Scam Alert

June 4, 2021 by Maggie McNeill

Heads up, ladies; it looks like there's a new pack of scammers in our neighborhood. Despite being semi-retired, I still occasionally get texts from my number in scraped ads. But since Friday, I've received FOUR bogus texts from numbers claiming they want appointments of increasing length, and all asking for a link to my profile on a website I've never heard of before, "Private Delights". Despite coming from different phone numbers, they appear to have been written by the same person or group of people; here are the texts:

3:41 PM PDT on May 28th: " Hello! I'd like to book a 1 hour session with you. Can you send me the link to your private delights profile? Thank you 🙂 "

On Verify Him, this # has no info at all.

3:55 PM PDT on May 28th: " Hi dear. Can you message me on privatedelights? I'd like to schedule a 2 hour meetup. "

On Verify Him, the prefix of this # has a very high number of entries such as "Scammer", "Time Waster", "Fake Sugar Daddy", and "Con Artist".

12:57 PM PDT on May 29th: " I'm looking to celebrate my birthday, do you do overnights? If you do, can you send me your private delights profile so I can make the booking? "

On Verify Him, the prefix of this # has a has a high number of entries such as "nuisance" and "verbal abuse". The number itself shows up in a database of known scammers.

4:55 PM PDT on May 29th: "I'm interested in booking a 2 hr session - can I send you my screening through Privatedelights? Please let me know, thanks!"

As you can see, I got two more on Tuesday; they appear to come in pairs, and all of them are Los Angeles area numbers. It seems pretty obvious that this is a scam from the owners of "Private Delights" to convince sex workers that it's the hot new platform crawling with good, high-dollar clients, so please don't let them waste your time with empty promises.