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Originally Posted by BullDog211
Here is the scenario. Found a cute little thing on BP. The only way to contact her is through Instant Message. She requested I view her $25.00 Cam show to verify.... She insisted She was a "Real Escort" and this was how she verified people.
Here is my question. Have any of you EVER heard of this kind of Verification and it not being a SCAM??
I've been around the hobby for years and have always heard this kind of thing was completely bogus.
Can any one out there verify, this verification process??
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Question: If Skype is free, why would you need to pay $25 to video verify? Do you pay $25 to a provider for her to screen you by phone or for any other screening for that matter?
When in doubt, always apply Ockham's razor:
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Ockham’s razor, also spelled Occam’s razor, also called the law of economy, or law of parsimony, is the principle stated by William of Ockham (1285–1347), a scholastic, that Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate; “Plurality should not be posited without necessity.”
The principle gives precedence to simplicity; of two competing theories, the simplest explanation of an entity is to be preferred. (Emphasis added)The principle is also expressed “Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.” (Emphasis added)
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Applying Ockham's razor in any situation where there are two or more possible explanations will give you the right answer nine times out of ten. Doctors use it when making a diagnosis. A very close friend of mine is an M.D./Ph.D. hematopathologist and when doing clinical rounds in med school 25 years ago, the chief resident advised the group of students that "[w]hen you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras", meaning that when making a diagnosis, they should go with the most common condition that fits those symptoms, not the the most exotic or unusual condition. The phrase "if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck" is also just another variation of Ockham's razor.
So, to apply this to the hobby . . . if a provider wants
you to pay
her to screen you using a communication mode that is readily available for free, what's the most likely explanation?
1. That it's a scam; or
2. That she is has discovered this great, new, cutting-edge way to screen that no one else has ever thought of?
Some things never change.
Video Verification?
For $50 extra I wanna watch you watching!! 
