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Porn Scams

When surfing for sex sites online you are prey to devious methods to hold you on site and obtain money from you. Consumer information is a must to use sex sites on the Web.

When you hit a sex site, use this checklist:

A good sex site:

will be clear about what it offers. It will be detailed about service, what you get for your money and how much services will cost you over set periods.

will look professional. It will be easy and attractive to navigate, showing that the business has gone to some effort. The domain name will be owned, rather than free and the business will be easy to contact via a (working!) email and phone number. This makes the service more accountable.

will have unique pictures or products. Original content or merchandise indicates a successful business, and offers you something others can't.

A bad sex site:

will not be clear about what it offers. Do you know what you will be getting per pound? Or how much the service will cost you over a certain period? How much does postage and packaging cost? Is the merchandise guaranteed? If you're unsure, write to them. If you don't get a quick reply, don't bother with the site.

will not look professional. It might look like its been hammered together quickly to make money fast. The domain name is probably a free site, and thus harder to trace and easier for scammers to dump. The site probably has no contact details, or if it does, they don't work. The site looks poorly maintained and hasn't been updated in a long time. If they don't care about presentation, do they care about a quality service to you?

will use dirtier tricks like re-directing you to other sites, or to lists which just lead to the same few sex sites, despite what the list description is. Not only is this annoying, but it shows that the service is willing to play clever tricks to get you to sign up, rather than rely on the quality of their service.

will have pictures or products you've seen before. If you have then its likely the webmaster has just taken free pictures from the Web and set up a fake service.

will have illegal content. Though it is not the governments job to decide what we see or what kind of sex we like or have, there are laws you need to be aware of to avoid breaking them or being caught. Being ignorant is no defence in court. Dealing with service providers who work outside the law means that not only might you be committing a crime and be prosecuted, but that you might also be funding other criminal activities which aren't obvious, or become a victim yourself because the people you are dealing with are not business-like and there will be no legal recourse to help you get your money back.

will ask you to sign up to an AVS (Adult Verification Service)? See AVS scam

will offer you the Evidence Eliminator product See Evidence Eliminator scam

See http://www.bytescanada.com/en/frauds.htm for more information on online frauds.

See http://www.ynotmasters.com/news/ynews/issues/101702/page3.html for a news story about how credit card companies are trying to deal with sex sites and fraud.

If you encounter any dirty tricks or scams on sites we link to, please leave a comment in the Give your opinion section on the link page.

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