Author Topic: Suspected AdultWork Scams  (Read 2321977 times)

Offline Londonpunter30

Would CS be interested though, as it's a non uk website?

Surely AW has to abide by some kind of internet code of practice? There have been instances in the past where dating sites have added their own fake profiles to raise interest and make money out of people. What AW are doing is the same.

This past week I've found fake profiles that were created as far back as July & August. Granted, AW have deleted them (eventually) when I've reported them, but why isn't anyone else apparently doing anything?

Surely when a bloke turns up at the door and it's not the girl who's on AW, does he think with his dick and go ahead with the shag anyway? Then leave disappointed afterwards because the girl hasn't offered the services mentioned in the profile? Why aren't these people complaining to AW about it?

Not sure what CS could do about the site itself, but if the girls are trafficked and it’s mainly one group of foreign people behind the prostitution racket, they could look into that side of things.

Only thing I can maybe see, is the money may need to this being looked into.  No tax is paid on this and we’ve already worked out the pimps are spending 20k at least per year in Croydon.  They must be making a fortune to make it worthwhile

Offline Lewis

The daily scammers have really been busy today.

3 separate groups, in the Kent & Hampshire areas.

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These will all be gone by tomorrow, to be replaced with yet more fake groups in the same areas.

Offline Londonpunter30

The daily scammers have really been busy today.

3 separate groups, in the Kent & Hampshire areas.

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These will all be gone by tomorrow, to be replaced with yet more fake groups in the same areas.

I do feel like the same gang of pimps is moving into more and more cities. 

Hopefully one day this will get investigated , but I’ve been waiting three years for the Croydon fakes to be dealt with, with no sign of any action so far

Offline Lewis

I do feel like the same gang of pimps is moving into more and more cities. 

Hopefully one day this will get investigated , but I’ve been waiting three years for the Croydon fakes to be dealt with, with no sign of any action so far

AW seem to be bulletproof. I do hope if and when an investigation takes place, the shit really hits the fan. That'll teach them to be too greedy and complacent.

At the moment it's becoming very much like Groundhog day with the same fake images being recycled over and over again. Surely all someone has to do is view a few pages daily to see the same fake images over and over again and instantly delete them. Keep on top of it, and the workload is very small.

They could also install a filter for phone numbers, like they have for emails (i.e. the same email address can never be used again). They could also stop phone numbers and private galleries from being displayed until the profile has been verified. They could still make a healthy profit from genuine accounts, and probably attract more genuine girls too.


Offline Londonpunter30

AW seem to be bulletproof. I do hope if and when an investigation takes place, the shit really hits the fan. That'll teach them to be too greedy and complacent.

At the moment it's becoming very much like Groundhog day with the same fake images being recycled over and over again. Surely all someone has to do is view a few pages daily to see the same fake images over and over again and instantly delete them. Keep on top of it, and the workload is very small.

They could also install a filter for phone numbers, like they have for emails (i.e. the same email address can never be used again). They could also stop phone numbers and private galleries from being displayed until the profile has been verified. They could still make a healthy profit from genuine accounts, and probably attract more genuine girls too.

There’s loads of things they could do, but don’t.  They can block IPs, repeats photos, same profile text, one IP accessing multiple profiles.

I’ve seen it stated on here they make more from webcam work.  It’s more like they will just drop escorting than clean up there act.  Having said that, I keep waiting for action and fail to see anything being done

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Her profile pic on AW has disappeared. Have you any references as to these other  pics at all :unknown:
She's back. Profile pic looks enticing but I cant help but think this is B&S.

Offline Londonpunter30

More fake accounts from AW

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She’s not even busty and same typo they’ve had for over a year


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Offline Lewis

More fake accounts from AW

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She’s not even busty and same typo they’ve had for over a year

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She's been doing the rounds on AW since 2017. Never displays a phone number. I class this one as one of AW's own profiles they put up on a regular basis to put even more money in their pockets.

I gave up bothering to log this one after a little while. "She" also uses similar pictures too, and always in a different location.

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New profile every day for this one. Also uses different photos too, but the same phone number.

These scammers must think we're daft.

I sent an email to AW asking why this one and others are continually allowed to keep uploading the same fake / stolen images every day.

I just got back the usual text book reply saying if I want to report members then to use the "Authentic Member?" link.

I went on to mention that when I do use that link, then keep banning my profile. Bangs head.

Offline Londonpunter30

New profile every day for this one. Also uses different photos too, but the same phone number.

These scammers must think we're daft.

I sent an email to AW asking why this one and others are continually allowed to keep uploading the same fake / stolen images every day.

I just got back the usual text book reply saying if I want to report members then to use the "Authentic Member?" link.

I went on to mention that when I do use that link, then keep banning my profile. Bangs head.

I’ve given up reporting accounts now.  They have prioritised profit over moderating their platform.

I don’t trust a single account created this year

Offline DouglasReynholm

The accounts mentioned from the last week or so's posts above are gone.

Don't give up reporting them.  :thumbsup:

Offline Londonpunter30

The accounts mentioned from the last week or so's posts above are gone.

Don't give up reporting them.  :thumbsup:

I’d rather they stayed and I blacklisted them.

With the scammers creating multiplied accounts daily it just generates more money for AW.  It doesn’t fix the problem

Offline Londonpunter30

not that we need more examples of how crap AW are, but this one has been doing the rounds for last few weeks.  The profile is created with the tel number as the location and same number is used on miltuiple profiles all over the country.  Dont get the point as it moves from place to place daily.  AW are so shit they cant stop a profile getting round their own paywall .

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Offline Lewis

Dont get the point as it moves from place to place daily. 

AW are so shit they cant stop a profile getting round their own paywall .


The number is just a centralised location one, answered by someone paid to man the phone, and then the punter is directed to an address of wherever that number is advertised.

AW could easily prevent this sort of thing from happening. Actually it's a wonder they haven't because those profiles that are doing it are avoiding paying AW £1.20 a day to display a number and AW are losing out on profits.

Other easy ways of adding a free number are in the username, profile write up, and the location (like you've mentioned).


Offline Lewis

Just had my latest reporting profile deleted. That one lasted for approx. 3 weeks. Registered it with a disposable email address (YOPmail) that takes all of 5 seconds to create.

Then AW removed 3 more that I created today. Seems AW have someone on the ball today and not their usual lazy moderator.

Pity they aren't so prompt in removing fake accounts though. They seem more interested today in removing profiles that are created to report fake profiles as it affects their profits.


Offline Londonpunter30

Just had my latest reporting profile deleted. That one lasted for approx. 3 weeks. Registered it with a disposable email address (YOPmail) that takes all of 5 seconds to create.

Then AW removed 3 more that I created today. Seems AW have someone on the ball today and not their usual lazy moderator.

Pity they aren't so prompt in removing fake accounts though. They seem more interested today in removing profiles that are created to report fake profiles as it affects their profits.

Exactly, proves how crap they are.  They are well aware of multiple profiles from the same IP address / browser, but only action it when it makes money for them

Offline Lewis

Another verified profile that is clearly using stolen photos belonging to someone called Holly Gibbons.

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Offline Londonpunter30

Another verified profile that is clearly using stolen photos belonging to someone called Holly Gibbons.

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https://www.ukpunting.com/index.php?topic=289209.msg3020475#msg3020475

Plus Southampton and Reading are miles from each other.  Classic “new in town “ phase too which is classic pimp terminology

Offline Londonpunter30

The number is just a centralised location one, answered by someone paid to man the phone, and then the punter is directed to an address of wherever that number is advertised.

AW could easily prevent this sort of thing from happening. Actually it's a wonder they haven't because those profiles that are doing it are avoiding paying AW £1.20 a day to display a number and AW are losing out on profits.

Other easy ways of adding a free number are in the username, profile write up, and the location (like you've mentioned).

These two phone numbers have been used wide, which means there must be a UK wide network of brothels.  Again this is the sort of shit that AW should be looking into.

They can ban punters from the site, but do fuck all about pimps


Offline Zebedee70

Not sure if this is the right place for this?

PG Scammer.

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Offline Londonpunter30

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This one has toured the country already.  Creates a new profile daily and can be in multiple places at the same time.

I’ve not reverse searched the pics but suspect they are stolen

Offline Lewis

I found 8 fake profiles in the Cambridge area on Saturday evening, ranging from dates created in August through to November, but with very few views. That was the big giveaway that they were fake accounts. i.e the low view count. All photos had been reversed to fool image searching on Yandex.

I found the same thing the other day in Liverpool. I noted down the phone numbers and those same numbers matched some of the fake profiles in Cambridge. Different photos this time though.

All the info is stored on my desktop PC. I’m currently on my iPad and don’t have the info to hand unfortunately.

I’m hoping AW will action my reports and not ban yet another reporting account I have had to set up.

The scamming that’s occurring on AW is on a massive scale. But as we have already worked out, some of it is by AW themselves.

I’ve got at least 4 years evidence of same photos being used over and over again. More recently (Approx 8 months) phone numbers being used over and over again. I’d willingly give this info to any authority wanting to investigate AW.


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And these are regular fakers who keep using the same images
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Offline Londonpunter30

I’d report it to crime stoppers.  There’s girls behind the numbers and think some are trafficked.  I’m sure a lot of UK prostitution is controlled by one gang hence the same numbers, profile text and pictures moving all over the country


Offline Horizontal pleasures

Lewis thank you. We know you are a punter when you post maybe 60 scam references on Xmas day!

Offline Lewis

I must be really pissing off AW lately. They are deleting my reporting accounts quite quickly now. Takes me all of approx. a minute to set up a new one though  :D

Pity the same can't be said for all the scammers accounts though. Up to two days or more to remove them. AW are definitely getting their monies worth from the PGs and phone numbers of the fake accounts.

With yopmail (that I now use to register on AW) I get 2 free email addresses. No registration process to go through. Chose an email name and off you go. You are also given an alias for that email address (hence the 2 free email addresses). Register an account on AW, get the verification code to your yopmail address, copy and paste it into AW and away you go.

I might even create a few spoof accounts on AW in the same locations using some of the frequent photos that always crop up. The scammers might  wonder what the hell is going on if they see accounts already set up with the photos they keep on recycling.


Offline Lewis

Another verified profile using stolen photos.

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I have reported this one that's "supposed" to be a verified member to AW several times now. Still can't get it removed. I even risked my genuine AW profile and reported it through that as well.

Anyone else care to try?

Offline The sperminator

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This profile just appeared. Accessing from nigeria, and a non adultwork email listed.
Might be dodgy

Offline Horizontal pleasures

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This profile just appeared. Accessing from nigeria, and a non adultwork email listed.
Might be dodgy
barebacker

Offline The sperminator

Yes, i saw that. Seems to,have ticked all bpxes

Offline Lewis

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This profile just appeared. Accessing from nigeria, and a non adultwork email listed.
Might be dodgy

Luton has quite a reputation for fakes accounts on AW.

Offline The sperminator

Luton has quite a reputation for fakes accounts on AW.
Said leighton buzzard which is unusual as not many sps in that area

Offline Londonpunter30

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This profile just appeared. Accessing from nigeria, and a non adultwork email listed.
Might be dodgy

It’s fake same as this one and others that appear daily

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Seems to be one or two groups flooding AW with fakes.  They must run prossies in every UK city

Offline Lewis

Yeah, but the county is Luton. These scammers don't care where they put the profile.

I've got several lists of the same scammers being in a different location with each new fake account they create.

Offline Lewis


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I have reported this one that's "supposed" to be a verified member to AW several times now. Still can't get it removed. I even risked my genuine AW profile and reported it through that as well.

Anyone else care to try?

I have finally managed to get this one removed from AW. I emailed the webmaster in the end.

No explanation as to why the lazy little shit receiving "Authentic Member?" reports kept ignoring them, despite asking them.

 

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Jesus the number of returning scammers simply can't be overlooked, this has to be AW creating them themselves, and taking all the money from private galleries full of stolen images and refunding fuck all then closing the profiles, nice scam if you can do it!

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Offline Horizontal pleasures

lifted from the spelling mistakes thread

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I do hope that this is a typo!

"...Slimy with a loving curvy and astonished styles..."

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more than a typo
not hot on geography and maybe a scam?

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Offline Londonpunter30

lifted from the spelling mistakes thread

Quote from: Corus Boy on Today at 06:52:10 am
I do hope that this is a typo!

"...Slimy with a loving curvy and astonished styles..."

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more than a typo
not hot on geography and maybe a scam?

Town:   Belfast
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Region:   Wales
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Fake pic is of Ariel Rebel they didn’t even change the file name, and it looks like a US bathroom too.

The whole first two pages of new profiles looked fake when I did a search yesterday

Offline Horizontal pleasures

Fake pic is of Ariel Rebel they didn’t even change the file name, and it looks like a US bathroom too.

The whole first two pages of new profiles looked fake when I did a search yesterday

gone already, named as 'Heary1'

Offline Londonpunter30

gone already, named as 'Heary1'

If you maximise the pic to view it full size yah can see the file name below the pic.  A lot of the time the porn site it’s stolen from is listed

Offline Lewis

Well as of yesterday, AW are banning any accounts within 10 mins of me registering them. I've tried at various times of the day, but it makes no difference.

I've obviously pissed them off too much by doing their job for them for the past 3 or 4 years, and shown them what a lazy dickhead they have who vets new profiles  :D Not to mention affecting the profits made by them by having to remove fake profiles once they've been reported. Although granted they haven't been that quick of late in doing that.

Before I create a new account, I clear my browsing history, cookies, etc. I also have a VPN so I can also change IP addresses at the drop of a hat if I need to.

Somehow or another they have the technology to know it's me that creates yet another account. They cannot be monitoring the website 24/7 and be doing it manually.

The only thing I haven't yet tried is using a different web browser (I always tend to use MS Edge).

If this is the case, then they could also use it to delete the daily fake accounts that keep getting created with the same fake/stolen photos over and over again. But obviously they would be reluctant to do that for profit reasons.


It kind of proves my point though, that they are knowingly allowing scammers and people traffickers on their website and doing bugger all about it.

Try and report these fake accounts however, and the reporter gets treated as if they're the criminal and have their own account removed for "not acting within the spirit of the club", and not using the profile to seek services, but using it solely to report accounts with.

AW might as well do away with the report profile option if they don't want people to report fake accounts.

Offline Londonpunter30

I’m pretty sure they can track the browser used too.  They’ve always had tech to stop the fake accounts they just choose not to.  Shows what a joke they are.  Don’t realise that if they don’t moderate the platform then trust will go and profits will fall.

They can easily ban IPs , browsers, email address, phone numbers but can’t be bothered.  The scammers have gone into overdrive this year and I keep hoping this will lead to the downfall. 

I had to go back to page four before I saw a genuine profile.   

I’m not reporting acccounts as that just means AW can steal credits and get more money when the pimp puts the profile back up