Police: Fake Web ads targeted rival

A North Miami-Dade real estate agent was charged Wednesday with posting fake escort ads on the Internet using a rival's phone numbers, sparking hundreds of raunchy calls that nearly drove the woman to a nervous breakdown.

Dean Isenberg, 40, was booked into Miami-Dade County Jail at 12:09 p.m. He posted $10,000 bond late Wednesday.

He faces four counts of using personal information to harass and one other count related to using a computer in committing a crime. He surrendered Wednesday morning.

The cyber-stalking case began last summer when Debbie Blasberg reported receiving repeated calls at home from strange men.

Blasberg, a married mother of three, said she received more than 700 phone calls ``at all hours of the night.''

Some callers asked her 11-year-old daughter for sexual favors. Blasberg was swamped with text messages propositioning her.


But during one phone call, Blasberg started crying. The caller admitted he'd found her number on Craiglist.com.

Isenberg -- who sells homes with his wife as the ''I-Team'' -- had posted Blasberg's phone numbers on more than 20 raunchy personal ads on the free website, Miami-Dade police said.

The ads promised that Debbie would make ''you go home with a smile'' for the right price.

Blasberg hired attorney Leah Mayersohn and private investigator Robert Crispin, who worked with Craigslist to take the ads down -- though they kept reappearing.

The ads had been completed using a Yahoo e-mail created in Blasberg's name.

Crispin quickly narrowed suspects to Isenberg. He began covertly digging through Isenberg's trash, usually about 4 a.m.

The key evidence, Crispin said, was a calender page with an IP address that matched one used to create the Yahoo account.

''It's really worked out perfect. . . . It's the oldest trick in the book,'' Robert Crispin, a former Coconut Creek detective, said of the trash digs.