DaveM2

I've noticed this as well. It's always girls with extremely high rates, given that NS has a relatively poor population (and high hotel costs) it's going to be harder for them to have a successful trip here than elsewhere. Once they announce the tour and get too few pre-bookings they decide not to bother which is reasonable. As to whether or not it's a scam a lot of them clearly state that the deposits are "non-refundable". If that's true I guess you either have to hope they eventually end up coming or travel yourself to meet them? Or maybe they wave that for tours? If it's the former I would call that a scam.

The reasonable thing for them to do would be to either offer better service or charge less if someone else comes along and they want to stay competitive. Instead we get this childish nonsense, no wonder the scene in Halifax is so weak.

I saw her last time she was here, very reasonable rates and great service. Glad she came back because I know she had a lot of issues last time with fake bookings.

Bingo. Pretty reckless on their part given that discussing irl meetups on OF is against the TOS. They are basically baiting people into asking for just that with these deceptive ads.

I don't know where you are coming from or how often you travel elsewhere but the scene in Halifax is pretty rough these days between the lack of agencies/MPs and extremely high housing/hotel prices. If you are from a similar size city or have other trips coming up and have a limited budget you might want to consider saving your money. Most of the independents have sporadic short notice availability, and there aren't many that fit the groups you are looking for. You're better off waiting until you are here and then see who is working, then cross reference with the recommendation section. For petite (white) women my favorites are Alexis (9908) and Jade (4369) but as I mentioned, available very sporadically. Asians are literally all bait and switch scams don't even bother clicking the ad.

I think you can look in any city in the country and see that exact ad word for word. Extremely blatant scam.

If every potential client stopped seeing these types for a few weeks they would disappear forever. That applies to deposit scams too, guess what would happen if everyone refused to send money in advance under any circumstance? No more scams because it costs money to advertise and nobody is going to pay to run scams with no return. Unfortunately the number of people even aware of this forum is a small minority, and a lot of people have low standards and will accept the person at the door looking nothing like the pics advertised, being several decades older etc. Sucks that this kind of dishonesty is tolerated but that's just the way it is I guess.

The ad text says "yellow hair" which certainly doesn't match the pics so this is def a bait and switch. This one also wasn't at the usual locations and was a thumbs down, might be the same girl/group:

For future reference I'm pretty sure there's an agency from Montreal that's uses the higher end downtown hotels. It's still the same old auntie bait and switch crap as the others so don't be fooled if it's not one of the usual locations.

Stella French from YFL was fantastic. Don't know if/when she will be back but she has visited a few times before.

The false advertising really is obnoxious. There have been so many times where I see a girl advertising as mid 20s on a forum account made in 2010. Always do your research it can save you a trip.

The one sided legality and normalization of sending money in advance has created a feeding frenzy for scammers. It's very low risk to run deposit scams which is why people doing these IRL ones always surprise me. Only a matter of time before they fuck with the wrong person. I guess these people are complete morons though I mean in this case they had it all set up but thankfully couldn't even bother to show up on time.

Name and number match with mixed reviews on the other forums.

GFE and PSE have become completely arbitrary terms at this point. If you care about a specific service you'll need to ask rather than assume they are using the same definition as you. Fortunately in this case she makes it very clear in the ad.

Multiple cities, 47 pounds, ad text was clearly run through google translate, Oklahoma area code. 100% fake.