I reached out to a well reviewed provider for an appointment. She posted on Twitter that she’s offering discounts for prepayment. It’s significant, almost 20%. I was emailing with her at an email address associated with many reviews here and other sites, all of them good. I thought nothing to worry about. She sent me her username to send the money and it was only 1 day old. I got a little worried about that and then I looked back at her Twitter and saw she set it to private, also within the last day. That gave me more pause. I told her I’d rather just do cash. She said it wasn’t going to work out and I was wasting her time. I wanted to confirm I wasn’t out of line and that most people agreed those were red flags - payment recipient being brand new and Twitter set to private. I know people in this industry switch their Twitter back and forth all the time but the timing seemed questionable.

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If so, then that's the big red light right there.

 
Generally if you trust your gut on these matters, you'll save yourself a lot of grief.

you dodged a bullet.  This whole scenario stinks.  As Fisher pointed out, her refusing to see you even at full price is the tell that it was a setup.  Its probably a guy who has hacked her contact emails, and naturally, if a dude showed up, you would not go through with it, so yes, technically you wasted his time because he was only interested in scamming you, and your response made that impossible, but that's better than YOU losing both your time AND your money.  

Thanks for reassuring me. She probably is hacked, I hadn’t even thought of that. I was guessing she had an assistant trying to run game but hacked is more likely.

...no matter the discount, no matter the circumstances. Even for a "deposit" I would never agree to. And if a provider insisted then I'd just find another one.

Keep in mind that a provider isn't running a legitimate business where there's some sort of legal recourse to get your money back if the services aren't performed.  

Perhaps if providers started accepting IOUs in lieu of cash or allowed clients to run up monthly tabs for services to be settled at the end of month then I might consider prepaying, but even then probably not lol

I'm one of those guys who has never paid a deposit in the P4P world, and I sincerely believe that I never will. One thing that gets me about some of the guys who do pay deposits or are willing to pay deposits are the ones who wrote "normally, I would not have paid it, but she looks so damned sexy in her ad" or "she has the biggest breasts ever" or some other teenaged fantasy line. LOL, hello! There are sexy women and big-breasted women who don't charge deposits! SMH ROFLMAO.

And perhaps unironically, the providers whose ads make them wonder if they're TGTBT are PRECISELY the ones they should never put down a deposit for LMAO!

Your instincts are dead on. I'll guess there was one other "red flag" that you missed, and that her screening was either non-existent or much lighter than her review history suggests.  

 
In addition, I'd check the spelling of her Twitter account. It may be that her email was hacked (or taken over by a pimp/BF), but her twitter was not. Instead you were led to a fake/catfished twitter account.  

 
Real word example:  I DM'd an A-List Porn Star who has escort ads on several legit websites. I'd been following her Twitter and IG and she mentioned that her sugar baby profile on "Seeking" had been taken down. So I reached out to her through a Twitter DM and got a quick reply, favorable rates and flexibility on schedule for an outcall to my home.  Then she asked for all of it, up front, in Bitcoin.  After more back and forth on payment methods, full pay vs. deposits vs. cash when she shows up, I realized she had NEVER asked me a single screening question.  That's when I noticed her Twitter account name had an extra "x" in it. It all unraveled from there. Even on Seeking, there are vetting steps for both parties before agreeing to meet. When I called her on it she denied it, of course. Her (false) indignation just made it more obvious. I gave her two options to get us back on track: Video Chat Now, or DM me from her "primary" account with details we had discussed (she claimed we were using her back up account.) She agreed to video chat - IF - I pay 50% in advance. I blocked her and moved on.  

 
Life is good

 
The Cat

I would say that she was scamming you.

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