Several days ago I got a message from a new SB calling herself Ashley, seemingly very interested in me.  I replied cordially, but was not all that interested, so I gently told her I was too busy to begin a new arrangement.  She did not take the hint.  Then she sent me a final msg with her phone number and asked me to text her and deleted her account.  So  I texted her.  We had a pleasant exchange but she became very persistent sending me multiple texts.  I was about to quit replying when I got a text from her number from a man claiming to be her father and saying she was underage and had been discovered by her 8 year old sister making a video to send me and that his family was in an uproar.  Vague threats to call the police, etc.  I know I had done absolutely nothing wrong, but still I was upset.  Finally he began demanding I pay him  
$1700 for the custom laptop she destroyed trying to hide her activities from her parents. That's when I realized the entire thing was a hoax, a scam, and a particularly nasty one at that.  Looking back the whole thing makes zero sense, but at the time I was upset.   Of course I informed SA Admin, not that there's much they can do about it.  Just a heads up, and be careful out there guys.  There are so many sweet genuine young women on SA, it just makes me mad when I see the site being used as a platform for extortion.

After a situation last night did a search and found a few different threads related to the it. Not sure what the goal is, a scam, LE or other but posting here as I think it’s more of a scam.

 
Rarely will I send a message or reply to anyone with a stated age under 20, but an ad that had been up for almost two weeks caught my eye, a very cute 19 year old Latina. Sent a message and after a few SA chats went to an app. Chatted there a bit when she shared that she was really 17 and her B-day is in 9 days. Immediately I stopped trying to get a date and said I don’t get involved with anyone underage. As I sat there I started to remember and think about two situations roughly 3 and 4 years ago and how similar they were.

 
In all three instances the woman had to leave South Carolina due to issues with her ex and she came to my city because there was family here. In the first 2 instances the stated age was 20 I think, the ex was abusive and the family forced here to leave for her own safety. In the recent one the issue was a cheating ex, but the family forced here to leave for her own safety.  

 
In all three instances the timing of when she arrived in my city matched when her SA profile was set-up and her ex was always older (no age just older) but her family loved him until the issue started and the issue was always recent, in the last month or two. Since she’s in my city she is going to go to college here as she is of course without a job/income and while her family wants to help they don’t have enough money. The biggie is that in all three instances they stated they were 17 (so if the police are involved the messages would prove prior knowledge, guaranteed conviction) and in all three they were only days or weeks from their 18th B-Day.  

 
My initial worry a few years back was LE, but now I’m wondering if there’s a scam aspect. Will the “relative” call and threaten, will they follow her and physically threaten me (another post had the aunt come over). I believe this is more likely some type of blackmail scam.

I got a phone call saying this is officer so and so of the (name of city) PD . You can guess the rest, a complaint was fled against me, etc, etc. I called the PD and they actually have an officer by that name but assured me they would never call a suspect in this manner, it's a scam. Our state attorney general office said the same thing. First they scare you, then they demand money to make the problem, go away. And these scams almost always originate from a distant country, using spoofs to simulate a local phone number.  Just ignore them.

I've read on other monger blogs how this scam rolls out in countries like Thailand and the Philippines.  A Western guy shows up to enjoy the local hospitality of working girls. He finds a sweet, naïve, but supposedly LEGAL girl to take to his room for cheap carnal fun. About 15 minutes after they get to the room - enough for her to get naked - the cops or a "relative" bang on the door and bust in claiming she's underage.  All manner of threats are made and after the locals think they have the guy scared shitless, the offer to "forget it" for a measly sum of whatever he has on him, plus a few thousand  (USD) to be put on his credit card.  In some cases, they actually have a real cop (on the take) who will arrest the guy.  
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You did the right thing, almost. As soon as you found out that the "girl" was underage, you should have just stopped messaging, taken screen shots of the entire message stream for your protection, and then blocked the number before reporting the profile to SA.  All messages you sent, but especially those sent after the "notice," are subject to be edited and used to try to blackmail you.  Of course, these scammers will NEVER actually go to the police (unlike in Asia). No criminal is going to identify him/her self to law enforcement officers. But still, the more they can keep you talking, the more they can try to leverage you.  
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In this case your instincts and experience served you well, so...
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Life is good.
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The Cat

Some details I left out for the sake of brevity.  The bogus police officer would not tell me who had filed a complaint against me and never mentioned SA or any website.  I have no idea how he got my name and phone number as a potential mark for his scam.  All contact with him was by telephone voice call, so there were no screens to take a shot of, nor was there any specific profile on SA to report.

And isn't this why we wait to divulge our real names, identifiable details (if we ever do) ... and one of many reasons to use disposable/untraceable phone numbers?