Author Topic: Investigatory Adventures on Locanto – “If it seems to be too good to be true…”  (Read 2034 times)

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A strange site, Locanto. 

You can’t fault their safety tips, however – specifically, Safety Tip No. 10, which reads as follows: “Be careful; if it seems to be too good to be true, it most likely is.”

Take the exemplary case of Mary09
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Nice looking girl, no?

Her postcode is given as PO1 3DT, which is the postcode for The Hard (oo-er, missus), a location on the seafront in Portsmouth.  And her phone number is given as 07429-555749.

A few days ago I exchanged a few texts with Mary.

She quoted me £120 per hour in-call, £150 out-call and asks where I’m located.  I say Portsmouth, and ask where she is. 

She:  “Yea, I’m based in Preston.”

Me: “Preston? That’s over 250 miles from Portsmouth!”

Mary: “I’m based in Portsmouth sorry”

In fact I later discovered that she is indeed simultaneously based in Preston (and doubtless numerous other locations):
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Same phone number.

Meanwhile, Mary09 repeats her prices, adding: “… and you have to make half of payment for booking confirmation before you set off to my address and I accept all by bank transfer”

Yes, babe, of course.  No problem.  Just give me your bank details.  The money will be in your account in less than five minutes.

I subsequently did a Google image search, and got numerous “hits”.  Here are some:

Masry09’s main picture appears on Instagram and X under the name Aiyanna Aivery.

It’s on Facebook for Kimberly Carolina.

And it features on a Canadian escort site
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where she’s Regina of Saskatchewan (or rather was, because, if you click on, you find the ad's no longer available).

Still, she sure gets around, does Mary / Aiyanna / Kimberly / Regina...

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I meant to post this on the main UK Punting board, since its theme is general – indeed international! – rather than regional.  If some amiable forum helper sees this and agrees, could he kindly move it there?

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Photo actual comes from the social media sites of a "Aiyanna Aivery"

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Thank you, Scutty, for moving this thread (if I am right in assuming it was you).

Meanwhile, I suppose this thread is as good a place as any to post about another extensive scam on a “minor” website, in this case Friday Ad.

When I saw this profile ...
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... I thought it was of interest, and exchanged a few texts with the girl.  However I didn’t get to the stage of suggesting a date for a meeting.  Had I done so, I imagine I would have been asked for a deposit.

The reason I discontinued my texts was that I did a Google image search on this photo ...

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… and discovered that it comes up all over the place, including on other Friday Ad profiles – although, oddly, the profiles are all from the south of England.  I wonder why?

You could argue that Zara genuinely moves around southern England, but the “latest update” information on each profile makes this implausible.  Her Portsmouth profile was last updated four days ago.

… Bristol, two days ago …
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… Bournemouth, five days ago …
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… Crawley, four days ago …
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… and Gray’s, four days ago …
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The photo has also appeared on the Secret Hostess website, for Vanelsa in Detroit and Lia in Zurich:
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19 August 2023
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8 December 2023

… on various porn sites …

… and on the Facebook profile of one Rossy Maria Andre.  Rossy claims to have been born in Los Angeles and educated at Oxford University – but her profile is written in Filipino.  Funny that.

The Friday Ad stuff all seems rather a lot of effort.  But I suppose they earn enough from what is presumably a deposit scam to make it worthwhile?

« Last Edit: August 09, 2024, 05:42:34 pm by Vice Admiral »

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With very slim pickings on Adult Work in the Portsmouth area, I continue intermittently to look at Locanto, in the hope of locating hidden gems.  But it's worse than useless.

The main problem is that it's obvious that almost all the escort ads are bogus.  In the Portsmouth area, the only ones I can be sure are genuine are the multiple ads for a hooker in Gosport in her thirties who I'm certain is a girl I saw several times off Adult Work about ten years ago.  (In her Adult Work days she called herself Honey.) 

There are numerous ads for girls for whom Google picture searches make it obvious they're not doing tricks within hundreds – or thousands – of miles of south Hampshire.

Most of these palpably bogus ads indicate that the advertisers communicate only on Whatsapp.  Now I'm not quite in the Mr Justice Cocklecarrot category when it comes to Whatsapp – "Who is this Whatsapp you're talking about?  Is he a private detective?" – but I'm not far off.  All I know is that it's a tool for communicating, and that I'll never use it.

Anyway, I idly wonder what would happen if I did use Whatsapp and I messaged some of these girls.  In other words, what is the nature of the scam?

Does anyone have a theory?  Or, indeed, know?   

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Anyway, I idly wonder what would happen if I did use Whatsapp and I messaged some of these girls.  In other words, what is the nature of the scam?

Does anyone have a theory?  Or, indeed, know?

Whatsapp communications are encrypted and to all intents and purposes impossible to intercept or to locate the sender.
Also depending on how the account is set up the messages can be deleted retrospectively leaving no trace.
So no evidence that it ever happened.

My experience is that girls requesting Whatsapp comms are either setting you up for a deposit scam, or else for a "I'm Frank of the Mafia" blackmail threat.
I'd also suspect that some of them are setting you up for a "get out my boyfriends here" theft or mugging.

Work on the basis that if it looks, smells, or feels bad, it will be bad

Offline RandomGuy99

Whatsapp communications are encrypted and to all intents and purposes impossible to intercept or to locate the sender.
Also depending on how the account is set up the messages can be deleted retrospectively leaving no trace.
So no evidence that it ever happened.

My experience is that girls requesting Whatsapp comms are either setting you up for a deposit scam, or else for a "I'm Frank of the Mafia" blackmail threat.
I'd also suspect that some of them are setting you up for a "get out my boyfriends here" theft or mugging.

Work on the basis that if it looks, smells, or feels bad, it will be bad
Except they will be recording to your IP address so they will be able to trace who sent it.

They'll also have a copy of the messages that were sent even if it appears deleted on your device.

They will also have a way to decrypt messages if required to do so by law enforcement and some encryption algorithms have ways of being quickly cracked.

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Thank you, Scutty and Random, for your informative responses.

It sounds as if Whatsapp and Locanto are best avoided!  Certainly as a combo.

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Except they will be recording to your IP address so they will be able to trace who sent it.

They'll also have a copy of the messages that were sent even if it appears deleted on your device.

They will also have a way to decrypt messages if required to do so by law enforcement and some encryption algorithms have ways of being quickly cracked.

In many cases the remote end of the connection is in or routed through the Caribbean, Nigeria, or Vietnam so you can pretty much forget any IP address chasing.

Offline cunnyhunt

Except they will be recording to your IP address so they will be able to trace who sent it.

They'll also have a copy of the messages that were sent even if it appears deleted on your device.

They will also have a way to decrypt messages if required to do so by law enforcement and some encryption algorithms have ways of being quickly cracked.
Being able to trace IP addresses is incorrect.

If WhatsApp was able to be easily decrypted the Security services wouldn’t ask for access and your parliament wouldn’t use it for business. I have conversations with MoD personnel over WhatsApp.

Offline Stevelondon

I don’t avoid WhatsApp.
I don’t use Locanto cos I don’t need too.
Simples.