Here is the scenario. Found a cute little thing on BP. The only way to contact her is through Instant Message. She requested I view her $25.00 Cam show to verify.... She insisted She was a "Real Escort" and this was how she verified people.
Here is my question. Have any of you EVER heard of this kind of Verification and it not being a SCAM??
I've been around the hobby for years and have always heard this kind of thing was completely bogus.
Can any one out there verify, this verification process??
Originally Posted by BullDog211
Question: If Skype is free, why would you need to pay $25 to video verify? Do you pay $25 to a provider for her to screen you by phone or for any other screening for that matter?
When in doubt, always apply Ockham's razor:
Ockham’s razor, also spelled Occam’s razor, also called the law of economy, or law of parsimony, is the principle stated by William of Ockham (1285–1347), a scholastic, that Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate; “Plurality should not be posited without necessity.”
The principle gives precedence to simplicity; of two competing theories, the simplest explanation of an entity is to be preferred. (Emphasis added)The principle is also expressed “Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.” (Emphasis added)
Applying Ockham's razor in any situation where there are two or more possible explanations will give you the right answer nine times out of ten. Doctors use it when making a diagnosis. A very close friend of mine is an M.D./Ph.D. hematopathologist and when doing clinical rounds in med school 25 years ago, the chief resident advised the group of students that "[w]hen you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras", meaning that when making a diagnosis, they should go with the most common condition that fits those symptoms, not the the most exotic or unusual condition. The phrase "if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck" is also just another variation of Ockham's razor.
So, to apply this to the hobby . . . if a provider wants
you to pay
her to screen you using a communication mode that is readily available for free, what's the most likely explanation?
1. That it's a scam; or
2. That she is has discovered this great, new, cutting-edge way to screen that no one else has ever thought of?
Some things never change.