Although many of us use AW to locate service providers there are other sources of prozzie advertising-in our region Vivastreet is prominent. My own limited experience has been that Viva street has been a major source of B&S and inaccurate profiles and other scams so I thought I would take a closer look.
It took only six weeks to collect just over 200 profiles for women advertising in Cambridge (that’s over 33 new prozzies a week -which itself should raise eyebrows for those who see the same old same old on AW). Are these figures remotely plausible when 76% of the Vivastreet ads do not correspond to an AW ad. A reason that has been suggested is that AW runs a much stronger verifying system than Vivastreet. (
https://www.ukpunting.com/index.php?topic=182319.msg1923466#msg1923466)
At the top left of a Vivastreet ad you will see “posted by” and then a clickable link, which pulls out current ads posted by the same poster. Then other information is the prozzie phone number, the pictures and the blurb of the ad as well as the url for the ad itself. By collating all these patterns emerge.
Firstly the same “poster” may be responsible for large numbers of profiles-so for instance “Tabitadreagnea” is responsible for 51 of the entries and “jessypornista” for ten, Alexandra for eight and there were a number of other posters with multiple profiles. Examination of the phone numbers however showed that profiles from seemingly unrelated “posters” shared the same phone number on occasion so were in fact linked so Tabitadreagnea, Alexandra, Anays, Jessypornista and evelin23 are all related and together this super group were responsible for over half the total ads. Whether this represents a trafficking or pimping group or a huge B&S operation is unclear.
Of 208 profiles there were 117 separate phone numbers, many supposedly independent profiles shared the same phone number suggesting extensive B&S. Google searches using the phone numbers not infrequently turned up profiles on other sites for completely unrelated girls.
The same phone number was not infrequently used by several ostensibly independent posters, so for instance 07498773128 is used by three different “posters” one of whom (using google reverse image search) pinches pictures from German escort sites, 07505427612 pinches pictures from Alina Malin, 07475245911 from an Italian escort site, image searches show several cases of pictures pinched from Instagram or (surprise) Romanian sites.
Examination of images also show seemingly unrelated profiles are linked by backgrounds in the photos-a distinctive wallpaper or bed cover is a giveaway.
So is there any gold in the Vivastreet dross and how to find it? Well firstly check on the “poster”, if they are running several ads then beware. Are the rates 60/100 for the half hour/hour-then these may be a come-on-higher rates may are more likely to be genuine.
Does the phone number bring up profiles for unrelated girls on Google search? Are the photos obvious professional glamour shots, often a sign they are lifted from other sites such as Instagram-do a reverse image search to check-but this is not infallible. Is there a corresponding AW advert-then more likely to be genuine-i.e. passed AW verification for what it is worth.
In the end-if the ad. has passed all the tests and you are still tempted then TOFTT and report on UKP but don’tsay you have not been warned.
