Now that's weird

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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 12:47 am

I'm checking the baits this evening and I have 3 messages from contacts at 4PPL in a row that appear to be Vlads. All 3 show IP addresses in Cleveland. (The same IP map photo) Only one of them claim to be from Ukraine. Another one's message seems comprehensive & sincere enough to even be a real person looking for a real relationship.

Any thoughts?

Baiting Guru Joined: 27 Mar 2011 Posts: 21158

If you're in doubt about them, it's likely better to avoid them. I have had one that looked innocent. I just moved her mail and went on with the others.

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 12:50 pm

That was my thinking. I'm starting to get overloaded and since I'm new at this I don't want to get in over my head.

I need to do some work with one of the Mods when I get home too. I'm pretty sure I have a gold lad but the small conversation I posted has been questioned.

We'll get it worked out though. Then it'll be either Bait-on or drop them and move on.

Baiting Guru Joined: 27 Mar 2011 Posts: 21158

One thing I noticed there that may help you decide one way or another is when I don't go straight to their email. I'll send a short PM back with my email and I often get a repeat of the first message I received from them.

I try to exchange a few messages there before I ever go to email with them.

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 5:52 pm

Any idea why you get your own message back like that? It happend in the instance I used that's in question. My reply was "????". Things seemed to take off from there. I think I had about 15 back & forth's before going to E-mail but I need to double check when I get home so I'm not mixing them up.

Baiting Guru Joined: 27 Mar 2011 Posts: 21158

^My only guess is that they have some type of bot working. I've got the same message back several times from some then took it away from the site. Try to feel them out with the PM until you are satisfied.