...watch here for scam alerts:

We all hate to be a victim. Dude, that sucks.

As with any business transaction, you want to be careful. Remember the things you learned in grade school like: "Use common sense." and "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."

This section of www.RentBoyConfidential.com is a service to both escorts and clients to keep you aware of things that we are made aware of.

ATTENTION CLIENTS:

Added: 08/21/06

Reported in Orlando, Chicago, Ft. Lauderdale and elsewhere.

Escort will ask the client to send Western Union before appointment.

Escort will never show up.

Think about this: Would you wire money for dinner or other services before you actually recieved it?

ATTENTION ESCORTS:

Added: 08/21/06 (..when I first put up the page.)

Reported worldwide

You will get an email from a Yahoo!, MSN, Hotmail, AOL, AIM or other portal e-mail from a client who is going to be traveling into your city for business or a conference or because a family member is ill.

He will want to book a long period of time with you like 3 days to a week.

He will want to send you a money order beforehand.

He will ask you for your address and set up time.

You may actually speak to someone, most likely from a blocked, restricted or private number.

You may actually get a FedEx, DHL or similar package with real-looking money orders.

The mail will usually look something like this:

Greetings!
Thanks for the internet assess which make me locate a gay excort to keep my company when i get to the canada.I will be spending weeks in the canada,i got your information after relentless search for an excort to keep my company upon my arrival in the canada.Mail me back if you will be available when i get there.
Love from peter
 

or

Hello,
Hello how are you, I'm Bobby Maxwell an handsome and cute sexy guy living in Uk, I have a two days confrence over their in the state on the 5th and 6th of June, and i will need an Escort for the two night i will use in the state, so i found your profile on www.canadianmaleescorts.com and i like the way you look and the words you wrote their about your self, so i wish to know your charges for an hour or only two night so i can pay you the upfront payment before my arival day, and also include your picture as i include my own to know more about how you look.
Bobby!

What to watch out for:

• Nowhere do these emails use the name of a city. The writer does not specifically state either where the client is from or where they're headed to.

• Was it a mass mailing? Was it addressed directly to you? Look at the e-mail headers in the TO: CC and BCC fields.

• The second one offers to make payment up front. This is a warning sign on two fronts. Honey, it's escorting, I dont know that I have heard of many valid times a real client wants to or has offered to pay up front in their initial contact with an escort. That's something you work into.

• Where is the IP address? You can run an IP address check and see where it was sent from? Is it from Canada or the UK or from a hotel in Boston?

• Myself or other escort friends have gone back and forth with the e-mails, so there are people who are willing to invest time in the scam. Use the word 'HERE' and ask "...when are you coming here." and see how long it takes for him to know where you are. If he was interested in hiring you, he would know where you were or where you were going to meet.

• Guys with large amounts of money to spend on escorts generally have respectable writing skills. Their sentence structure may be poor if English is not their first language, aside from that it will be okay.

• Okay, both generally contain bad spelling and grammar.

Later on, you will get an e-mail like this:

"I will send you a money order for six thousand US dollars. You will keep two thousand for your fees plus five hundred dollars to rent a suitable hotel room for the two of us and send the balance of three thousand five hundred to me."

I have one word for you, actually two, but you know what I mean - IDENTITY THEFT.

I know, I know, you are the exception, you have a real deal here, you even got the money orders. Not so fast, my dear.

The money orders he sent were counterfit.

You deposit them in your bank account and wire him the money before they come back as no good and the money gets reversed out of your bank account.

or

He cancels and wants the money back after you deposit them.
 

One of my other friends got to the bank and the teller said, "I am supposed to call the police on you. We have a bunch of these and we know that the recipients of the money orders are escorts, so I am keeping these, but you need to go now."

Think about this:

Never let your desire for the dollar make you ignore that little voice in your head.

If your first insitinct is not to trust something, that's all you have especially in this industry, so trust your judgement.

We all want to be the exception and be the one time it really was a HOT deal, but remember, "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."