Kik Messenger

[Spunky34]

Has anyone used or been asked to use Kik Messenger to arrange a meet with a prossie?

A couple of months ago I had a reverse booking up on AW and got a reply from a fairly new girl - nothing about her on UKP, only a couple of feedbacks on AW (one from an inactive member, one from what seemed to be a male escort profile in the same area - so I was a bit doubtful).  But she was a good looking girl and we exchanged a couple of emails (she sent some face pics to my hotmail account too), all seemed fine in those messages.  Then she asked if I would like to speak on Kik Messenger, and I didn't really know what to make of it - if I want to speak to someone before meeting them I will always use my punting phone.  I also remembered that on the male escort profile which had given her feedback, that mentioned Kik somewhere in the profile.  I was not sure if there was possibly some kind of scam I could have been walking into.

I am fairly technologically ignorant, and have no idea if using something like Kik could potentially give away your private details or anything like that, so I thought it better to be cautious, made my excuses and left it there - but I would be interested to know if anyone has ever been asked anything similar, or whether there is any risk using messaging services like Kik?  Personally I don't see what is wrong with a totally anonymous prepaid phone.

[spkmstr48]

I would stick with the punting phone if I was you.

Don't know enough about kik to comment further.

 

[ukguysix]

I think kik is registered by phone no and/or email address. So if you have a punting one for both then I see no reason why not. I've noticed a few SPs on my whatsapp (still have that on my old handset)

[Aspen]

If you are going to use KiK or whatsapp, or one of those messaging services, you have to have a punting phone with a SIM in it that doesn't link to you and a completely fictional persona. If you can manage that then your greatest vulnerability is that all mobile communications record the IMEI number of the phone and where it is at the time to within about 100 metres. Swapping SIM's around between phones immediately links the phones together as does all communications to and from. But you don't need to worry too much about that unless you've committed a serious crime. Your wife/partner won't be able to dig that deep without assistance.

[jimmytick]

Kik isnt registered to a phone number. Its simply a username........

create 2 kik accounts, one for your friends which you link to your phone book. Start a few chats on there to look good.

Second account is a punting account, for the prossies.

Log into the friends account whenever home and leave phone laying around so your wife knows you use kik to chat to friends and its not some newly installed app that would make her suspicious. You can log into the second account as you see fit.

[Spunky34]

Thanks guys, that's helpful.  I can see that if you were, say, a student prossie, it might not be that easy to explain why you have two phones (if you didn't have a job you could hardly claim one was your work phone) so maybe having two accounts on a messaging app would be easier to manage.

In any case, I think I'll stick with the punting phone.

[Aspen]

Kik isnt registered to a phone number. Its simply a username........

That may be so, but it's still traceable to your phone and number.

[jimmytick]

That may be so, but it's still traceable to your phone and number.

How is it? you register a kik account through an email address

[Aspen]

How is it? you register a kik account through an email address

Yes, but if you use it on your phone when the message is transmitted so is your number, and the IMEI number of the phone.

What a lot of people don't realise is that every communication to and from every phone goes onto a huge database. And although it is not easily accessible, it still exists.

[jimmytick]

Yes, but if you use it on your phone when the message is transmitted so is your number, and the IMEI number of the phone.

What a lot of people don't realise is that every communication to and from every phone goes onto a huge database. And although it is not easily accessible, it still exists.

So as long as the prossie doesn't work for MIT during the day and spends her weekends hacking into government databases we are ok

[MancSean]

LOL or not sounds like a huge ordeal to book a prossie that hardly sounds credible.  I would stay well clear and not tempt anything bad on yourself.  Plenty more fish in the sea pal