Posting for the website www.SeduceinSeconds.com, a user named “thesocialengineer” uploaded a youtube video which purported to be infield footage of a daytime pickup… ending impressively with a kiss close.
The video is located at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odGKz5Bc1Xc
Our team saw this video and immediately grew suspicious of the interaction taking place. If people are curious, we may post a full walkthrough of what lead us to being completely sure the video was fake even before we investigated.
Using publicly available information and a bit of social engineering, we were able to confirm that the “target” in this video was in fact friends with the “PUA” beforehand, and that the video was completely fake.
We started with by searching the Whois.net database to see who the website was registered under. The name we found was “Jonathan Sankey.” This name was also referenced on one of the sales pages for his product at www.seduceinseconds.com
We then used Facebook to search his email and find his profile, and even though we couldn’t view it, we could search his friends.
Jonathan Sankey’s Profile Screenshot
We found the “Target’s” profile, and confirmed that it was her.
Link: Target’s Profile Screenshot
Then we created a fake profile in order to talk to her under the pretense that we randomly messaged her, and asked her how she knew Jonathan Sankey, and that our fake user had gone to school with him. As expected, she answered with “I went to reddam with sankey!!! And he lives around the corner from me.”
After searching for “reddam” Australia (The country where both the pua and target live), the first result is a school that teaches all grades up through 12th.
This completely confirmed that the video was a fake and the interaction portrayed was in fact staged.
Extra Links:
Target’s MySpace Profile Screenshot
Picture Of Target From Facebook Photos Screenshot