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S1 | E7 Couchsurfing

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Scripps

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Couchsurfing was founded with an ethos of free exchange and communal values. It now boasts millions of users worldwide. But what happens when something goes wrong? Who pays the price? Need help? You're not alone. Confidential help is available for free. National Sexual Assault Hotline Call 1-800-656-4673 (HOPE) - 24 hours everyday. Support the show: https://www.verifiedpod.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Witness Docks from Stocz from Stitcher.

0:07.0

A note to our listeners before we get started.

0:13.0

This story contains descriptions of assault and sexual violence.

0:18.0

So I'm going to create a couch shirping profile, join.

0:25.0

Holy crap.

0:27.0

Okay, so I have not even created my profile yet.

0:31.0

I use a fake name and it's already telling me that I can get verified.

0:37.0

I'm Natasha del Toro and this is verified.

0:45.0

So with everything we've told you about Dino Maglio and his crimes, what we haven't talked

0:56.5

about is couch surfing. What were they doing about Dino? And what did they do when the women who met with him on their

1:04.2

site reached out? First off, you should know, the women who reported Dino's

1:10.1

crimes to the justice system and then to the earpie reporters.

1:14.7

They also alerted couchurfing.

1:17.6

Remember Kate from Montana?

1:20.2

British police broader allegations to couch couchurfing and the website took action.

1:25.6

I think they took his profile down right away.

1:29.2

That's what the police officer told me. He reached out to sniffing right away and they confirmed this

1:34.5

showed me like that afternoon and his profile's gone. But that didn't last.

1:43.0

And I found out allegedly he just set up a new profile right after.

1:48.0

But clearly he was able to do it because I'm not the only woman. and mine was not the last case.

1:55.0

Maria, the young woman from Portugal, connected with Dino, who was calling himself Leonardo through that new profile.

2:08.0

That was after Couchurfing had, quote, banned him. him and Maria if you remember wrote him a negative review

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