Strip Scams

If there’s any exchange of money somewhere for something, you can bet someone sat down to try to think up a way to run a scam on it. Some scams go nowhere and others end up being huge like the Nigeria scam e-mails that people continue to fall for every single day for some bizarre reason. Naturally, in the world of stripper where thousands of dollars get jammed into G strings every single day, there has to be one or two scams rolling around, so let’s take a look at a few of the more amusing ones as a public service.

Florida cops had to deal with a scam recently involving fake job ads for stripper drivers. In a nutshell, people responded to an ad looking for drivers. You would pick up girls and take them to various jobs and earn up to $5,000 a week. All for just driving around hot chicks who would be taking their clothes off. Sounds totally legit.

Alas, the same in this instance is the fact that the jobs simply didn’t exist. People replied to the ad and then were rooked into wiring $865 to the fake company to pay for the vehicles they’d be driving. If this sounds completely ridiculous to you, it is. But at least 43 people fell for it, meaning the scammers raked in over $37,000. Not bad for total bullshit. Although getting charged 335 felony counts may have dampered things a bit for them.

Another popular scam, often visited upon tourists abroad, involves wandering into a club that promised a lot of illicit fun, only to find it’s actually a shithole. A shithole with a lot of shady dudes inside who insist you pay $200 for a Pepsi and absolutely no tits or music or anything. Police in London, England have implemented text message warnings to send out to anyone with Bluetooth devices in neighborhoods with these kinds of clubs. The warnings let you know that the club will set you back $5 to get in the door but $500 to get back out again.

A similar scam elsewhere in the world is the cheap drink scam, where some hustler outside will try to sell you on a club based on some super cheap drink prices. You go in, have a seat and order a beer only to discover the entertainment is about as sexy as an episode of Golden Girls. You go to pay for your cheap drink and suddenly the bill is 10 times what the guy outside said, the reason being the drink is cheap, but the show costs a shitload. If you try to protest, you get to meet the goons who’ll convince you it’s a good idea to pay.

Another favorite for drinks is, of course, the girl who asks you to buy her a drink while you chat. Your beer may be $5 but it’s not so bad to have a topless chick sit and chat with you at the cost of another $5. Naturally when you get the bill, you’ll find out the lime and soda she ordered inexplicably costs $200 and there’s not much you can do about it except pay up or get tossed out in the alley with a broken nose and no wallet.

While the drink scam seems like something more apt to happen overseas, it gets tossed around locally more than you’d think, especially if you’re in a large group running a tab and have a few girls hanging out with you. Before you know it, you paid for 6 campari and sodas that cost $50 a piece.

Bringing stripping and scamming into the internet age are a handful of crafty spammers who devised a virtual stripper program designed to help them crack CAPTCHA codes. CAPTCHA codes are those annoying little security features on most websites that show you a distorted group of letters and ask you to retype them in a box. Regular automatic programs can’t perform that duty, so a real human needs to type them in.  But if you get the stripper virus from somewhere, a hot girl appears on your screen and offers to get naked if you type some out one of those codes. You do as asked and, oops, there’s a glitch. She’ll ask you again to type out a new code. Each time you do, you’re cracking something, somewhere for that hacker, but you’re never getting nay closer to that virtual boob you so greatly desire. It’s sad when people use the promise of nudity towards nefarious ends.

In a nutshell, when it comes to naked ladies you don’t know very well and the exchange of money, always keep a close eye on your wallet, just to be safe.