In 2015, when I was still fairly new to this, a man contacted me in a panic. He had already been scammed twice that same month. The first time, he had paid a deposit to a "agency" for a woman whose photos looked like they belonged in a magazine, and no one ever arrived. The second time, someone did arrive, but she was nothing like the pictures, and when he hesitated, two men appeared in the hotel corridor. He got out, shaken and lighter by a good amount of cash. By the time he reached me, he did not want a companion at all anymore. He just wanted to know how a person could tell what was real.
I remember sitting with my phone that evening, thinking about his question, because it was the same question I had been quietly building an answer to for months. I had already started keeping my own small rules, born from watching how the fakes operated. That night I wrote them down properly for the first time. Those notes became the process I still use today, and I want to walk you through it exactly, the way it actually happens, not a tidy list.
It starts before anyone is even shortlisted
When a woman approaches me wanting to join my network, the first thing I do is nothing glamorous at all. I ask to meet her. In person, in a public place, a hotel lobby or a quiet cafe, on my time, at my choosing. I have had women agree instantly and women go silent the moment I say it. The silence tells me everything. Someone who is exactly who she says she is has no reason to avoid a coffee.
At that meeting I am not interviewing for charm. I am checking one thing above all: is the person sitting across from me the same person in the photographs she sent. It sounds obvious, but the entire scam industry in this city runs on that single gap between the photo and the person. I have sat across from women whose faces did not match at all, who were counting on me being too polite to say so. I am not too polite. I thank them, and that is the end of it.
The photographs are taken by me, not sent to me
Here is the moment that changed everything about how I work. Early on, I accepted a set of gorgeous professional photos from a woman who had passed the in-person meeting. She was real, she was lovely. But when I looked at the images later, something felt off. I ran one through a reverse image search, the same tool I now tell every client to use, and the photo appeared on four other sites under three other names. They were not her photos at all. She was real, but she had bought a stranger's images to look more polished.
That was the day I made my rule: I take the photographs myself, unfiltered, or they do not go in the portfolio. It is more work. It is slower. But it means the woman a client sees is the woman who arrives, down to the small details a filter would smooth away. I would rather show a real photograph than a perfect one, because the perfect one is exactly what the scammers use.
The live call, the step I will never skip
Between a booking request and the meeting, there is one thing I insist on that quietly ends almost every attempt at fraud: a live video call. Not a photo, not a voice note, a live call where I can see the person in real time. I ask every client to do the same with anyone they consider, me included.
I remember a client who was certain he had found someone wonderful through another contact and only wanted my opinion. I told him to ask for a two minute live call before he paid anything. He came back an hour later. The moment he asked, the "woman" produced excuse after excuse, the camera was broken, she was shy, she was travelling. Then the messages stopped entirely. A real person hops on a call. A scam cannot, because there is no real person behind it. That single question, can we do a quick live call, has saved more of my clients money than any advice I have ever given.
Turning people away is the part that protects you
The uncomfortable truth is that I have turned away far more women than I have ever accepted. Some were lovely and simply did not want the level of verification I require. Some were not who they claimed. A few, over the years, were clearly fronting for other people, and those I ended immediately. Every no I have said is the reason a client can trust every yes.
I think about that first frightened man from 2015 often. He did, eventually, let me arrange an evening for him, months later, once he trusted the process. He verified everything himself, exactly the way I had described. It went perfectly, because there was nothing hidden to go wrong. He is still in touch, years on. That is what verification actually buys, not just safety, but the ability to relax and enjoy something that should be enjoyable in the first place.
What I ask you to do, every single time
I would rather lose a booking than have you take a risk, so I tell every client the same things I built from that first year. Ask for a live video call before you commit to anyone, me included. Run a reverse image search on any photos you are sent, and walk away if they appear under other names. Never pay a full deposit upfront to an untraceable method. Meet only at a reputable venue, never an address you were simply sent to. And trust the feeling in your gut, because by the time something feels wrong, it usually is.
If you want to understand the wider picture, the prices, the laws, the specific scams and how they work, I have written it all down in my complete Dubai escort guide, and broken down the specific Dubai escort scams to watch for. And if you would like to see my portfolio, the real photographs of real people I have personally verified, you are welcome to request it.