The big scam agency thread

[kimmy86]

Like many others I think this 'company' is a scam but cant find any information on any blog sites about it. Has anyone had any dealings with this place?? Any info greatly appreciated.

[amy]

Kimmy, the post you made earlier was moved to this thread (as has this one) because the site is clearly a scam. Responses are above.

[happy bunny]

HI,
I have just been offered a 'Date'  and on going work but in return i have to pay 250 pounds for advertising .The agency is called Delightful companions.Has anyone any experience with them? thanks alot.

[MissMillie]

Hon, from my experience anyone/ or agency asking you for money is generally a scam and not worth bothering with... xx

[xw5]

I have just been offered a 'Date'  and on going work but in return i have to pay 250 pounds for advertising .The agency is called Delightful companions.Has anyone any experience with them? thanks alot.

Complete scam. Some people have not been as wise as you were to ask first. As the money is paid, future bookings vanish and suddenly they're not so interested in talking to you.

Any 'agency' that wants money from you up front is a scam. Despite what the scammers say, there is no real market for straight male escorting or non-sexual escorting.

[cindy]

Quite right too. If it sounds too good to be true then it usually is.  We are all mostly prozzies on here, if there was an easier way, dont you think we would be in there first, lolol?!

[Reds]

I stumbled upon this site  http://www.annab.net/ wondered what people make of it? as ive been looking around but havent seen anything like it, i looked at the rates and they were astronomical sorry if being gullible but could you ever really expect to earn that much money from bookings?

Redsx

[xw5]

Not very often, I suspect.

From an owner's point of view,running an agency this way means you don't have to as much compared to running one for mere mortals. Getting say a third of 'a lot' may not happen very often, but that's ok.

From the staff's point of view, getting say two thirds of 'a lot' is going to happen far less frequently, and that's less ok, particularly as they don't want you working anywhere else.

[Reds]

hmmm yes see what your saying even if its genuine the bookings could be few and far between where you get one lump sum, it just seems like a hell of alot of money and my initial gut reaction was telling me this has got to be some sort of scam, but i guess there are agencys out there who do only operate in this way and cater for certain clientel although doubt theres many and bet their choosy as hell!!!

[Anika Mae]

I have a friend who used to be on the books of an agency with that kind of price scale, as well as requiring membership fees from clients. The agency fee was high so she didn't come away with much more than I do but she didn't want her pictures publicly viewable and she finds snobby clients easy to deal with. She only ever got one booking (for an hour, in Brussels, with a guy who made a deal for her to stay overnight without telling the agent). That might have just been because the agent wouldn't put her pictures up though and to be fair they weren't that good.

[PaulS]

Hi there.

I have been accepted work as a male companion with International Companion Services (ICS). I purely want to be a companion and have apparent work starting next week. I have read through some of the topics on here and am worried this may be a scam. They want ?299 from me on the day of my first client. Is this right and has anyone heard of this company?

Failing that, does anyone know of a genuine company?

Big thanks, Paul

[amy]

It was a toss-up which thread to bung this one in, but warning others of scams has to be paramount. Paul, I would also suggest you read this and this, keep your money in your pocket and start picking your way back to the drawing board.

[PaulS]

Thanks for this. Thought it was a bit too good to be true!

[PaulS]

As this appears to be a scam, here's some more info. to warn other people!

I lost my job last week and advised ICS I would not be able to afford the 'registration fee' in full and asked if I could maybe pay as much as possible and then the rest after my first client - the person I was speaking to attitude changed straight away. Later that day a 'foreign' lady called me offering me two clients this week. I explained about thew problem meeting the fee and she offered me the chance to pay ?250 upfront and ?49 after my first client. This didn't seem much of a compromise to me.

I was offered a meeting with a 'mostly' English-speaking lady on the Monday and a Spanish lady on the Tuesday who spoke good English. I almost sold my laptop and iPod to raise the cash - so glad I haven't.

I have emailed them now and said I believe they may be a scam and withdraw my 'application'. Their website is as follows:

http://internationalcompanionservices.com/index.html

Would be interested to see if anyone else has heard of or had dealings with this company.

[ray]

Hi all, I am new here and have recentl given my details to a company that claims to do companionship only, they are called www.neverbelonely.com , I was wondering if anyone has come accross them and are they to be trusted as they want ?350 for advertising they say but when I said no they said they could reduce it to ?150. I havent paid them yet still undecided.

please can anyone help.

kind regards

ray