Five red flags when contacting a profile

Most listings on this site are run by real people. A small fraction are not — and the patterns that catch them out are remarkably consistent. Here are five concrete things to look for before you commit to a meeting or a payment.

1. The reverse image search comes back loud

Right-click the main photo, save it, drop it into Google Images or TinEye. Real profiles' photos appear here and on at most one or two adjacent directories. If the same shot shows up on twenty different sites in five countries, you're looking at a scraped image, not the person you'd meet.

2. They refuse a short verification call

A 30-second voice call is the cheapest filter there is. Real profiles take them. Scam profiles will give you a thousand reasons not to: shy, sleeping, foreign SIM, phone broken. Any of those once is fine. Two in a row is the signal.

3. They want a deposit before you've met

Pre-payment via gift cards, crypto, MoneyGram or any irreversible rail is the universal scam tell. Reputable profiles get paid in person, in cash or via TWINT at the meeting. If the conversation starts at "send a deposit first", it ends there too.

4. The price is half what the neighbour is charging

Browse five or ten listings in the same city. The rates cluster in a range. A new profile priced 50% below that range is either a scam, a bait-and-switch, or a working condition you don't want to be part of. Treat outlier-low pricing as a question, not a discount.

5. The description is a wall of keywords

Real profiles write a few sentences in their own voice. Scam profiles paste a paragraph that lists every service and every city in Switzerland. If it reads like SEO bait, it probably is.

Bottom line: a 60-second reverse image search and a 30-second voice call filters out the overwhelming majority of bad actors. Everything else is paranoia tax.