Preface: About 10 years ago there was a provider in Palm Springs who had a string of reviews with scores of 10/10. After she had around three reviews I started reading them. Based on the words used in the reviews I concluded that it was highly likely each had been written by a female. After she got to about the fifth 10/10 review, I wrote TER. I wrote again after the seventh or eight 10/10 review. Finally, after she had 10 reviews each with 10/10 scores TER took down her profile. Although 10 years have passed since this happened, it is my recollection that most if not all of the reviewers had reviewed only the provider "in question".
Now, back to our regular programming.
I will not give any links here. If you want to play, you will have to do your own detective work as I have.
Here is some of what I noticed that raised my suspicions:
1) A very recent ad here from a provider with a name that is not familiar. Click on "see my TER reviews" and she has only one review, with an almost "perfect" score, listing a higher-than-average donation rate.
2) Check reviewer whose name is not familiar. He has three reviews, starting in February, all of which have high to "perfect" scores. Check to see if he has ever posted: San Diego Board-no; General Board-no; Newbie Board-no; Orange County-no; Los Angeles-no.
3) I read the one review of the gal who posted the recent ad. Well-written, but raises suspicions. I'll list only two:
A) Reviewer gives no indication of having seen her or her online ads before he booked, but comments that she has "new pictures" on her site.
B) Reviewer says that she has "done miracles" with her apartment, suggesting that he knew what it looked like before. Since this is apparently the first time he saw her, how would he know what it looked like before she performed the miracles?
4) Look at first provider "he" reviewed. It is the provider's only review. She was given high scores and her donation rate is at the high end of what the average range seems to be locally. The review profile says she swallows, however, the reviewer does not say she did nor does he specify she told him that is on her menu. The review is well-written, but sounds like a PR piece, using some words that seem to be more often used by females than males.
5) The other provider "he" reviewed: his was the second of her three reviews. Also reads like a PR piece. Her first reviewer has a lot of reviews, but his reviews also sound like PR pieces. And, he has a lot of reviews from the state where the provider who placed the ad was located before she moved here.
FYI: It took me more than two hours to conduct this research.
A Thought: now that the "colored" book site is defunct, I wonder if some of the "managers" who were active there have moved here.
Game on.....if you have the time