New stripper scam: Don’t give your cell phone number to a pole professional
Monday, September 28th, 2009
Imagine this scenario, gentlemen. You're at the strip club watching some fabulous racks in an amateur wet t-shirt contest. A stripper sits down next to you and starts chatting you up. She tells you that she's there to cheer her friend, who is one of the amateurs. Life is good. Later, when you're ready to leave, your new stripper aquantence smiles and says, "Aren't you going to ask me for my phone number?"
You assumed she was just being friendly to you because you're a customer, and you didn't expect this question at all. This kind of things doesn't really happen, even to a big pimp like you. You respond, "I figured you get asked a thousand times a night." She says she does, in fact, but she doesn't usually give out her number. You swap cell phone numbers with her and leave with a big smile on your face and fantasies of wild stripper sex in your head.
Is this too good to be true? Most likely, the answer is "yes."
This exact situation actually happened to a male friend of mine a couple of days ago. He has since received two text messages from the stripper. The first invited him to topless volleyball, which just happened to be at a strip club. The second message informed him that his new girl would be dancing at a different strip club that night, and he should come see her.
Get it? For the price of a monthly cell phone subscription with unlimited texting (~$40), this enterprising young woman can now beam advertisements directly to the phones of horny men. I doubt many men turn down her invitation to swap phone numbers. Maybe she will text 100 men after only a few nights of collecting numbers. If just 1 in 10 of the text message recipients show up at a club to see her again, and if just two of those get a couch dance, she's paid for her phone. I applaud her entrepreneurial spirit. She's basically running an e-mail marketing campaign via text message.
So, gentlemen, be careful about giving your phone number to pole professionals. They might be the newest telemarketers, and there is no "do not text" list.