This page contains info on the new craze being let loose on the poor unsuspecting hookers of Australia! It is using Voip, or Skype or any number of other things to set up fake bookings. Yerrrs that’s right folks, girls all over Sydney are being VOIPED!

The new Non Sexually Transmitted Infection (NSTI) coming to a phone near you!

So what's the issue?

There is quite common technology out there which allow people to choose the phone number they wish to send when making a call so now ladies are not able to screen calls. People are also able to send text messages with a fake number and the software they are using also can allow for their voices to be altered. The clever lads who are currently on the mission are choosing to send a phone number which looks like the same phone number as one of the major 5 Star Hotels in the City. The lady sees the number and recognises it, falls for it and BINGO!! Instant time waster erection!

As we speak a few silly buggers from overseas are calling and changing their caller ID (as you would?!?!) spinning a waaaay to good to be true yarn to the ladies, which is usually always believed (ladies are like Fox Mulder.. they want to believe, but not me. I’m to cynical too.. once I found out Big Bird wasn’t real, it was all down hill from there).

So what does this mean?

Well I can imagine some people I have just given the heads up to are madly going to go out and research VOIP and other bits and bobs, so they can get a bit of that fake booking love going on. In the long term what it may mean though is we must by necessity switch to the US system of screening clients. Oooow how the gents are going to luuuuurve that!

How exactly does it work?

Basically it is a phone call made over the internet using things such as Skype. You cannot screen for it and cannot tell it is happening.

Main article: Caller ID spoofing

In public telephone networks, it has for a long while been possible to find out who is calling you by looking at the Caller ID information that is transmitted with the call. There are technologies that transmit this information on landlines, on cellphones and also with VoIP. Unfortunately, there are now technologies (especially associated with VoIP) that allow callers to lie about their identity, and present false names and numbers, which could of course be used as a tool to defraud or harass. Because there are services and gateways that interconnect VoIP with other public phone networks, these false Caller IDs can be transmitted to any phone on the planet, which makes the whole Caller ID information now next to useless.

To use a typical spoofing service, customers pay in advance for a PIN allowing them to make a call for a certain amount of minutes. To begin, customers dial the toll free number given to them by the company and enter their PIN. After which they enter the number they wish to call and the number they wish to appear on the caller ID. Once the customer selects the options, the call is bridged and the person on the other end receives the customer's call. Assuming caller id is used on the receiving end the receiver would normally assume the call was coming from a different phone number (the spoofed number chosen by the caller) than the caller's actual number, thus tricking the receiver into thinking the call was coming from a different individual or organization than the caller's. Most providers work similar to a pre-paid calling card.

The above method is a bit complex; many Caller ID spoofing service providers also allow customers to initiate spoofed calls from a web-based interface. Some providers allow entering the name to display along with the spoofed Caller ID number, but in most parts of the United States for example, whatever name the local phone company has associated with the spoofed Caller ID number is the name that shows up on the Caller ID display.

Using a web-based spoofing service involves creating an account with a provider, logging in to their website and completing a form. Most companies require the following basic fields:

Source number
Destination number
Caller ID number

When the user completes this form and clicks a button to initiate the call, the source number is first called. When the source number line is registered, the destination is then called and bridged together.

Some providers also offer the ability to record calls, change the voice and send SMS text messages.

Taken from Wikipedia

What can be done to protect yourself from it?

The best thing you can do is talk to other ladies and exchange phone numbers of who's calling and what's going on, on a regular basis (daily/weekly). Also with most serious time wasters who never book, remember they get off on making very large grandios promises eg. extended bookings, fancy restaurants etc etc so remeber one of the golden rules... IF IT'S SOUNDS TO GOOD TO BE TRUE SCREEN SCREEN SCREEN.

There are currently a few people thrashing ladies phones using this approach, so please beware and be aware. Undoubtedly it will become more popular and it tends to mainly be men in the US doing it at the moment, but the issue of screening clients in the future is going to be a bigger and bigger issue. Screening is as about as tight as it gets in the US because of the illegality of the sex industry, but also because ladies believe in the US as a sex worker you are doing an extremely dangerous job and the least a man can do is provide you with his real name and other details.

Lucy

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