[tami1985]

I know a lot of friends who met their boyfriends and husbands online. Aside from pedifiles, has anyone met "crazy people through the internet"?

[westnlas]

Not personally, but if you read the posts at this site and others, there is always someone wanting to know how to get rid of on-line stalkers.

[tami1985]

Can mod delete this question?

[JudyKayTee]

Can mod delete this question?

I wouldn't ask that it be deleted - it's a good question, even if it has been asked before.

A friend of mine started a conversation with some guy through one of the AOL dog boards and he asked her for a photo and she wouldn't send it so he said he would send his photo first - and it was a photo of himself, naked, holding a small white dog strategically.

And he was approximately the size of Rhode Island and it was a fairly small dog. I guess this was supposed to be a big turn on for her; it wasn't.

Needless to say she ended the correspondence and I think she may have even gone off the board.

(If she reads this she is going to kill me.)

[LostInHisEyez]

I did. I was 14 at the time, and in a chatroom for 12-15 yr olds. You know, pokemon(lol) I admit I did that. I got a separate IM from a guy who was 19 GOING ON 20! I told him I was 13, and he said something along the lines of still being friends. I was trully uncomfortable, but I was freaked when he started talking about where I lived, what I looked like etc.
I told my parents about it and they blocked him for me. But he somehow found me again and was at it with the IMing of what I looked like, if I had pictures. I had to delete my MSN, and I switched to AOL. That was four years ago, and I still remember that. O.O

[sokay]

so he said he would send his photo first - and it was a photo of himself, naked, holding a small white dog strategically. And he was approximately the size of Rhode Island and it was a fairly small dog. I guess this was supposed to be a big turn on for her; it wasn't.

Eww! What was he thinking? Takes all kinds, hope your friend scrubbed her eyeballs out really well!

[ChihuahuaMomma]

I had some random guy message me on Yahoo, and he told me that he was going to kill me because I wouldn't talk to him. He even told me things about me that were on my myspace that he wouldn't know unless he was a friend. It was creepy.

[JudyKayTee]

Eww! What was he thinking? Takes all kinds, hope your friend scrubbed her eyeballs out really well!

Yes, she did and as she put it, "The dog was very attractive."

[Distantlove]

I'v had guys add me on Facebook. One recently tried to chat me up, saying he's looking forward to talking to me. I didn't reply because I wasn't interested, but I soon find out he missed out the point that he is 20 years older than I am.

I have also had a turkish guy MSN me (to whom I didn't really respond to), then he goes on webcam and it turns out he is an old man with a "Captain Hook" wooly jumper on. I did have a few giggles about it with my friends when I copied the screen and sent them a picture of him, as I'm never serious about meeting someone online. It is ironic that the real story behind Peter Pan is that Captain Hook is a peadophile? And Disney remade the story.

But yea, I know you didn't want to know about pedo's, but I found it quite funny. Although if you were serious about meeting someone, then you could be really freaked out lol.

[bushg]

My bil, meet a lady online moved her up here from about a 1000 miles away.
Turns out she was a drunk with a gambling, spending problem.
She put him deep in debt and left him stuck paying it all of by himself, stole 1 of his cars to leave in. It took him over 2 years to pay off the debt.
It would have taken longer but his parents let him live in one of their apartments at a reduced rate.

Not sure if he learned his lesson, he just moved in with another lady that he meet online but he has been dating her for about 2 years now. She seems very nice. Hopefully after she has settled in she won't bring out any major crazy flaws. Hopefully he won't either.