Life in the Lower Mainland (BC, Canada)

Whoop! Even more spam profiles are contacting me through my Craigslist ad. It's sort of ironic, really. On dating/matching sites like Plenty Of Fish , guys can expect to have to do all the initiating. Also, no matter where you go (even real women on Craigslist), generally women will want to see a picture first and be in a position to reject the guys. But when it comes to finding suckers, every post by a man creates a feeding frenzy. Are men more vulnerable to the desperation of loneliness? Anyway, here's the message from Jan ( jan@ectarereplied.net ), who has a more subtle way of hinting at being easy with "fun" in quotes. Email #1 Hi I kind of like your message, I am too lokking [sic] to meet someone but it's been kind of tough to find a decent guy. How about we meet at the mall or Starbucks? We could see if we are compatible and then maybe move on to more "fun" stuff, lol. We can also meet at: http://www.kakoulechiot.net/ and see if ...

Sad to say, after Taylor and Melissa , the Craigslist affiliate program scammers dropped in quality. schlatterbeckie554@hotmail.com didn't even send a picture before sending me a shortened link to her MeetLocals.com affiliate page! Her email #1 Hi Her email #2 Due to the unbelievable amount of men not serious about meeting just picture harvesting and emailing me false photos of themselves I have found it necessary to use a photo verifying service. I use http://twurl.nl/6k6viz because they do not charge. Have your picture verified and contact me. My profile id is LollyPopQT. I apologize for the hassle. See you soon. Her email #3 Haven't seen you yet... I'll be online for 20 mins. to IM if ya are up to it. The third e-mail is a classic marketing trick to elicit an urgency to take action. As we'll see in my next post about Catherine, even if all you have are words decent copywriting skills can be more powerful than sexy pictures.