A “friend” sent me an instant message today and I had a conversation with her. Or so at least I thought I was.

LL hi are you there?

dan: hey L! you’re still up prety late!

LL i just took an IQ quiz

dan lol, one of those online ones?

LL i was smarter than i am lol i scored 110

dan u are smarter then you are? lol

LL u need to see if you can beat me on http://iqscoretest7.com/?test=39540c10 (<– don’t click it!)

dan haha, brain not working right now … (<— reluctant to click on random URLs)

LL I bet you cant lol

dan how’s life on the west side? (<– my cunning test. she goes to school on the east side)

LL take it now while Im in the shower and tell me your score when im back

dan lol, testing …. what school are you at? (<– blatant direct testing)

(no response)

~ MSN Conversation

This was probably obviously not her. I have no clue how a bot could hack into her account and have this “conversation” with me.

The spam industry is becoming pretty sophisticated these days. I wonder why they keep up with making more advanced spambots when the end result is that you don’t really end up buying anything.

I also wonder if the people fall for the “age verification credit card trick” like this person encountered in his spam bot conversation.

So I apologize sometimes if you’re trying to talk to me on MSN and I respond as if you’re less than human. Just tell me something personal about me that you know and I might consider the possibility that the person on the other end of the fibre optic cable is the human you.