So, today I got caught being incredibly stupid and had to to pay the price (literally) for it.
I signed up for Seeking a few months ago and was having some pretty decent success. I met and played with 4 different babies over the course of about 2 months and I let my success go to my head and I dropped my guard. A few days ago, a girl with the profile name Rita contacted me and said she was interested. Her profile pics were smoking hot. I am 52 y/o and she is 24 y/o, thin, great rack, big pouty DSL lips, she reminded me of Amanda Seyfried. Anyways, she moved to negotiate a price pretty quick. She asked for 450. I countered with 2 and she accepted right away. First warning sign. I asked about rules, she said she had none. Second warning sign. She did all this without asking me ANY details about me. Third warning sign. I asked her to move to text and she readily agreed. So I gave her my Google Voice account and we continued, where she was talking dirty about all the nasty stuff she wanted to do to me and I was eating it up like kid in a candy store. At this point, I am no longer thinking with my big head and she has me wrapped around her finger. So, she sets a M&G for tomorrow at a Starbucks in Midtown and said if it went well we could go back to her place for some fun. Awesome! Or so I thought. At this point, she asked me to send her a recent headshot so she would know what I looked like. And this is where I fucked up royally. Not thinking straight, I dug through my photo album and found a headshot from about 10 years ago and sent it to her. Unfortunately, I had completely forgotten that this was the headshot I used in my LinkedIn profile that I set up 10 years ago and completely forgot about.
A few hours later, she springs her trap. She sends me a screen capture of my LinkedIn profile, my Facebook profile, my wife's Facebook profile, my property address, etc. And tells me if I don't send her $1600 via Cash App she will go public to my wife and all our friends that I like to pay young girls for sex and send them copies of our conversation, screen caps of my Seeking profile, etc. , etc. Apparently, she did a Google image search and found my LinkedIn profile and from there got enough info about me to search Facebook and property records. She has me dead to rights and she knows it. She promises me that if I pay her, she will go away and I will never her from her again.
I'm completely busted and I don't see any way around it. I could risk telling her to fuck off but I looked at all the contact info she has from my LinkedIn profile and Facebook profile and I decided it wasn't worth the risk to see if she was bluffing. So, I told her I would pay her off but I can't do $1600. We settled on $1 K and I sent it her. At this point, I have no choice but to hope that she is an honest thief, but I won't be surprised if she comes back and asks for more, in which case, I will have to tell her NO and just risk dealing with the fall out or the blackmail will never end.
Lesson learned! Don't send ANY photos that you have ever used anywhere else. Don't give out ANY personal information that can be used to track who you are. I know these are probably common sense, but damn, she pushed all the right buttons and, like I said, I let my recent string of successes blind me to this trap.
Needless to say, I deleted my Seeking profile, my LinkedIn profile, and my Facebook profile. I have access to my wife's Facebook page (which she never checks), so I am going to monitor it for a while so I can intercept any incoming DMs, but I just have to hope for the best at this point.
In related news, I think I am probably going to take a break from this hobby for a while.
Stay safe out there.
