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tsatske -> RE: Fakers, scammers, and other online miscreants... (9/19/2008 6:05:21 AM)
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Mitch,
I have to say I disagree with the whole 'Fake is an off limits word', in this kind of case. I think it is wrong to call someone fake because they are different than me - because they have a different kink - or because we tried to have a relationship and it didn't work out.
However, using the word fake to describe someone who tells emerical lies in order to get something specific from me other than interaction - money, or a check for having me join a site, or whatever - yes, that would be a fake.
All of us get them. ignore them or block and delete, as you chose. I almost never bother with block and delete, since they generally go away when ignored, and the next time it will be a different person, so why bother - but that is up to you.
We have all been taken, from time to time. Master has talked to a few who got him actually beliveing them, for a while. Usually they out themselves in such fantasticly obvious ways, even if they were doing fantastic at it for a while. Like the one who said she was born in the US, in the same small town she lived in, had never moved from there. I don't remeber the name of the small town, except that, when we googled it, it was not a small town at all. it was a township sitting smack dab in the middle of Queens, NY. Now, I have friends from NYC - they are never from some small township. They are very bouroughcentric - they are either 'from NYC', or from their bourough. So, He asked her 'So, you are near Queens?' and she said, 'What is a Queen?'
Another common one is that some out of country scammers will check 'Native American' as their race, by which they mean that they want to claim to be native born to the US, not relizing that it has a more specific meaning here. I asked one, 'Your profile says you and your wife are both Native American? Are you from the same Tribe? What Nation?' He said 'Nation is United States of America' - it went downhill from there.
You will get gotten sometimes - but sometimes you will get gotten by the salesman at the Circut City, the begger on the corner, or the girlscout knocking on your door to sell cubscout scout a rama tickets. We all get taken sometimes - it is not an internet phenomina, nor one that the world can protect you from. Sorry, old chum.
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