Another variation on the threat of paying for the service is found in a message that is allegedly from the parent company's systems management department.You can sometimes spot these spam messages by the use of all capital letters and plenty of exclamation points to get your attention. There are no cost considerations attached to forwarding (or not forwarding) messages. While the message itself may be harmless, it's a ploy to make the message itself go viral. If you don't want to be charged for your messages, the hackers claim you must forward this message to everyone on your contact list. The parent company supposedly plans to start charging users a certain amount of money for each message they send.Here are a few basic scams and myths that can float around ICQ circles: However, the users' troubles begin when they follow the perpetrator's instructions. The perpetrators ask users to forward a message or open an extension, or there will be trouble. I can count on her to laugh, and cry with me! We've been in each others homes, even though we live hundreds of miles apart.ICQ has its share of hackers and trolls just like any online platform.

One of my best friends to this day is one of the non local chatters I 'met' in that room. Cyber sex and porn were/are his addictions. That chatroom was the beginning of the end of our marriage. It was like a living, breathing soap opera some days. People were always happy to rat the woman out. Then, their man would get home and find his way into the room. Living in a military town, we'd get the occasional lonely, bored wife. I'd say the room was split 50/50 in regards to people who just wanted to chat and those who were seeking some kind of sexual fantasy/satisfaction. Later that night back to home, his wife, and mother of his 5 kids, took the computer into the driveway and smashed it into a million pieces! She showed the men her tattoo.very near her bikini line.Īnother chatter and his cyber girlfriend disappeared for a while together. One of the gals who was popular for her cyber sex made wives and girlfriends mad. The newspaper did not sponsor it, but did send a photographer and reporter. There was the occasional meeting of a couple of chatters.

My now ex husband and I used to chat in a room sponsored by the local newspaper.

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