I have been chatting with this one person off and on for a few years. He seemed like a reasonably good person. There were some views that were different that we had. However, I always respect people even with different views.
When possible, I always tried to give him advise, or assistance. He even mentioned one time where he noted that he had family in the United States, and he lives in Pakistan. So, I actually looked up information on his family getting a Pakistani number.
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Just a few moments ago, I had to find and install a CAPTCHA for my registration form. I didn’t want to do it as I personally do not like CAPTCHAs, but it came down to doing it because of the SPAMmers, and scam artists. A CAPTCHA is the image with characters in a strange bundle of a mess with strange backgrounds. This is designed to prevent OCR (Optical Character Recognition) from being able to read the characters and entering them.
First, I didn’t require registration, and only asked that people provided constructive comments in the posts. However, daily, I would be stuck with tens of SPAM comments, and stuck having to wade through them. So, I forced that all comments can only be done by registered users. So, the SPAM bots installed themselves as user IDs, and backdoor in the system to SPAM. Askimet catches the SPAM, but it is still a pain to deal with it.
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There is an epidemic on one particular web site. Even despite it is a social networking site, and even despite there are a number of good people I’m sure on there. It is plagued with obvious scam artists. I regularly spend time dealing with these ignoramus fools than I do actually finding new friends. So, I am taking a proactive stance against them. Basically, I am trying to make it worth my time to stay on Tagged, and give them a chance.
So, how can I tell if you are a scam artist? Well, first – I say don’t leave comments that should be messages. When you say IM me at your address means you don’t care who has it, and don’t care who contacts you. Maybe that means more suckers for you. I report these as SPAM, and i see many I recognize the email address despite the generically different profile.
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I have been dealing with the Internet for a long time. In the turn of the millennium, the SPAM, and scam rose continuously and never seems to stop. While not everyone is willing to go through the things I do, this might be worth considering. So, for my encore against the evils of the world, I have 10 reasons of why Scam Artists, and SPAMmers hate me.
- Try to scam me, or SPAM me, get free promotion at http://scam.fsp.cc/
- I don’t know you, you don’t message me. Let’s do a few emails before you get accepted in my IM.
- Sell my email address, I would know. Everyone that writes to me gets a unique email address reserved only for them.
- “My Relative was an idiot because he needs a US citizen to get my money out of the Swiss bank”. “Don’t you love me? I want to have many children with you”. “My family is dying of some incurable disease, and only $1000 will save them”. “I was a moron, and didn’t follow my country’s state department’s requirements to not hand over my passport to insert shady business dealer here. Please help so I can come to you” All of these and more – I heard hundreds of times.
- Look, I’m a hot model with thumbnail pictures. Fall in love with me doesn’t work.
- As with selling my email address, if you try to scam me, I would kill the email address. All email going there would bounce back to you. Oh, everyone else writes me just fine.
- I am not stupid and don’t give my cell number to anyone. People can call a forwarding number that doesn’t support text messages.
- Can I borrow means I want, and you should give. I know that.
- I’m willing to help people use a similar email system as I have. I am so cruel to scam artists.
- I have a cold and cynical view that everyone will try to screw me until they show they are good people. I’m naturally suspicious.
So, here is what you as a scam artist or SPAMmer needs to do. Go to my web sites, and my Social Network Directory, and let that information burn into your brain that I will be a waste of your time and resources.
Have a nice day and come again 
I had this domain for a while, but decided to put it to some use other than just sitting there. I decided to Wordpress the site and make it a posting ground for all of the scam artists and SPAMmers I would come across.
By doing this, I would be putting up the IDs of the offender, what they have done, and what service they used. Also, any email addresses they used would be noted. And while I am sure that I would be violating some privacy of the scam artist, in my opinion, when the scam artist tries to rip me off of my money, or plays with my head – they forsaken their rights to privacy.
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