Here is an interesting report which sheds light on how Chinese hotels recruit females for escort service.

I quote it from the forum to which I can't link because this is a "bad" forum (which I joined 2 days ago in order to gather information for my future post/s about prostitution in China).

I was walking with my girlfriend… She gets a text message and shows it to me. One of the most elegant hotels is asking for help in its new sauna/massage establishment. They want girls who are "pretty and open minded". Pay is good up to 10000 RMB per month. 

Now my GF is relatively conservative. How did the hotel get her cell number to send such an ad? The answer is that they buy lists of numbers from telephone companies and send openly to all the females in the age group they are looking for. 

Can you imagine this happening in the US? Even Craigslist Erotic Services got shut down. 

Crystal you should be careful joining up 'BAD' forums for 'research purposes'.  Sometimes good girls are tempted over to the dark side…

Bored in Melbourne said:

Crystal you should be careful joining up 'BAD' forums for 'research purposes'.  Sometimes good girls are tempted over to the dark side…

Yes, I am aware of dangers – that's why I am "sitting" there silently without revealing myself. 

Anyway, it's not the forum of cannibals where people look out for someone to eat  

Haha… well… I am gathering information from one forum where men share their "exotic" experiences in different countries of the world.

So, I filter out "reports" about Chinese barber shops, KTVs, saunas etc. and want to write a post about it next week.

Funny thing: it took me a lot of time to figure out all weird abbreviations that members of that forum use.

But let's not discuss it in advance – wait for the post…

Crystal, I would love to know the link to the post you are visiting. Im quite intersted. If you wouldn't mind i would like to visit this link for research im doing. my email is[...]

WanderingAmerican said:

Never post your personal email address on an open forum. Just a friendly tip.

Yes, I cut it out 

Anyway – as administrator – I can see e-mail address.

No problem, @giacomo, I will tell you which forum it is.

@ Giacomo

I dont know how long your email address was up before Crystal kidly removed it, but if it was more than an hour, the chances are a spambot has collected it and it will be sold on; I hope it was not your main email account.

Either way, it would be a good idea to change it; if it was a webmail address like hotmail or gmail, just dump it and start a fresh one; if it was an ISP based one, look to see if you can change it.

Often you can change the part before the "@"; do this and set up an auto reject for anything sent to the old version.

If this is not possible, use a program like "Mailwasher" to prefilter your mail box before downloading.

You may not know for a few weeks if the details were collected, so that gives you some time to start a new address before dumping the old one; personally, I keep 3-4 webmail addresses, so I can easily dump one if it gets too bad.

How bad can it get?? One retailer I wont use again sold their email list off and it got bought by various spammers, before I managed to set up a new account and let everyone I wanted to contact me know the new address I was getting 500+ spam messages per day.