OK so my first post, and from what I've read am sure to come in for some stick

Work was taking me to Portsmouth for the weekend of 19th & 20th Dec, so had a look around for an overnight booking (can't do 1 or 2 hours)
Scarlet's profile below seemed to tick the boxes so made contact.
External Link/Members Only- Despite her having no feedback (I have positive 15+) she asked for a deposit, alarm bells rang
- Paid deposit a month in advance advising her that I'd not be paying any more
- Hotel and restaurants booked and sent her screenshots of these via whatsapp
- She has a habit of ghosting for weeks at a time and saying that she lost/broke her phone*
- I then get a text from her saying that a married client has transferred her double the amount for that weekend
- I tell her to take the other client and, since she had his money in her account she could return my deposit
- She then says "sorry that text wasn't meant for you"
- Ghosted again for another week
- Eventually she came back to me to advise she'd 'had a tough few days'
- I advised "me too as has lost three of my clients"**
- She then tells me she'd been raped!
- I told her that I couldn't be intimate with anyone that had been through that type of trauma (who could?)
- She said "You weren't going to make the booking anyway"
- I cancelled and blocked her, the hotel and restaurants and drove up and back in 1 day for work
So am posting as a warning, her initials are SM and the last two digits of her sort code are 27, the last three of her acc no is 360. Sadly I think with AW effectively down there are more scammers with zero feedback about simply because they can't be booked and/or left feedback!
Stay well clear
SUL
PS: A fool and his money!

* If I am booking for a weekend (and paying that sort of money) then I'll want to confirm they've received the funds, also to make arrangements etc, not harass them with calls/texts.
** I work with the elderly