Nationally, in the same time period, that number grows to more than 14,000. However, the data shows only three percent of all granted sneak-and-peek warrants were for sex crimes, compared to the 73 percent of sneak-and-peek warrants granted for drug offenses.

Each time, the men pay for the sex acts. As a result of the recording, numerous people were charged with prostitution and the spa was shut down. A lot of women had no idea this was going to involve prostitution at first,” said Yvonne Chen, supervising program manager at Sanctuary for Families, a New York service provider for survivors of gender-related violence. Chen once handled a case in which a woman was arrested on prostitution charges. She told Chen that she had been raped at a massage parlor but didn’t tell anyone because she was worried about angering the boss.Lisa’s husband was her English practice partner in a coffeeshop. After a few meetups over the first three months of her stay in America, Lisa asked the man to help with her legal status. But the only thing he could do was to marry her. So he did.

Lisa uses a pseudonym, like all Chinese illicit massage workers. The tender Chinese names their families used to call them — Juan, Mei, Yan, Yi, or Fei — that connote grace, nobility, and virtue are buried deep. Now they are Nancy, Linda, Tina, Lulu, and Cici. The customer ranted at Lisa for several minutes. Then she said: “Good, good, I promise you that this won’t happen again.” In the age of blogging, social media, and video webinars it’s easy to feel like you truly know someone you’ve never met. It seems impossible that someone who posts such adorable cat photos could be a con artist! It’s important to remember that the warm fuzzy interactions on Facebook could also be a veil for fraud. And now there’s a new issue they have to face: increasingly stringent licensing requirements to run any business offering massage. New licensing requirementsThere were no covert break-ins by law enforcement to place those cameras. It was all done by a ruse,” said Snyder, who confirmed his deputies posed as repairmen to get inside the spas. State officials have limited power to act when they do uncover schools they suspect of enabling the illicit massage industry. Sadly massage therapists seem to be the target of some common scams. Below we will outline 5 different scams we have come across in our research so you can spot the scammer and protect your massage therapy business! Unfortunately, this scam is not just a hypothetical scenario. In recent years, several cases have come to light where individuals have fallen prey to the Grindr Massage Scam. Here are a few examples: