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To ask how to get DD off an escort agency?

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CKapron · 28/04/2025 18:41

Does anyone know how to fix this? DD(22) is being bombarded with phonecalls and WA messages from men asking what her rate is and if she's still working.
One of them said he'd found her number on a website so she googled her own number and found it on an escort agency. We're assuming it's a typo 😕 (she isn't an escort, she has a job).
She doesn't want to change her number, what else can she do?

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Cloudyvibes · 28/04/2025 18:43

I take it you have contacted the agency to take the number down?

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CKapron · 28/04/2025 18:48

Cloudyvibes · 28/04/2025 18:43

I take it you have contacted the agency to take the number down?

She hasn't - that was my first instinct but she seems to think it will cause trouble for her. My view is there's some girl wondering why she isn't getting any work and will be glad to know why!

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ACynicalDad · 28/04/2025 18:49

I'd contact them as fast as you can so it doesn't end up elsewhere.

PonyPatter44 · 28/04/2025 18:51

CKapron · 28/04/2025 18:48

She hasn't - that was my first instinct but she seems to think it will cause trouble for her. My view is there's some girl wondering why she isn't getting any work and will be glad to know why!

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How could it cause trouble for her? They've just made a mistake on their website, she tells them to remove her number they do it. Noone is in trouble!

Cloudyvibes · 28/04/2025 18:52

CKapron · 28/04/2025 18:48

She hasn't - that was my first instinct but she seems to think it will cause trouble for her. My view is there's some girl wondering why she isn't getting any work and will be glad to know why!

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cant see how it would cause trouble for her? She needs to contact them or change her number.

purplecorkheart · 28/04/2025 18:52

Contact the site and ask them to remove her number. Mention GDPR.

PinotDragon86 · 28/04/2025 18:56

Are you sure someone hasn't done it maliciously? Because if that's the case I'm pretty sure that's illegal. If its a genuine mistake then contact the agency and speak to them about the typo and have the number removed.
I know you said she doesn't want to change numbers but I would seriously reconsider as god knows how many people have now got access to her personal number....

CultureAlienationBoredomandDespair · 28/04/2025 18:58

The number of people who come on here moaning about situations where they’re not prepared to do the most basic thing to change baffles me.

Ihateboris · 28/04/2025 19:09

Why doesn't she want to contact the agency? Why does she think it would cause trouble for her? Surely they'd be grateful you got in touch as it must be affecting their business?

Justfreedom · 28/04/2025 19:23

Change her phone number.

EnjoythemoneyJane · 28/04/2025 19:30

Well if she won’t contact the agency, how the heck else does she think she’ll be able to get it taken down?!

Tell her to do the ridiculously obvious thing, OP - or if she’s shy or anxious, do it for her.

Hufflemuff · 28/04/2025 19:34

Fucking Nora... how does she think this will magically resolve itself? She doesn't want to change her number, doesn't want to contact the agency - is wishing it away going to work?

OctopusFriend · 28/04/2025 19:35

CultureAlienationBoredomandDespair · 28/04/2025 18:58

The number of people who come on here moaning about situations where they’re not prepared to do the most basic thing to change baffles me.

Oh dear lord, I was just thinking the same. It's like a wet lettuce pandemic.

Ihateboris · 28/04/2025 19:35

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

megacat · 28/04/2025 19:40

Ihateboris · 28/04/2025 19:35

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

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.

NormasArse · 28/04/2025 19:40

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…

Ihateboris · 28/04/2025 19:41

megacat · 28/04/2025 19:40

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.

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Exactly

PinkPootle75 · 28/04/2025 19:43

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

JustGotToKeepOnKeepingOn · 28/04/2025 19:47

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

Addictforanex · 28/04/2025 19:48

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?

CountryQueen · 28/04/2025 19:52

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

Tomikka · 28/04/2025 19:54

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

ChickenBananas · 28/04/2025 19:57

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

SpottedDonkey · 28/04/2025 19:58

PinkPootle75 · 28/04/2025 19:43

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

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…

MamaLenny · 28/04/2025 19:59

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?