: Washington DC Discussion : potential scam alert...

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posted 11 years ago

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all y'all are probably too experienced and intelligent and wise to fall for it anyway, but

Violet (meetviolet.com) is apparently a hot 18 year old (already makes me suspicious) who is GFE and inexpensive! win-win-win!!

Except she won't see you until you 'fill out the form' at escortchex.com ("it's free" she says).

Apparently you give your credit card number (!) to this site to 'verify' you. The site is initially free but after a two-day 'trial' you get billed like $40.

google escortchex for some comments. A guy on some other site was taken.
"So I thought I'd take a chance on this beauty:

http://albany.backpage.com/FemaleEsc...iting/15825592

TLDR - Scam, stay away Read on for description of what happened

Having her own website seemed like a good sign, and the reviews she linked were all positive and confirmed she was real and her contact info in her ad.

I sent her an email, got a decent response, responded with time I was looking for, got an affirmation and then asked to sign up for a site, excortchex.com.

I thought, why not, TOFTT. I noticed the website in question seemed to have some broken functionality (as a web developer by trade this annoyed me on a professional level). As I signed up (it kept saying no charge, and I was wondering how any information I gave would "validate" me). After registration it brought up another site within a portion of the first site, which seemed suspicious behavior. The embedded content I thought was an iframe, nope, just some sort of weird embed.

I then received a receipt for my purchase from the site with a $39.95 charge. I immediately contacted customer service and was informed I had a free 2-day trial and I would be billed for that amount after the trial period. I immediately canceled that account.

I then sent her some emails and texts with no response. I called the two numbers I found for her. One just went right to a recorded message directing me back to her site. The other just rang and rang then went to a voicemail that was useless.

After about an hour of no response I tried the process again with another email address. All the emails I received in that new chain were IDENTICAL to the first set.

All of this leads me to the conclusion her ad was TGTBT and this is a scam. I also did a web search on the phone number (should have done this first) and noticed she has posted 7 or 8 ads with that number in the last 2 days all the way from California through New Jersey to here.

Stay away. "

Stay sane, stay safe!

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