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AVS scam

AVS is usually used as a quick and easy way to steal your money. There are sex sites that ask you to pay to sign up for an AVS service and ask you to sign for membership and pay more money once you did. These sites owners know that once you've spend money on signing up to an AVS, you are interested enough to pay for more. There are even sites that ask you to pay to sign up with an AVS and once you do they link you to another page where you had to sign up with another AVS in order to enter.

There is no difference between joining an adult site by paying £20 to get lots of porn and joining an AVS for £20 and getting lots of porn. Best not to risk paying to be verified as an adult. The whole idea is stupid anyway - kids under 18 will know how to get hold of porn if they really want to see it, and the sex sites don't usually care who's seeing their stuff.

The AVS scam can be used in another way too. It works like this:

• Put up your site somewhere that allows adult hosting.
• Signup for AVS service from one of the many AVS services out there. The ideal one is one that has a high per-signup payout.
• Put up an ad in an online personals area such as match.com or friendfinders etc., paying for the upgraded service (chances are you will easily make this small amount back).
• Respond to peoples ads, and to people who send you inquiries in a very friendly and attractive way. Be the perfect match. Then make up some story about how too many under 18 years old people were contacting you and you had to protect your sexy pictures with an AVS.
• If the person is really interested they will go ahead and sign up for the AVS so they can see the scammers "sexy pix", thus giving the scammer (who may or may not even be female), money in the process (like $15 per signup).

Here are some examples of scam personal web-pages: websexnetwork.com and elite-mates.com

Here is an example of a scam personals ad:

Over all, the AVS (Adult Verification System) seems a nice little way to make money, and doesn't make any difference to whether children see porn or not.

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