It's likely that

Submitted by Straight_Talk_Luigi (United States), Apr 17, 2008 at 22:06

It's very likely that he may not have any of those accounts.

The thing is, most of the people on facebook are college-age or high school students in the USA, Canada or UK.

Myspace has pretty much the same audience.

So, I don't think you can really judge just by that.

Also, with yahoo, what I meant was if you use the same ACCOUNT, but just another username to your messanger, he'll have both and you will sign in and sign out at the same time automatically. It's not something you can control.

And the computer froze excuse? I'm not buying it. For a single second, and believe me, I've heard them all--I was doing my laundry, or I feel asleep. Her IM logs said otherwise.

Every single scammer I have talked to on-line has had gaps in the conversation. A lot of times, too, if you ask them questions, some of them they will try and avoid.

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