Phone number research - confusing results

[bklife19]

These days, with the number of freaks and flakes out there, I think anyone who escorts or hires escorts or hooks up online needs to be somewhat of a mini private investigator. Purely in the interest of protecting oneself.

 

Sometimes Google will bring up really odd results. For example, say I find a hung top RentMen provider I'm interested in. I plug his phone number into Google and I'll find EscortFish ads from 3 years ago in a different city for a transwoman of a different race. This has happened on several occasions and I just assume the escort is a scammer and move on.

 

But how and why are the same phone numbers (which I assume to be free GoogleVoice numbers) being used by escorts of different genders and races many years apart? Has anyone else run into this?

[MrMattBig]

If it's a VoiP number, it's many escorts will use such numbers, it's actually not that off the odds for that number to then be grabbed up by another provider.

This would explain the results related to a different person.

[GTMike]

These days, with the number of freaks and flakes out there, I think anyone who escorts or hires escorts or hooks up online needs to be somewhat of a mini private investigator. Purely in the interest of protecting oneself.

 

Sometimes Google will bring up really odd results. For example, say I find a hung top RentMen provider I'm interested in. I plug his phone number into Google and I'll find EscortFish ads from 3 years ago in a different city for a transwoman of a different race. This has happened on several occasions and I just assume the escort is a scammer and move on.

 

But how and why are the same phone numbers (which I assume to be free GoogleVoice numbers) being used by escorts of different genders and races many years apart? Has anyone else run into this?

Hahaha. I had that happen a few months ago. (Though i'm not sure if the woman was trans or not but she was of a different "race").

[bendable2019]

Does it really work all the time?

[hypothetically]

These days, with the number of freaks and flakes out there, I think anyone who escorts or hires escorts or hooks up online needs to be somewhat of a mini private investigator. Purely in the interest of protecting oneself.

 

Sometimes Google will bring up really odd results. For example, say I find a hung top RentMen provider I'm interested in. I plug his phone number into Google and I'll find EscortFish ads from 3 years ago in a different city for a transwoman of a different race. This has happened on several occasions and I just assume the escort is a scammer and move on.

 

But how and why are the same phone numbers (which I assume to be free GoogleVoice numbers) being used by escorts of different genders and races many years apart? Has anyone else run into this?

 

Do whatever you need to do to feel “safe” but truthfully, you’re doing a lot for what ultimately won’t protect you from meeting a “freak” or “flake.” Not even entirely sure what you’re looking for? A background check? A resume? Photos of the provider getting baptized? A full name? None of which would still confirm whether he was a freak or flake, as you say. Guess what? Providers with good track records can be kooky and flaky also. Then what?

 

Use the resources readily available (this forum) and seek commentary from fellow members. Phone number verification isn’t...idk? Productive?

 

I would imagine this would be more of a concern for escorts who blindly meet clients, every single day. We don’t even know whose answering the door.

Edited July 3, 2019 by hypothetically

[+ Charlie]

Last year I got my first iPhone, which came with a phone number attached by the service provider. But the number apparently belonged previously to someone else. Every now and then I get a phone call from a potential employer trying to contact this person (it has obviously been in their files for some time), and occasionally a call entirely in Spanish. It's not surprising that someone, like an escort, would discard a number when he stopped using it for a specific purpose, and it would be reissued to someone else, particularly within a packed area code with high turnover.

[jayjaycali]

With a new burner number I used to get some pretty interesting texts for the previous owner.

 

Numbers are hard. Sometimes just the quality of interaction, and how the person writes or expresses themselves or how the chat goes can say a lot about them.

[+ Hoover42]

My most recent cell number was apparently previously owned by a black baptist minister with a huge extended family and lots of bad debt.

 

You should see my blocked number list on that phone; it must be over a hundred entries now.

[maninsoma]

I will typically search for a phone number when an ad catches my eye, but most of the time I get nothing of substance. It only takes a few seconds to search, though.

 

If I get an old match from a completely different escort, I don't pay it much mind. But if there is a recent ad posted elsewhere for someone else with the same phone number, I figure one of two things is going on: Either the ad is a fake or the phone number is that of a booking agent, not the escort. In neither case do I proceed -- although there has been one exception and that was because the guy was also discussed here so I knew he was legit.