Great points that basically tell you to use your instinct. If i were to add to that, I do my homework and funny how everything comes full circle, and you stick with your regulars. What I do is reverse google the pictures. Fakers have definitely become more skilled though for turning up blanks - WHICH is another alarm bell. If they highly reputable they probably have doubled up on a post, or the scanvenger sites pick up thier pics in a repackaged format to drive traffic. But lots of ways to check , like obviously initially just right click and reverse google. The LL watermark shuts it down basically, but so do hidden water marks. THen save the picture, use a simple Windows paint and crop it out. Or if you cant save the picture, screenshot it and crop it out.
Then i do a secondary test. I google in quotations the phone/contact number. Google however may not be the best for this, but try it first. Second use the phone number in Pipl.com. (as US number easier pickoffs. Most are using VoiPs now, the fake ones. I have a list of local numbers that are allocated to Voip for MB if anyone wants, well i have every 204 and then the following three digits where they are assigned. Ex. 204 292- xxxx it would be Rogers Wireless.
Thirdly I usually run the phone number through that verification site..which has a few different shells. It tells you using picture and number cross overs, which pics have showed up at multiple numbers, and goes back like 5 years. All the old BP photos still exist somewhere on line and likely were captured. Picked off some obvious ones that clearly landed on polar opposite sides of the battle. Scams, and those who seek to find them. WOnt post the site but if you are curious you can IM me and ill show you. Long time ago I went through backpage, before it shut, and had literally screen shot edited the Facebook ad pages, with Big RED ex's over those that i easily proved. It got complicated surrounding me posting it somewhere, so i didnt.
FInally like the previous poster, it really is pretty straight forward. Be detective on the pictures. OVer the years too, read you guys here, but never participated as my opinions would be too glossy for the 3 or 4 i like, because for my niche..it would be seeking all the praise...like a glowing woman after she finishes. But I fricken know who has done some righteous kinky..things that well..fit me perfect.
ANd finally..and if they are legit, they dont want to waste piles of time while you investigate with leading texts. I simply say..dont show your face, but a body part that is obviously ...hair..tattoo..a hang-nail...whatever that can be replicated, except hold up two fingers which i will suggest which ones, with a tiny piece of paper saying their phone number or something. EVERYONE basically has a cell phone with a camera in the world...and not like days of old where they could run out of film. Of course I do the same..with two fingers...or whatever....with whateef they want. SOme of them smart two...if they ask to see the "junk" with their name etc ...which other people can...most definitely CANNOT..cant be their idea and cant accept it. Blah blah blah...that said I did come on here bc I wish there was a way to find particular things easier. I have one fantasy that i would like to happen...that ill just post and ask elsewhere. Peace.