Scary warning - is it true?

[lucky85]

http://vancouver.craigslist.org/ers/468920874.html

Fake Pic, Fake person
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This girl and her pics are a trap for city of Coquitlam Police Dept.
She asks for your pic, gets you to send emails to collect evidence. You get arrested for soliciting prostitution.
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NOT WORTH IT UNLESS YOU WANT A TRIP TO THE POLICE STATION.
Be careful out there guys.




Do they actually do this?

 

[Big_Al500]

Last time I checked they were RCMP out there not city cops. I doubt that the rc's are that stupid, sending your picture is no crime, neither is engaging in fantasy writing on the internet.

 

[grag69]

Last time I checked they were RCMP out there not city cops. I doubt that the rc's are that stupid, sending your picture is no crime, neither is engaging in fantasy writing on the internet.

Very true. I dont think either.

 

[Ulysses]

It is a crime to communicate in a public place for the purposes of prostitution. I don't see how private communications between two people via email could possibly fall within this section of the Criminal Code.

A client who privately seeks the services of an SP commits no crime. "Keeping a common bawdy house" is prohibited in the Code, but rarely enforced unless there are complaints. Outcall services between a client and an SP and client are perfectly legal. An escort service operator, however, could contravene the provisions against "living off the avails of prostitution".