sex key scam

[northern_bear]

I don't know if this is a scam or not, but I suspect it most likely is. If someone here knows that it isn't please let me know. I'm going to assume it's a scam though, and not fall for it.

I've been partially suckered into this one twice actually.

There's an SP that posts on CL, and provides only an email contact, no phone number. The add looks interesting, so I email her to ask more info & possibly get a phone number and/or set up an appointment.

She writes back "I'd love to meet you, I'm in town for . . . blah blah blah . . .I only accept bookings online. Please go to this web site (link) to confirm your age & book an appointment. I hope to see you soon and . . . blah blah blah. P.S. Note that I require the online age verification from all clients, no exception. This is because . . . whatever."

Following the link results in a redirection to a web site where you are required to register for you "free Sex-Key ID", which will grant you "access to hundreds of great [porn] web sites." All they require of course is your credit card.

No doubt, there will also be a mandatory service fee, of just just $9.95 a month to obtain your "free" ID, or an automatic subscription to some other pay site.

Anyway, sounds like a huge scam to me. Can anybody either confirm or deny that?

 

[Frankfurt]

Why are we men so gullible? If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then it probably is a duck!

 

[Ross Eyerie]

THAT'S why I keep a second hotmail account... so the spammers can send all the junk mail they want to it and I can still use it for my 'questionable' activities... (hope that doesn't sound TOO creepy)

 

[FirstCaveman]

Yes... it does sound creepy - you're the only one that does that

 

[herelookin]

THAT'S why I keep a second hotmail account... so the spammers can send all the junk mail they want to it...

This has been suggested on many "tech" shows... There are many sites that "collect" email addresses (and others that fall prey to email spiders) for the use of spamming. By using a "second" address it allows your "primary" address free of SPAM.

 

[northern_bear]

Man,

I feel like some kind of an idiot. I was sucked into emailing this add not once, but twice tonight.

The problem is, advertisers on Craig's List get a different email address for responses, every time they post a new add. So there's no way of telling if it is the same scaming crap.

I emailed three SP who advertised on CL today. Two of them, responded with the same "you need to verify your age by going here" response.

I haven't yet received a response from the third email I sent, but that might just be because I added the folloing to the end of that email "P.S. If you are going to tell me to verify my age on the sex-key site, then F*** off. I'm not going to."

From now on, I'm not wasting any time contacting SPs on craig's list that don't include a phone number in the add.

 

[northern_bear]

Oh, ya.

And I agree with the two email things. I've been doing that for years. The email address that I restrict to family and close friends barely receives any spam.

The email address that I use when registering for things online gets bombarded with 200 - 300 junk mails per day.

Guess which address I used to register for TERB? Har har har.

 

[ncn2004]

Why do people allow this to happen - someone should shut them all down and fine the s$#t out of them! This "Industry" is lucrative enough without scamming! Very disappointing.