To ask how to get DD off an escort agency?

She has 3 options:

• Put up with it
• Change her number
• Contact the agency.

I had a similar thing once though it was a psychotherapist who had put their number on their website wrong, making it my number. Ring and tell them! They'll want to know and it's the fastest way to stop it. Why would it cause trouble? It's just a phone number!

Or maybe the Op saw the messages?

But if she was escorting and didn't want OP to know, she wouldn't moan to OP about all these nuisance calls, right?

Seems more likely some creepy guy (ex or someone she rejected) has done this to make trouble for her. Or creepy woman, even (does she have a boyfriend whose ex is bitter or something?).

Right. Well I would because it's always best to be direct and get to the root of the problem. They're not going to think you're a customer. Changing numbers is a pain.

Are you sure someone’s not put it on there maliciously? The modern version of writing their number on the toilet wall in the local dive bar.

I realise that's a possibility yes, but not everyone is comfortable contacting an escort agency, even for that. I wouldn't want to. I'd rather have the hassle of changing number!

Your daughter’s reaction to this is….odd.

Surely the agency would rather know and fix it than lose custom.

Wouldn't you contact the agency, tell them the error? They're losing business.

I think I'd just change my number!

Order of likelihood in my mind:
1 - she’s working for them and doesn’t want to tell you
2 - someone has done this maliciously
3 - it’s a mistake.

call me cynical but it’s handy how the mistaken number belongs to a 22 year old woman, not a 55 year old man.

My first thought was also that someone has done it maliciously to her.

If she was working for the agency and didn't want to admit it then why would op know anything about it?

This.

Are you absolutely sure she’s telling you the whole truth, OP?

If I were getting such calls, and I had no involvement with the agency, I would assume they had made a genuine mistake and I would contact them to get my number taken down immediately. That is the obvious course of action which anyone would take. The fact that she isn’t doing it seems odd…

Surely the answer to her not contacting them is that she actually did work for them? She's hardy gonna say oh yeah mam I'm a prozzie on the side is she

It could be many reasons, the one not mentioned yet is reuse of an old inactive number

Depending on how long she has had the number it may have been previously used by an escort, deregistered and reissued - the agency will want to know and take the number down

Mistake with the wrong number on the website - the agency will want to know and correct it

Malicious - someone has deliberately registered her - the agency will want to be kept out of that, unlikely to give any details but would co-operate with the police
(Escorting is legal, but can sway either side of the law and an agency will want to minimise potential trouble with the law)

The other potential is that she is registered with an agency, but how likely that is could also depend on how the subject was brought up - she wouldn’t highlight the fact if she had secretly registered herself

An option is to set the phone to reject unknown callers not within the contact list (which will also block businesses etc) or for a level of call screening

Yeah she doesn’t want to contact them in front of you because she’s been “escorting” for cash.

Maybe I have a suspicious mind but I wouldn’t be so quick to believe it is a mistake, especially since she doesn’t seem to want to have the agency correct it - that’s very odd.

Funny how the error turned out to the be the number of a 22 year old woman…. And not a 65 year old man.

But if you do genuinely believe her - then could she have an enemy who has done this to her maliciously?

I’d just assume she was working for them but didn’t want to admit it!

Her response is odd OP.
maybe she has worked for them before

Exactly

Tell her she has to phone them.

If you do it, you may find out that she actually registered with them and is now regretting it…

I would have thought this is the most obvious reason, since when did having a job stop someone escorting on the side? You’re being naive OP.

Just a thought...are you sure she isn't actually working for the agency ? Just wondering why she's so reluctant to contact them.