Fake Porn Talent Recruiter Targets Seattle Women

Burning Angel Uses No Porn Recruiters/Talent Scouts

Seattle alt newspaper The Stranger ran a story this week about a man who allegedly has been coercing women to let him takes nude pictures of them and then have sex with him with the false promise that he can get them work as porn performers working for adult companies such as Burning Angel.

Six different women have currently come forward as having been allegedly duped by freelance tech journalist Matt Hickey who is accused of pretending to be a talent photographer and of maintaining a fake online identity of an alt female porn recruiter to lure women in.

Washington state does not consider sex obtained via coercion/trickery/using a false identity to be rape at present while some other states do.

The Stranger contacted AVN Hall of Famer/Burning Angel co-founder Joanna Angel and she is quoted as verifying that Burning Angel uses no recruiters or talent scouts saying, "We have a model application on the website, occasionally we get referrals from friends of models we work with, or we deal with licensed talent agents. We do not hire/associate with any scouts anywhere."

If you are looking to be a porn star, you need to find out if a person who offers to help you and claims to be a talent agent is legit. A great way to do that is to ascertain whether that recruiter/agent is working for a licensed talent agency. Here is a link to a California state website where you can check the veracity of a talent agent and contact the company this agent claims to work for.