Just couple of situations encountered today figure share as cautionary tale.
One was fairly standard scam, the other a little different.
Actually answered ad for Nancy on that adultsearch that keeps popping up here. End up texting with girl, she sends me to website that some of the higher end girls use to get more details. Pics naturally are gorgeous, but $ ridiculously low something like 1.0 for hour. It did state rates would double soon, just trying to get new customers-nice touch. Has a YouTube video embedded that says wants $25 deposit. So, went back to texting.I know I dealing with a human as I call her on deposit saying I won't do that with unknown girl. She claims it for $25 cam show to make sure I not LE lol. A little more debating, n then start getting more texts with step by step instrux on how to get into cam show. Figure that likely a bot and just blocked the number.
Second one more serious. Start texting with drop dead gorgeous hot babe from a SD site. We do a little of the normal chitchat, conversation quickly turns to meeting up. So I figure probably a pro or semipro which is fine. However, I take lead in asking for roughly what she looking for, and she declines to tell me saying talk about when we meet. Red flag there, usually it the girl pressing me for allowance amt n me trying to put it off until I meet the girl.Talk some more, establish can use her place extra room in apt n roommate won't mind n also dodged allowance question again. Skip ahead n I said want to meet for coffee first for both our safety sake n then go to her apt. She doesn't want to do this (she even says I dont want to make choice I will regret later), and then I suggested a specific Starbucks in the town she previously said she lives in. Radio silence. So, upshot was I was talking to god knows who, n very likely if I went directly to whatever address I given for her apartment, would have met couple of guys with knives or whatever...
Not posting this to pat myself on back (I posted b4 on how I got ripped off recently) but just as cautionary tale, particularly for newbies. Anything that looks tgtbt and starts to smell fishy, best to think with the big head.