1. Never give out personal information, name, address, phone, e-mail, place of work or school, credit card, etc.

Someone who wants to meet someone else for coffee whom they just met on the internet is kindof wierd. So is making wagers and offering to settle bets by sending money orders to total strangers. It's bait used by stalkers and all kinds of criminals, a la Nigerian spam. Don't fall for it.

Many of Samorodin's posts are addressed personally to specific people who frequent this message board. If he wanted to send private messages, why not email them? Perhaps because he hasn't been able to obtain email addresses. I am not calling him a criminal, but I also don't know him from Jack.