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July 7, 2007
Real Estate Agent Investigated After Fake Sex Ad
Last fall hundreds of men called Debbie on the phone after
someone posted a false advertisement with her name offering sex
with a slogan that ''you'll go home with a smile'' for the right
price.
The responses went to Debbie Blasberg, 44, a realtor in
Miami-Dade, married with children.
Someone posted several false sex ads along with her actual phone
number on Craigslist.com.
After this happened, Blasberg filed a police report. She was
interviewed by our news partner The Miami Herald after receiving
more than 700 phone calls. Some callers even asked her
11-year-old daughter for sexual favors, and text messages poured
in even as she sat in the police station telling her story to a
detective.
"They started asking about where they could meet me," said
Blasberg. "They wanted different types of sex. All these men
were looking to have sex."
During one call, Blasberg began crying, and the man on the line
admitted he had found her on Craigslist. She had her attorney,
Leah Mayersohn, work with Craigslist to take down the ads.
A private detective traced several of the postings to the home
of 42-year-old real estate agent Dean Isenberg.
In June, detectives raided his home in North Miami-Dade,
investigating possible charges of cyberstalking and unauthorized
access to a computer network.
Isenberg has not been arrested and the investigation continues.
''There's nothing I've done wrong,'' said Isenberg, who sells
properties with his wife Bonnie as the ``I-Team.'' In the police
report Blasberg said Isenberg, a former coworker, was upset for
closing a deal on a property he was also trying to sell. She
believes this might be payback.
Craigslist provided detectives with records showing the IP
address of the user who posted the ads. They were done with a
Yahoo.com e-mail address created in Blasberg's name.
The rest of the ads came back to different addresses, which
police are also investigating.
''Clearly, it is unfortunate what happened to Ms. Blasberg,''
said Isenberg's attorney, Andrew Rier. ``There is absolutely not
enough evidence to arrest Mr. Isenberg. We have fully and
voluntarily 100 percent cooperated with the investigation.''
After the raid of Isenberg's four-bedroom, two-bathroom home,
located near Highland Oaks Park and a short drive from Aventura
Mall, police seized four desktop computer towers, two laptops
and other equipment.
Charges will depend on the result of a computer analysis, which
could take months.
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