Las Vegas Question...but not really.

[b2bailey]

We are completing our second week here in Vegas. After seeing NUMEROUS and frequent ads -- mostly on trucks carrying signs -- telling us to call a certain phone number for HOT GIRLS -- my husband said to me: "Perhaps I am naive, but what is it that you are getting when you order up a HOT GIRL?"

My reply was that I'm thinking it is a 'lap dance' or some other non-touching event.

Am I being naive?

Because we are both accountants, this conversation actually evolved into a discussion about what their Profit and Loss would look like -- and I came to the conclusion that it is a money laundering scheme.

Also, I wish there was a way to just STOP those people who hand out those cards on the strip for similar services. A couple of the guys just about got in our faces with them.

 

[Timeshare Von]

If it is to advertise "calling" hot girls, it very well may be a phone sex service. Most use phone numbers that bill you on a minute basis and is not a cash transaction so not a money laundering scheme.

 

[PigsDad]

Am I being naive?

Yes.

 

[Fern Modena]

Most likely the moving billboards are for a massage service. You know, you call for a massage and are told it is (not sure, but a couple hundred dollars at least, probably more these days). Soon a "hot chick" in skimpy clothes (maybe with a coat over it if you are at a big hotel) arrives. You are so excited!!!

Ya big dummy. She's there to give you a Massage. Nothing more. If she did more, she'd get her company busted right out of business.

Now there are outcall massage businesses where you can find that kind of girl, probably in the phone book, definitely in the nasty newspapers and from some of the card slappers. But never from the billboard gals.

Fern

 

[dougp26364]

A couple of male co-workers who once worked in my department went to Vegas without their wives. They ordered one of those girls from the porn slappers on the street. It's simply a front for prostitution and nothing more. The girls arrive with their own portable credit card scanner for the customers convenience.

 

[Fern Modena]

Card Slappers...I feel sorry for them, in a way, cause that is the best job they can get. Yeah, I know most of them are illegal. And trying to feed families.

Generally if you try to walk further away from them they won't move out to meet you. And don't look at them. And if they still hold it at you, say "Gracias, no."

I generally don't see them because I park directly at the hotel I need, or walk between connected places inside rather than outside.

Fern

 

[b2bailey]

If it is to advertise "calling" hot girls, it very well may be a phone sex service. Most use phone numbers that bill you on a minute basis and is not a cash transaction so not a money laundering scheme.

A money laundering scheme uses a 'legitimate' business front to deposit larger sums of money, in cash, than what the business generates for income. Once the dirty money (usually from drugs) has been deposited into a legitimate business bank account, then it is 'clean'. Thus the term money laundering.
(At least this is my understanding of the way it most often works.)

 

[ScoopKona]

We are completing our second week here in Vegas. After seeing NUMEROUS and frequent ads -- mostly on trucks carrying signs -- telling us to call a certain phone number for HOT GIRLS -- my husband said to me: "Perhaps I am naive, but what is it that you are getting when you order up a HOT GIRL?"

You are getting into a classic scam, that's what.

You call, and pay that company some amount of money, and then a girl will show up at your hotel with two big burly men.

The girl is willing to do a striptease for you, if you pay her. Paying the company was just to get the girl and the two big burly men to your door. So then you negotiate with her, and pay her for what amounts to an egregiously expensive lap dance.

Girl will then insist on an exorbitant amount of money, and the two big burly guys make sure you pay, one way or another.

I'm told it ends up being $500 for a lap dance you could get at a LV strip club for $20.

 

[Timeshare Von]

A money laundering scheme uses a 'legitimate' business front to deposit larger sums of money, in cash, than what the business generates for income. Once the dirty money (usually from drugs) has been deposited into a legitimate business bank account, then it is 'clean'. Thus the term money laundering.
(At least this is my understanding of the way it most often works.)

Understand that B2 but it is also my understanding that for a "business" to do money laundering, they must be taking in some amount of cash for their servides. If this group were doing phone sex, the charges (income) would be going directly into their bank accounts via credit card or telephone transactions . . . no cash is exchanged. That was what I was trying to say.

Seems there are all sorts of ways for people to make money on the sex industry in Vegas . . . big surprise!

 

[djs]

Now if this business is located outside of Clark County (I believe there's one other) and you go to their place of business it is "legitimate" in the sense that the services offered likely are not illegal.

 

[ScoopKona]

Now if this business is located outside of Clark County (I believe there's one other) and you go to their place of business it is "legitimate" in the sense that the services offered likely are not illegal.

Hello?

It's a "stripper at your door" service. Not prostitution. The two big burly guys are there to ensure no sex happens during the "stripper at your door" show.

I haven't indulged, but I know a Timeshare OPC here in Las Vegas who HAS indulged.

It's a "stripper at your door" service.

It's a "stripper at your door" service.

It's a "stripper at your door" service.

It's a "stripper at your door" service.

ONCE MORE, JUST TO BE PERFECTLY CLEAR, it's a "stripper at your door" service.