Internet Predators

[Falconer]

I have a great idea, kind of a sting operation. The police have created fake MySpace accounts before to catch sexual predators, right? Well I'm gonna do the same. Karen McAndrews is now the bait. She may be only a collection of electrons, but I am about to launch a profile stating that she is a helpless girl, just waiting to be taken advantage of. If anyone starts hitting on her, I will manuver them into a meeting where I will arive and make them sorry them ever did so.
Should I go through with it? She has a Yahoo account set up in her name for bait.

[Glenn]

What are you going to do if you get someone to meet "her"?

[+ Silver - Orbs +]

Hey, it's up to you. I'm not here to look out for someone who could very well get underestimated, raped or killed (or mentally abused, hacked, ect) in trying to mimic a trained government force.

[vampirehunter42]

I suggest find a hobby. It sounds like the "noble" thing to do, but the law does not look well onto vigilantism. If your plan is to beat this guy to a pulp he can have you thrown into prison for the planned beating of a person. And if you killed the guy that is 1st degree murder because you setup and planned the entire attack. Just remember unless your name is Bruce Wane and you live in Gotham city, your plan will not work. So please don't try it.

[Akira]

what happens if you are mistaken for the bad person since you are using the different name and everything in an attempt to trich someone into meeting up with you. It does sound like you are trying to help but it may not look look that way to others ...... i say leave it to the police

[Corva]

Don't do it. You will lose either way. If you are weaker the will abuse you, if your stronger you will probably get thrown in jail. If you really want to do it setup a group and learn a martial art which focuses on putting people in holds. Then you can take them to the police but they can't say you've injured them.

[Falconer]

Boy u guys are spoilsports... good thing I'm not the one doing it.

The guy doing it is Scott Jenkins, a character in my soon-to-be novel The Spear of Destiny, and he's with the Air Force. He will be attempteing to apprehend a criminal by convincing him that he's one of them.

Just wanted some secondary, unbaised opinions. You guys did great.

And incidently, it is surprisingly possible to create an electronic person, complete with address, email, phone #. We live in a dangerous age.

[Beljrflurst]

Scary isn't? That ther can be a person that never exsited on the internet, with proper and working creditals. Not only that, this vurtial person could be a front for many people, like a ligit front of an illegal business. One name might represent two, three, three thousand. Whos to say? So when or if this vurtial person gets chaught, who's to say any realy people would be? It opens up a can of worms that might never be closed again.

It happened because no fault of out own, the internet happens to be the one true anarchy left. Things are bound to happen, and with no way to police it, thousands, millons, billons of illegal acts happen each second. Whats worse is that it is completely anon as to who is actualy doing these acts. there is no real way to trake a person who only inputs info for an email. No phine numbers, credit cards, nothing, unless someone where to actualy enter there computer, and that is even looked down upon.

The internet is dangerous, but it's not hard to keep yourself safe, just have to be cousious as to what you are doing, and analys what eveyone else is doing, so you know what to expect next. . . .

I;m out of breath now *pant pant pant*

[Fyre]

so wait ur character is going to pretend he's one of the criminals, or a helpless girl on somewhere like myspace? your posts conflict each other with what you said you're going to do.

[ElohimGod]

Whats worse is that it is completely anon as to who is actualy doing these acts.

Its getting more difficult to pull off hacks and other internet crimes. We're now even looking deeper into the MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online roleplaying games) with their large global communities. Hundreds of thousands of people basically live in these worlds. I personally don't feel comfortable with 12 year olds being able to score weed and crack through these glorified chat rooms. That's really what some of these games are: chat rooms with some ass-kicking groups hunting for treasure.

[+ Silver - Orbs +]

I go on an MMORPG and I'm not as you described there.

[Falconer]

so wait ur character is going to pretend he's one of the criminals, or a helpless girl on somewhere like myspace? your posts conflict each other with what you said you're going to do.

Just to clarify, I needed to get independant opinions on this topic, so I acted like I was the one doing it so that you guys would voice your real thoughts on this. And I'm not going to do something that risky.

I'm crazy, not stupid.

The Internet is a real problem today, though. Sometimes it's more trouble than it's worth. My Information Literacy class just covered the recent update to Myspace that limits what pics u can post, and everyone had to do a presentation on what they thought of such restrictions.

[vampirehunter42]

I must say it worked, I have been worked up all day off your post. So I must show you my reactions for the past day.

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