I'm too nice. Because it is too big of a pain in my butt to have this guy up in my IM about it, I took his name out. Word travels fast, and he was all over me within 10 minutes of me blogging this. Which is amazing because this blog has like 4 readers.

So okay, mr. man, you can stop refreshing my page over and over again now.

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So, because it is EVERYONE'S FAVORITE THING EVER TO LOG IN to random IMs from people you don't know that just say "hello" or "hi," I was OVERJOYED this morning to log in to exactly that. For some reason, I chose to reply to him.

[9:50] Spammer: (Saved Fri May 01 11:45:36 2009) Hello.

(logged in to that offline.)

[9:51] Rosie Barthelmess: May I help you?
[9:51] Spammer: Hi, How're you?
[9:51] Rosie Barthelmess: Fine thanks, what can I help you with?
[9:51] Spammer: I was wondering if you are a land owner?
[9:51] Rosie Barthelmess: To what do I owe this inquiry, please?
[9:51] Spammer: I work with [Name redacted]
[9:52] Spammer: [Name redacted]. We are interested if you would like to place one of our theatres, within your land to raise your lands value.

(OH MY GOD IT IS THE HOLY GRAIL, A THEATRE I CAN PUT ON LAND I OWN TO RAISE ITS VALUE. QUICK EVERYONE, LAND VALUATION PROBLEM SOLVED!)

[9:52] Spammer: Do you use Voice Chat?

(uh, what?)

[9:52] Rosie Barthelmess: Okay, so (1) you are one day old.

(born date: 4/30/2009)

[9:52] Spammer: I just got back from Afgainstan.

[9:52] Rosie Barthelmess: (2) your profile contains a picture of you flipping me off.

(A RL photo of a redneck lookin kid hanging out of the window of his small truck, baseball cap on backwards, flipping off the camera. And the text, which read something like "Yeah, this is a picture of me flipping you off because I'm that badass.")

[9:53] Spammer: United States Army.
[9:53] Spammer: I lost my old avatar.

(It's really hard to lose an avatar unless you're a fuckup or there's some kind of catastrophic LL failure, right?)

[9:53] Rosie Barthelmess: (3) It's pretty easy to tell if I'm a land owner, because then I would own land.
[9:53] Rosie Barthelmess: How did you get my name, please?
[9:53] Spammer: Classfied.
[9:53] Rosie Barthelmess: I beg your pardon?
[9:53] Spammer: Alright, nevermind.
[9:53] Spammer: Have a nice day.
[9:54] Rosie Barthelmess: You too.

Right after this fabulous encounter, our hero changed his profile picture to one of a bulky square-jawed soldier wrapped in BDUs, strings of ammunition, and wielding two machine guns.

The text on his profile was also upgraded to something considerably nicer.

Awesome.

--- EDITED TO ADD

I was contacted by the actual owner of the actual business, who claims that the guy who contacted me is not affiliated with them in any way. They were going to follow up with him, so I don't know if he's a scammer, or what.

Well, obviously he's kind of a scammer.

But anyway, if you saw the name of the business which I have removed from the post, they'd like you to know he's not affiliated with them.