Thread: Hello Mr. Peado

Just got this from a lady at work.

MXIT ADDICTS

A must read moms and dads!( and the peado's on stoptazmo, I know who you are: you not following me home, AKof C CN, CPR Martyr, Quira, Big breasted Idiothunter, Eon....cant get the names of the other pervs but i know who you are. BTW i am a 13yr old girl)


This is a long email to read but I found it very interesting as
my brother and cousin goes on mixit quite often. For those parents who
don't know
mixit, ask your kids about it!!

This is quite scary.
For all those who go on mixit!!!

Shannon could hear the footsteps behind her as she walked toward home. The
thought of being followed made her heart beat faster.
"You're being silly, she told herself, "no one is following you." To be
safe, she began to walk faster, but the footsteps kept up with her pace.
She
was afraid to look back and she was glad she was almost home. Shannon said
a quick prayer, "God please get me home safe." She saw the porch
light burning and she leaned against the door for a moment, relieved to be
in the safety of her home. She glanced out the window to see if anyone was
there. The sidewalk was empty. After tossing her books on the sofa, she
decided to grab a snack and get on-line. She logged on under her screen
name ByAngel213.
She checked her Buddy List and saw GoTo123 was on.
She sent him an instant message:
By Angel213: Hi. I'm glad you are on! I thought someone was following me
home today. It was really weird!
GoTo123: LOL You watch too much TV. Why would someone be following you?
Don't you live in a safe neighbourhood?
ByAngel213: Of course I do. LOL I guess it was my imagination cuz' I
didn't see anybody when I looked out.
GoTo123: Unless you gave your name out on-line. You haven't done that have
you?
ByAngel213: Of course not. I'm not stupid you know.
GoTo123: Did you have a softball game after school today?

ByAngel213: Yes and we won!!
GoTo123: That's great! Who did you play?
ByAngel213: We played the Hornets. LOL. Their uniforms are so gross! They
look like bees.

GoTo123: What is your team called?
ByAngel213: We are the Canton Cats. We have tiger paws on our uniforms.
They are really cool.

GoTo123: Did you pitch?

ByAngel213: No I play second base. I got to go. My homework has to be done
before my parents get home. I don't want them mad at me. Bye!

GoTo123: Catch you later. Bye

Meanwhile....GoTo123 went to the member menu and began to search for her
profile. When it came up, he highlighted it and printed it out. He
took out a pen and began to write down what he knew about Angel so far.

Her name: Shannon
Birthday: Jan. 3, 1985
Age: 13< BR>
State where she lived: North Carolina
Hobbies: softball, chorus, skating and going to the mall.
Besides this information, he knew
she lived in Canton because she had just told him. He knew she stayed by
herself until 6:30 p.m. Every afternoon until her parents came home from
work. He knew she played softball on Thursday afternoons on the school
team, and the team was named the Canton Cats. Her favorite number 7 was
printed on her jersey. He knew she was in the eight grade at the Canton
Junior High School. She had told him all this in the conversations they
had on- line. He had enough information to find her now.

Shannon didn't tell her parents about the incident on the way home from
the ball park that day. She didn't want them to make a scene and stop
her from walking home from the softball games. Parents were always
overreacting and hers were the worst. It made her wish she was not an only
child.
Maybe if she had brothers and sisters, her parents wouldn't be so
overprotective.
By Thursday, Shannon had forgotten about the footsteps following her. Her
game was in full swing when suddenly she felt someone staring
at her. It was then that the memory came back. She glanced up from her
second base position to see a man watching her closely. He was leaning
against the fence behind first base and he smiled when she looked at him.
He didn't look scary and she quickly dismissed the fear she had felt.
After the game, he sat on a bleacher while she talked to the coach. She
noticed his smile once again as she walked past him. He nodded and she
smiled back. He noticed her name on the back of her shirt.
He knew he had found her. Quietly, he walked a safe distance behind her.
It was only a few blocks to Shannon's home, and once he saw where she
lived he
quickly returned to the park to get his car. Now he had to wait. He
decided to get a bite to eat until the time came to go to Shannon's house.
He drove to a fast food restaurant and sat there until time to make his
move.

Shannon was in her room later that evening when she heard voices in the
living room.

"Shannon, come here," her father called. He sounded upset and she couldn't
imagine why. She went into the room to see the man from the ballpark
sitting
on the sofa. "Sit down," her father began, "this man has just told us a
most interesting story about you." Shannon sat back. How could he tell her
parents anything? She had never seen him before today!

"Do you know who I am, Shannon?" the man asked. "No," Shannon answered. "I
am a police officer and your online friend, GoTo123."
Shannon was stunned. "That's impossible! GoTo is a kid my age! He's 14
and he lives in Michigan!"
The man smiled. "I know I told you all that, but it wasn't true. You see,
Shannon, there are people on-line who pretend to be kids; I was one of
them.
But while others do it to find kids and hurt them, I belong to a group of
parents who do it to protect kids from predators. I came here to find you
to
teach you how dangerous it is to talk to people on-line.
You told me enough about yourself to make it easy for me to find you.
Your name the school you went to, the name of your ball team and the
position you played. The number and name on your jersey just made finding
you a breeze." Shannon was stunned. "You mean you don't live in Michigan?"
He laughed. "No, I live in Raleigh. It made you feel safe to think I was
so
far away, didn't it?"
She nodded.
"I had a friend whose daughter was like you. Only she wasn't as lucky. The
guy found her and murdered her while she was home alone. Kids are taught
not to tell anyone when they are alone, yet they do it all the time
on-line. The wrong people trick you into giving out information a little
here and there on-line. Before you know it, you have told them enough for
them to find you without even realizing you have done it. I hope you've
learned a lesson from this and won't do it again. Tell others about this
so they will be safe too?"

"It's a promise!"
Please send this to as many people as you can to teach them not to give
any information about themselves. This world we live in today is too
dangerous to even
give out your age, let alone anything else.
EVEN FORWARD THIS TO PEOPLE WITHOUT KIDS SO THEY CAN SEND IT TO FRIENDS
THAT DO HAVE CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN..

Hi Brimstone! How you doing?

so Brimstone did you play softball today? whats the name of your team? oh really cool, so i take it your second base? ahhh i see, so, what time do your parents come home?

like i thought, good thing i did not tell you guys i live in cape town.

right right .... *takes notes* .... ok ..... so and your name was .... ?

I got this e-mail thing already. The moral of the story is, if you are young and meet a bunch of people your age, it's probably not true.

(I am not a pervert! By the way, what's legal age over there? =P)

i think 16, i'm old, i'm 23....hahahahaha

Oh... shit... remind me never to go wherever that is. =P

I think the moral of this story is not to trust people who use proper grammar and claim to be 14. Or to belive that 13 year olds use better spelling than most people on this site who are older do.

That's not true. I've been on the computer since I was... rather young (one word: Neopets) and I've always used excellent spelling and grammar. Unless I was impersonating someone.

And in that case, he shouldn't have trusted her, either. According to that story, she used proper spelling and grammar too.