HAHAHAHAHAHHA.
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I know cops don't even enter the 32209 area code. They get escorterd out by UBM's.

Its funny how the SW in J-ville say that they give BJ's to cops. When is VICE going to go after the good ol boy's.

After all the legal fees and money spent on these 33 harmless individuals, Jacksonville can buy some more chalk to outline the dead bodies that seem to surface a lot.

Keep up the good work!

Poon Dog,

You sly devil smelled that from a mile away.
Good call.

It is about time to do a Pub Crawl again, the kind whee we sit down and they crawl on.

Drop me a PM if intersted, perhaps Saturday evening.

Take care and enjoy, WAV.

*$*$* LOVELY LILLY *$*$* - w4m - 22

Date: 2007-09-03, 5:11PM EDT


Hey my name is Lilly and im 5'7'' 120lbs long brown hair with blond highlight big beautiful hazel eyes nice flat stomach long sexy leg size 5 34c tanned toned body...... Foot fetish, most other fetishes(please tell or ask) and sensual massage ½ hr and hour sessions …..No rush….please call for an appointment ….. Sorry boys not FS…….*********. LOOKING FORWANRD TO HEARING FROM YOU!!! msg 60hh 100hr looking forward to hearing from you!

September 5, 2007
As Prostitutes Turn to Craigslist, Law Takes Notice
By BRUCE LAMBERT

GARDEN CITY, N.Y., Sept. 4 — The eight women visited Long Island this summer along with vacationing families and other business travelers, staying in hotels and motels in commercial strips in middle-class suburbs like East Garden City, Hicksville and Woodbury. Their ages ranged from 20 to 32.

Three had come all the way from the San Francisco Bay area, one from Miami. Two lived less than 60 miles away, in Newark and Elizabeth, N.J. and two even closer, in Brooklyn.

All eight were arrested on prostitution charges here, snared in a new sting operation by the Nassau County police that focuses on Craigslist.org, the ubiquitous Web site best known for its employment and for-sale advertisements but which law enforcement officials say is increasingly also used to trade sex for money.

Nassau County has made more than 70 arrests since it began focusing on Craigslist last year, one of numerous crackdowns by vice squads from Hawaii to New Hampshire that have lately been monitoring the Web site closely, sometimes placing decoy ads to catch would-be customers.

“Craigslist has become the high-tech 42nd Street, where much of the solicitation takes place now,” said Richard McGuire, Nassau’s assistant chief of detectives. “Technology has worked its way into every profession, including the oldest.”

Augmenting traditional surveillance of street walkers, massage parlors, brothels and escort services, investigators are now hunching over computer screens to scroll through provocative cyber-ads in search of solicitors.

In July raids, the sheriff of Cook County, Ill., rounded up 43 women working on the streets — and 60 who advertised on Craigslist. In Seattle, a covert police ad on Craigslist in November resulted in the arrests of 71 men, including a bank officer, a construction worker and a surgeon.

And in Jacksonville, Fla., a single ad the police posted for three days in August netted 33 men, among them a teacher and a firefighter. “We got hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hits” in phone calls and e-mail messages, said John P. Hartley, the assistant chief sheriff there.

Sex and the Internet have been intertwined almost since the first Web site, but the authorities say that prostitution is flourishing online as never before. And while prostitutes also advertise on other sites, the police here and across the country say Craigslist is by far the favorite. On one recent day, for example, some 9,000 listings were added to the site’s “Erotic Services” category in the New York region alone: Most offered massage and escorts, often hinting at more.

Law enforcement officials have accused Craigslist of enabling prostitution. But the company’s president, Jim Buckmaster, said its 24-member staff cannot patrol the multitude of constantly changing listings — some 20 million per month — and counts on viewers to flag objectionable ads, which are promptly removed.

“We do not want illegal activity on the site,” he said. Asked whether the company supported the police’s placing decoy ads on Craigslist, Mr. Buckmaster said: “We don’t comment on the specifics” of law enforcement.

Craig Newmark, the site’s founder and chairman, deferred all questions to Mr. Buckmaster.

The police have also occasionally turned to Craigslist to trace stolen goods offered for sale or make drug arrests. In June, in Nassau, spotting code words like “snow” or “skiing” to refer to cocaine, they set up a sting with an undercover officer to arrest a man who advertised cocaine for sex.

Experts say that under the federal Communications Decency Act of 1996, the ads are legal and Web site owners are exempt from responsibility for content posted by users. Craigslist, for example, last fall won dismissal of a suit that alleged housing discrimination in ads posted on its Web site. “You hold the speaker liable, not the soapbox,” explained Kurt B. Opsahl, senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital civil liberties group based in San Francisco.

While Mr. Buckmaster said Craigslist was no different from old-media publications that have long carried sex-oriented ads, law enforcement officials say its scope and format are especially useful to the sex industry. With listings for some 450 cities around the world, Craigslist claims to have 25 million users and 8 billion page views a month. Posting advertisements, except those in the employment and some housing categories, is free, as is responding to them by e-mail.

“The Internet has allowed people to make contact in a way not possible before,” said Ronald Weitzer, a sociology professor at George Washington University and a researcher on prostitution. “Ten years ago this was not happening at all.”

As Nassau’s district attorney, Kathleen Rice, said of Craigslist: “It’s as easy as it gets.”

Tracy Quan, a member of the advocacy group Prostitutes of New York and author of the autobiographical novel “Diary of a Married Call Girl” (Harper Perennial, 2006), acknowledged that “the Internet became a virtual street for people in the sex industry,” but said that “the police are as inventive and as wily as sex workers are.” She said that the stings amounted to entrapment of consenting adults, and that “it seems like an enormous waste of time resources by authoritarian busybodies.”

The police say that Craigslist has changed prostitution’s patterns, with people roaming the country, setting up shop for a week or two in hotels — often near airports — where they use laptop computers and cellphones to arrange encounters for hundreds of dollars, then moving on to their next location.

“They like to move around, that’s for sure,” said Assistant Chief McGuire. “They’re flying in from out of state because there is money here” on Long Island.

In Westchester County this spring, the police in Greenburgh, Rye, Rye Brook and Elmsford formed a joint task force to investigate ads on Craigslist, resulting in 30 arrests. Some of those arrested were out-of-town prostitutes who booked numerous dates in advance, then whisked in for a busy couple of days, the police said.

In Sandpoint, Idaho, population 8,105, R. Mark Lockwood, the police chief, said that an arrest this summer involving Craigslist “was probably our first prostitution case since World War II.”

Amid the police crackdown, in a game of electronic cat-and-mouse, the authorities say that Web site users who get wind of enforcement sometimes post warnings to thwart investigators.

The Craigslist modus operandi provides mobility, helping prostitutes keep a few steps ahead of the law, law enforcement officials say. It also affords a degree of anonymity — if they are caught, being away from home makes an arrest less embarrassing.

Pimps have also adapted to the computer age, the police say. Among those arrested here in August, on charges of promoting prostitution, was Victor Teixeira, 31, of Mineola. “He was managing the technology of it,” said Assistant Chief McGuire. “He recruited the women on the Internet. He put different ads up sometimes three times day. He would screen the calls and make the appointments.”

Mr. Teixeira pleaded not guilty; he could not be reached for comment.

Most of the arrests are on misdemeanor charges, with convictions resulting in fines of a few hundred dollars; only repeat offenders risk jail time. The real penalties are the disruption of business, the cost of lawyers and the seizures of computers and cash — as much as several thousand dollars at a time. The police say the focus on such misconduct is worthwhile because prostitution is often linked to other crimes involving drugs, weapons, physical abuse and exploitation of minors and immigrants.

Law enforcement officials ask why Craigslist even includes Erotic Services among its 191 categories. Mr. Buckmaster, the company president, said the site created that category “at the request of our users” for legitimate massage, escorts and exotic dancers. In an e-mail interview, he said that the police had praised the company’s cooperation, though he did not give examples.

Despite police complaints that Craigslist facilitates prostitution, some experts say the Web site also aids enforcement.

“Craigslist is a very open site, and it leaves digital footprints,” said Leslie A. Harris, president of the nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology. “It makes it easier for the police.”



Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company

Careful on Craigslist!

Mr C

I saw this one in Craigslist and sent an email. They responded that they have an incall location about 20 mins south of Middleburg. Was just wondering if anyone has any experience. Feel free to respond or PM me.

Here's the ad:

"Date: 2007-09-18, 9:00PM EDT

How bout that nice relaxing massage you owe yourself? We offer an incall massage in an atmosphere you will enjoy. Ambience, mood music, candles, all make for a perfect massage. Unhurried and caring therapist will make your massage a thing to remember and come back again and again. Email for an appointment. $150 hr. Male or Female therapists available on request."

If it sounds to good to be true it probably is. Anyone seen her?

[quote]I WILL DO AS YOU LIKE!!!!!!! SO FOR THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE CUMMMM SEE ME....

CALL 904-755 4884[/wuote]

Party,

Looking at the photos I would say she is bro. Go ahead and just remember all the rules and you can't get busted. Please let us all know how it went.

Have any of you guys that troll and. Main seen laney lately? Please let me know. I haven't heard anything from her in a couple of weeks. I'm a little worried about her

Thanks

Dave

[QUOTE=Bng Eyes]Say this one named Sofia on CL. Looks alright but would rather get the info from someone on there to see if safe so I know its not a bust.[/QUOTE]

I wondered if any of you guys had any info. Seems okay by the frequency of ads, but something about it just has me hesitating. So, I will keep following my gut until someone says she's okay.

She will try to get the money and run. Don't trust her.

Too bad. She is pretty hot.

She will try and take your money.

She is not a provider.

[QUOTE=Smitty Smitt]*$*$* LOVELY LILLY *$*$* - w4m - 22

Date: 2007-09-03, 5:11PM EDT

Hey my name is Lilly and im 5'7'' 120lbs long brown hair with blond highlight big beautiful hazel eyes nice flat stomach long sexy leg size 5 34c tanned toned body...... Foot fetish, most other fetishes(please tell or ask) and sensual massage ½ hr and hour sessions …..No rush….please call for an appointment ….. Sorry boys not FS…….*********. LOOKING FORWANRD TO HEARING FROM YOU!!! msg 60hh 100hr looking forward to hearing from you![/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=King Mong]I wondered if any of you guys had any info. Seems okay by the frequency of ads, but something about it just has me hesitating. So, I will keep following my gut until someone says she's okay.[/QUOTE]


I swear I seen her add in another city maybe tampa or miami.

I wonder if anyone from the board got her yet.

Speak up!

Drama

I got in touch with Lilly last week despite all the banter on CL. I called her and we agreed to meet at Motel 6 for a half hour session. She told me she was leaving her house and would meet me there in 30 minutes. I went to the hotel, and on a hunch I didn't pay for the room. But thought I'the call her to confirm first.

Sure enough, she didn't answer the first few times, and then finally answered and said she wasn't going to a Motel 6 for a half hour session. She said it wasn't worth it and there have been a lot of stings over there. I asked her why she didn't tell me that from the beginning? Why did she agree in the first place? She said sorry, but not in a very nice way. YMMV but I'm not going to try her again.

[QUOTE=Surferdrew2001]I got in touch with Lilly last week despite all the banter on CL. I called her and we agreed to meet at Motel 6 for a half hour session. She told me she was leaving her house and would meet me there in 30 minutes. I went to the hotel, and on a hunch I didn't pay for the room. But thought I'the call her to confirm first.

Sure enough, she didn't answer the first few times, and then finally answered and said she wasn't going to a Motel 6 for a half hour session. She said it wasn't worth it and there have been a lot of stings over there. I asked her why she didn't tell me that from the beginning? Why did she agree in the first place? She said sorry, but not in a very nice way. YMMV but I'm not going to try her again.[/QUOTE]
What do you think the problem was? What does anyone think her problem was? Do you think Uncle Leo is controlling her moves?
Max