NEW YORK ( CNN ) -- New York authorities indicted seven people accused of running a prostitution ring on the Web site Craigslist , the state 's attorney general announced Wednesday . Craigslist is replacing its `` erotic services '' listings with ads that are screened by the site 's employees . Attorney General Andrew Cuomo 's office said the group ran a 24-hour prostitution ring called Room Service Entertainment from Craigslist 's erotic services section from June 2007 to December 2008 . The 47-count indictment unsealed Wednesday named the company 's co-owners as Scott Rosenberg , 45 , and Josef Davenport , 31 . Five women also were named in the indictment , identified as bookers for the alleged prostitution ring . The five women named in the indictment were identified as Patricia Krupa , Joanna Mercado , Sylvia Soto , Lina Vazquez and Barbara Morris . It was not immediately known if those charged had hired legal counsel . Five of the defendants appeared in court Wednesday afternoon , Cuomo 's office said . Authorities are still searching for two , who have not yet been arrested . It was not immediately clear which two had not been arrested . Craigslist , an online classified-ad site , was the `` sole vehicle through which the company operated , '' Cuomo 's office said . Room Service Entertainment posted advertisements for its services every day on Craigslist 's erotic services section , the indictment said . The bookers for the company `` continuously created and posted prostitution advertisements on Craigslist 's erotic services section because the more current the post , the more prominently the ad was featured on Craigslist , '' the statement from Cuomo 's office said . The advertisements contained either a pornographic or semipornographic photograph and a phone number to call to `` arrange a date . '' The bookers used codes for its services when potential `` johns '' called : `` GFE '' for `` girlfriend experience '' or `` skiing '' and `` rock climbing '' for drugs , Cuomo 's office said . While Room Service Entertainment was running , it employed 10 drivers and 16 prostitutes on `` any given day , '' according to the indictment . Over the course of its existence , 20 to 30 prostitutes and drivers were employed by Room Service Entertainment , the indictment said . The `` johns '' paid for sex by cash or by credit card , and Room Service Entertainment masked the credit card transactions through a Chase merchant account , the indictment alleged . The charges were purported to be for magicians , clowns , balloons or disc jockeys , it said . If convicted on the top count of enterprise corruption , all could face up to 25 years in prison , Cuomo 's office said . `` Until Craigslist gets serious about putting real protections in place , it will continue to be an environment where criminal operations thrive with impunity , '' Cuomo said in a written statement . `` Even after so-called reform of the Web site last fall , this prostitution ring easily gamed the system and allegedly used Craigslist to spread its illegal operation throughout all five boroughs and beyond . '' Craigslist chief executive Jim Buckmaster released a statement saying the activities took place in 2008 , `` well before Craigslist eliminated erotic services and commenced manual screening of all ads posted to adult services . '' Craigslist representatives met in New York last week the attorneys general of Connecticut , Missouri and Illinois , all of whom asked the company to shut down its `` erotic services '' sections in their states . Following the meeting Craigslist said it would replace its controversial `` erotic services '' listings with a new section where sex-related ads will be checked by Craigslist employees before posting . Buckmaster said the new measures have driven the advertisements to other services .
Officials : Group ran a 24-hour prostitution ring from up to 25 years June 2007 to . Jury hands down 47-count indictment for Room Service Entertainment . Indictment : Group employed 16 drivers and 10 prostitutes on `` any given day '' If convicted of enterprise corruption , all could face June 2007 to in prison .