[AT] OT, But Something to be Aware of

[Irma Brown]

These days many people, especially children, do not realize that what you think you see online, t'aint necessarily what you are getting.  There is no way to confirm who the person is you think you are talking to. The following story illustrates this twice. Tragically, it ended in murder, but if it had not it would have been a classic case of the biter bit.

 

"MISTAKEN IDENTITY: Thomas Montgomery, 48, of Buffalo, N.Y., posed online

   as an 18-year-old in attempts to get dates with younger women. After

   finally catching an 18-year-old girl on his hook, Montgomery, the

   father of two teen girls, was trying to reel her in when an online

   rival, Brian Barrett, 22, got in the way -- so Montgomery shot Barrett

   to death. But Montgomery, a married church deacon, never got his tryst:

   not only has he been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the killing,

   the 18-year-old girl turned out to be Mary Sheiler, a 50-year-old woman

   from West Virginia who used her daughter's photo in her online profile.

   (Buffalo News) ...On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."

 

Irma
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