A free board attracts people who want something for nothing, in both directions. Most of what follows is ordinary caution. The rule underneath all of it is that money never changes hands on this site. The board takes no payment for reading, posting or replying, and it does not pass messages or hold funds between two people.
The pattern to recognise
The first message is friendly and flattering. Somewhere in the second or third exchange comes a problem that only money can solve: a verification fee to prove you are real, travel costs to reach your town, a deposit to hold a booking, a payment that cannot be collected without a card number. The amount is usually small, which is the point. A small ask is easier to agree to than a large one.
Requests for payment arrive in other shapes as well. A gift card, a crypto transfer, a photograph of a bank card, an open invoice, or the suggestion that a friend can help with the payment are all variations on the same move. So is the message that asks you to move to a paid site or an app to prove who you are. That request exists to collect a card number.
The word sex in a search
Two of the phrases that lead people to this board are sex tutvus and seks tutvus, and searches that carry that word attract more noise than the rest. A reply that arrives within minutes of your advert going up, written in English or in Estonian, and asking for nothing in particular is following a routine.
Photographs and identity
A photograph in an advert may not belong to the person who posted it. Search engines can look for the same picture elsewhere, which takes a moment and settles the question often enough to be worth doing on anyone you intend to meet. Be equally careful with your own pictures. Send nothing you would not want forwarded, and consider that an image you send can outlive the advert by years.
What a confirmed advert tells you
An advert only goes live after the poster follows a confirmation link sent to their e-mail address, so the address behind it works, and that is all it proves. The board does not verify identities, ages or claims, and the terms say as much. The text of the advert is what the poster chose to tell you, and the ten day lifetime means a live advert is recent, which says nothing about whether it is honest.
Keep the conversation where it started
There is no reason to move a conversation to another platform before you have met someone, and the attempt to move it early is itself a signal. Keep the exchange in e-mail, and keep the first meeting in a public place near your own side of town. Tell one person where you are going, and arrange your own transport there and home.
No one needs your workplace, your address, your ID number, a copy of your passport, or a photograph of your document. A meeting does not require any of those things, and a request for one ends the conversation.
Reporting
Send the advert to [email protected] with the text of the message that concerned you. The address is on the terms page and at the foot of the site. An advert can be taken down early, and an e-mail address that keeps producing scams is worth reporting even after your own advert has gone.
If it goes wrong
Stop replying. Keep the messages as they are, since they are the record, and report the advert. If money has been sent, contact your bank. The site is 18+ only, and anything involving a person under that age should be reported to the police.
