Chatango Survival Guide, continued.

Chapter 7. Shady Business.

Chatango is a place you go to shot the shit with people, talking about random topics that have no real bearing with your life and problems. It is the site you go to when you are in need of a girl, guy, furry, or some combination of these to get you high and make you forget about the horrible day you have had. This site is for you to find like-minded people who desire to play games with you, whether that be RP or a match on the current game of the day.

One thing that Chatango is NOT, is a place for you to do business in. Unless you are making transactions with Chatango directly, you are very likely to waste your time, money, and even your privacy to the people that you try to bargain with on here.

Let me make things as simple as possible for you to understand.

DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, CONDUCT BUSINESS WITH OTHER PEOPLE ON CHATANGO. IN NO WAY SHOULD YOU EVER ENGAGE IN MONETARY TRANSACTIONS OR BARTERING WITH PEOPLE ON CHATANGO.

To try and purchase services or goods from a random person on this site is a LOT like going to a drug dealer to purchase a hit. There is a high likelihood that you will end up with nothing and will be left hanging without the promised goods ever being given. The people on this site are very knavish and slippery when it comes to business transactions or trades of any kind. Once you give them money, pictures, or whatever, expect them to block you or just cut off communications and act like you don't exist. Whatever you gave to them is THEIRS, now. Worst of all, you cannot get your money back.

If you gave money to a person through paypal, once it is sent, you CANNOT get a refund. At best, you can report the email you sent it to for Fraud, as well as flag the name on Chatango that defrauded you.

With all that preamble out of the way, let me tell you of the types of shysters, oh, I mean "businesspeople" you will find on here.

1. Name Sellers
The most common type of Conman you will find are people who sell Accounts on Chatango. These people hoard good, eye-catching names and sell them for money. The price can range from as little as 5-10 dollars, and go as high as 1,000 dollars; sometimes they sell them at even higher prices. These people will also welcome trades, wherein you trade an account of yours for one of theirs.

As a rule of thumb, NEVER BUY OR TRADE NAMES OFF ANOTHER PERSON.

Unless you are intimately close with that person, have talked to them for a long time, and built a high level of trust... and even then, don't be quick to pull out your E-wallet.

The most likely outcome will be that the Seller will block and flag you after the money is given. You will be given nothing but the agonizing realization that you have just gotten scammed out of your hard earned money or credit. There goes last week's paycheck.

2. Pic/Video sellers.
The dumber yet still successful shyster are the people who sell pics and videos of themselves. Most of these are girls; well, at least they will tell you that they are. They may give you a free picture or two to whet your appetite and induce you to pull out that credit card, and then they will ask you to pay X amount of dollars for lewder photographs/videos of themselves. In some cases, they will even offer 1v1 Cam-Chat for a fee.

Just how STUPID do you have to be to fall for this? Even on the rare occasion that the seller DOES give you the pictures you desire, you are still wasting your money.

There's a site called Pornhub; it is a wonderful place where you can access millions of different pornographic videos FOR FREE.

Want sexy pics of girls, there are many Adult Servers on discord that have channels dedicated to showing off raunchy pics of men and women of all shapes and sizes. If you have adblocker and a good antivirus, you can look up girl pics on google, bing, or whatever search engine you rely on. You might just find the ORIGINAL images/videos that the con artist was going to (pretend) to sell to you. Again, this is for FREE (save for the possible virus/trojan/Ransomware you may end up contracting if you visit the wrong site).

Do you want to live chat with a girl? There are plenty of LEGITIMATE sites for you to purchase group livestreams or 1v1 sessions with REAL girls. Livejasmin.com is the most popular example of this.

And if real life girls aren't your thing; get onto Gelbooru.com for TENS OF MILLIONS of images; ALL FOR FREE (well.... that site does have very obnoxious ads that eat up huge amounts of Ram and can choke up weaker computers).

Whatever you do. DO NOT buy pictures/videos/cam sessions with the girl you've just come across on "Meet People".

You may as well answer that spam email from that busty African Princess that is in need of money, who will reward you with pics for your hard work and credit card number.

3.E-Prostitutes

Now, this one is more of a gray area in terms of legitimacy. There are a couple of people on here who will require you to PAY money in order to RP or ERP with them. They usually will not accept RP from you until the money is sent. Typically, you can easily find a partner who is more than willing to ERP with you for free, though results may vary on how good they can write.

If you want to gamble your money away on someone who may not be genuine in what they offer, dispute the lowest price possible at first. That way, if you do end up getting blocked and flagged upon sending the money, you will have at least sent a minuscule amount of e-bucks.

Try to request a sample post from the person you are dealing with, just so you know how competent they are. That way, you can determine whether or not they have the skills you seek. If a person declines to give you such basic information or insists that you first pay them up, step back and say "no". The people on Chatango care for MONEY, first; integrity and the desires of the client are extraneous to them.

As I have dealt with a couple of E prostitutes (because hey, I have money to spare,) let me show you one such woman who has proved herself to be trustworthy and caring.

"Reliefofficeronyx"
She is one of the few examples of a proper E-Prostitute. Granted, she does not come online as often as she used to, and her motivation these days are close to moot. At least she has the integrity to tell you whether or not she seeks to do business with you.
http://reliefofficeronyx.chatango.com/

For everyone else, just remember that you can get plenty of GOOD Erp for FREE on this site. You just need to be patient and diligent.

4. Phishing Scammers/Thot Bots

You receive a message out of the blue from someone you have never met before. On checking their profile, you can see that they have an RL girl as their picture; she looks quite sexy. The content of the profile states that they are seeking people to come over to her "Livestream" or "Cam Chat" to have some fun.

As for the message, itself, she either says "hello" or asks how you're doing. Sometimes, they get straight to the point. They are "looking for some fun" and need you to come over to a site where they are holding a livestream, one on one cam chat, or whatever requires you to leave chatango.

Though you may mistake this person for a Cam Girl or Pic Seller, they are not; this person is even worse than them. What you have here is a Thot Bot, a shyster (who is OFTEN a man,) proclaiming to be a lonely, horny woman in need of someone to pass the time with. Said "fun" is typically the 18+ kind.

As part of the scam, you will be given a link to go to the "cam show". Whatever you do, DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK. Why?

Because; IT IS A SCAM!

A phishing scam, to be more specific. In the split second you click that link, you will be taken to a phony site that will either require you to input credientials and important information, or even worse, infect you with malware that will Doxx you and give the Con artist your Identity, Bank Information, Passwords, and so on. Rather than getting the Cam show or telephone chat you were promised, you now have to scramble to freeze your bank accounts, file reports to the police for Fraud/ID theft, and run antivirus to scan your entire computer. You better act quickly, as these types of shysters can deplete your bank account and do ALL sorts of illegal things in YOUR legal name, in a very short amount of time.

In some cases, the scammer will install Crypto-Currency miners onto your computer that leads to MASSIVE slowdowns, often to the point that it can take hours to run basic programs; or, they can install a rootkit that enables them to covertly use your computer as a Drone/Proxy to achieve all sorts of underhanded tasks. If the Feds try to track down the source of the cybercrime, expect YOUR computer to show up in their radar instead of that belonging to the real crooks.

If you are lucky, you will get away with the light trespass of having your Chatango account stolen. These brand of shysters are called "Name Jackers"

Now that you know the consequences, let me tell you how to spot a Thot Bot.

The reason why I call them Thot Bots is because, in almost every circumstance, the phony account messaging you is NOT run by a real person. There is actually a Bot behind the name, automatically sending predefined messages to you. It does not matter what you say or how you say it, for the Thor Bot will always give the same response. Keeping a lookout for this is the best way to spot one.

You can literally post nothing but dots, Swear words, or even apihaspjfaspoarpodsjafpsjf's, and you will STILL get a proper response from the name. Granted, it will not be sent immediately; it will wait a minute before sending the message to emulate the human trait of thinking and typing.

So, a great test to see whether or not you're dealing with a Thot Bot is to do just that; make incoherent, inappropriate, or BLANK replies to see if the next scripted message is triggered.

Otherwise, BLOCK AND FLAG the account; they're just bots anyway, so there is no harm in slamming the hammer down on them.

Chapter 8. Expiration Date

If you come on chatango to search for friends, lovers, butt buddies, or SOMETHING that will last for a long amount of time, I have bad news for you. In this site, it is far from easy to get friends. It is even harder to keep them. No matter what you are told by them, or how much fun the RP is, for one reason or another, they disappear. They leave without a trace, and never come back. You watch as the "last seen" number next to their name grow more and more, eventually reaching and capping off at 100 days. All you have left are the logs you and that person had made.

You need to toughen up to the grim reality that pervades this community; a lot of the people you will meet will either consciously or unconsciously abandon you, and there is nothing you can do to stop it.

Let me try to be positive, here. Let us say that the person you have approached is a good partner. Even better, they do NOT vanish from chatango; they end up appearing quite regularly. You both enjoy one another's company and have written a kickass RP that is detailed and well written. What could possibly go wrong?

One day, you go to their name to drop a message, like you always did. They do not respond. Perhaps they are busy right now or chatango ate your post since they/you are on the mobile app. No problem, just get to them the next time they come on.

The next day arrives, and you message them once more. Still no response. That's strange; you two have been so avid in conversation in the past year, and it usually did not take more than two messages on separate occasions to net a response... What is going on?

You decide to wait until the next day. Then, you drop another message to them. Still no response. They are online, and they even changed their profile picture and content. So, you know for sure that they are still active.

So then, what's taking them so long to speak back to you? Didn't they say they're "proud to be your friend"?

Days turn into weeks, and weeks turn into months. You continue to drop the occasional "hello" or question as to what they are up to. Though despite your modest efforts, you never receive an answer. It is as if to them, you ceased to exist. All of those conversations, all of that RP, all of those excited words you have exchanged from them... what has it come to, now?

You message them one more time, several months after the radio silence had begun... Oh, what's this? You finally got a response!

It's, It's.....

It's a BLOCK! You just got blocked by the person whom you thought was your best RP buddy and confidant.

You couldn't believe what had happened. To confirm this, you go onto "meet people" and type down their name. They show up as "online" in the catalog, but turn offline in the instant you click on their name.

You send other people to speak on your behalf, but they either tell you that they got blocked as well, or ignored altogether.

What had happened? I'll tell you what happened.

On ALL RP platforms and communities, there is this thing called an "Expiration Date". It's never explicitly stated, nor is it ever openly acknowledged. However, you cannot underestimate the power this untold of thing holds over Partners, RPs, and relationships. No matter how you two have found each other. No matter how much fun you have had in the past. No matter how well made, detailed, and carefully planned your RP was.

When the Expiration Date arrives.

It's OVER.

Suddenly, like the flick of a switch, your partner loses all interest in you. Their memories of you fade. Their proclivities drift further and further away from you and instead focus on other, new things. They cannot rationalize it, nor do they even know that this is happening. They unconsciously accept it, as it if is a force of nature, or the passing of night and day.

There's no turning back, for them. Though you try to remind them that they have made so much with you, they will have none of it. They will treat you like a dirty street thug, giving you the Axe instead of an explanation.

And then leave you on the cold ground, drowning in tears, blood, and shock as to what the fuck is going on.

The Expiration Date came, that's what happened. It's a given fact that all things come to an end; that death is an inevitability.

But on chat sites, it comes much sooner than expected. Relationships on chatango are highly volatile; people you thought were cool with you suddenly turn 180 degrees and ghost on you. Think I am kidding? This has happened to me several times, so far.

I've had people who came to me FIRST, often messaged me FIRST for conversation, and were on cordial terms with me; people who confided important, PERSONAL matters to me, only to suddenly Block and toss me out like our conversations meant nothing (Josefrah).

I've had people whom I have RP'd with for YEARS, and who have greatly enjoyed my company; people who worked with me to develop a great RP with incredible detail and setup, only to be Blocked after being ignored for months on end (Crescentmoonwitch, enjoymepls).

So DO NOT THINK YOU ARE EXEMPT.

Moreover... do not think that you cannot become a perpetrator, yourself. Expiration Dates apply to everyone, and its grasp on you will become known when it is time.

One day, the person you have been avidly RPing with will suddenly fade from your memories. All of the conversations and fun times you have had will lose all significance, and you will feel this strong need to go out an look for new partners; someone that will perhaps replace the one you have already established an RP with. To make some room for these newcomers, you remove that nobody you once spoke to from the Friends list.

Your partner will approach you to try and communicate with you, asking you what is going on. The desire for you to respond is surprisingly Nil. Instead, you have this deep, visceral urge to close the tab and turn your head away. You cannot understand, for the life of you, where this urge comes from and whether or not it is even from you. You cannot shake the feeling of revulsion and disgust that you suddenly have for the person you once called a friend.

You hope and pray that they will stop talking to you; forget all about you, just like what you are trying to do to them.

But what if they persist. What if, in spite of months of acting like their messages never send, they are dogged in pelting you with questions as to where you are, and if you can see their message? Apathy turns into disgust, disgust turns into anger, and anger turns into ACTION.

Without a slick of remorse in your mind, you SLAM your fist onto the block button. Then, you flag them for added measure.

Just like that, you have just come full circle. By fighting the monsters for so long, you have deformed into one, yourself.

....

Now you know. People on here cannot think; they especially are ignorant of the consequences of the simple choices they make every day. So, harden your heart and keep your shoulders sturdy. You do not know when the person you enjoy RPing with so much will suddenly have a bad case of Amnesia and walk away, OR the day when you suddenly feel empty and moot about someone you once respected and loved.

READ the Expiration Date at all times.

Chapter 9. This is not a dating website.

If you are the frivolous type who only seeks fun instead of serious matters. If you are an asexual who only wants platonic bonds with people; both of you need to be highly cautious about the type of people I am about to talk about.

One day, you may be online and searching for RP. Suddenly, you get messaged by someone who asks you for RP, or they introduce themselves to you and why they came to you. Things look innocent, so far...

You converse with them for a while or begin to RP with them, and they enjoy your company. They find you to be quite fun to be around; your RP skills are impressive and your ability to articulate is impressive. They add you to their friends' list and proceed to converse with you on a daily basis. This is nice; compared to all the people who forget about you or block you without much deliberation, this person is very considerate and amicable towards you. Why can't there be more people like that?

You begin to notice a rapidly growing attachment from them. When they were initially cordial and platonic in their approaches, they instead become more sexual, more flirtatious in their demeanor. They start to fawn over you, showering you with loving compliments; or, they begin to approach you with the expectation that you will listen to their stories, cuddle them, and tell them sweet nothings to show just how caring and considerate you are.

You do not know where this comes from, but you decide to go along with the charade; it is the "kind" thing to do, and their behavior was certainly harmless, right?..

As time progresses, they speak to you more frequently and share more information about themselves and their lives. They start entrusting you with intimate details about their past and their problems, either blatantly or subtly expecting you to mediate them on these matters or provide sound advice/consolation.

They begin to show off pictures of themselves to you and ask you to do the same. They start to show off their scars and blemishes as evidence of the struggles and traumas they disclosed to you about. They request for you to give them Skype, Discord, or Kik, for they wish to Cam with you.

What started as the mere desire to RP and chat has escalated to something much bigger and more serious; to think this happened in the span of a month, a couple of weeks, or even a few days.

You start to realize that this person has genuine feelings for you; when they say that they love you, they MEAN it. They expect you to commit to them, reciprocate the strong emotional attachment and empathy that they have for you, AND selflessly shower them in love, praise, and comforting words... at the expense of EVERYONE else you know and interact with on here.

So then... what happens when you cannot meet up with their high expectations, which came out of NOWHERE and hit you so fast? Are you going to make sacrifices to your social and personal life to accommodate this still fresh acquaintance who is now clinging onto you for dear life?

No, more often than not, you flounder about and find their sudden obsession over you to be quite daunting. When they see that you are unfaithful or lack the emotional capacity to care, they turn from Sweet Angels to Heinous Demons in a matter of seconds.

They suddenly begin to complain, cry, and scream at you. They indict you of being inconsiderate, irresponsible, insensitive, a "player," a "heartless" drone, and so many other slanderous words. They will attack your character, and vehemently harangue you over the problems (whether real or projected,) that you have. They will acct like you have been married to them for years, despite the fact that they've only been with you for less than a year if not less than a few months.

You are bamboozled as to how they have come to this since you have never dealt with this type of person before. You attempt to be kind and logical to explain your side, but they do not give the slightest fuck; their intense emotions override any logic and rationality they have, making them act impulsively and in a volatile matter. Things only get worse, from here.

They go on a Smear Campaign, messaging a bunch of random people (OR your friends and contacts, IF you were foolish enough to share them with to the clinger OR discuss to them about said person. Now, they successfully rallied some of your friends against you. They join in on the harangues and lambasting before Blocking and Flagging your account; there goes a lot of good RPers whom you thought were tight with.

EVEN WORSE than this; they go to the kitchen and take out the Chef's knife. Then they come to you and say that they will commit suicide in YOUR NAME (and perhaps livestream it,) unless you apologize OR cut off EVERYONE else you have REAL FEELINGS FOR/ATTACHMENT TO.

HOW DID THINGS END UP THIS BAD?

You have just encountered an E-Yandere, a person (OFTEN a woman,) who comes on this site looking for REAL RELATIONSHIPS and REAL LOVE. People who are manipulative, obsessive, and aggressive in their nature. These people are PARTLY responsible for why a LOT of people on chatango will Block you after you message them for the first time; terrible memories of these Clingy cretins still linger in their mind, and they will no longer take ANY chances.

They think Chatango is an E-Dating website, and that everyone they meet on the site is looking for Love or a relationship.

Here is how you spot one of these Wolves in sheep's clothing.

-They are the first to message you, AND they often come to you first; you almost never have to lay down the first message. They also act giddy, clingy, and infatuated in their introductory messages.

-In a short amount of time, they begin to flirt with you, put on sexually attractive profile pics, start acting like you've known them for a while.

-They will either overtly or subtly conduct themselves in messages or RP posts to convey that they desire intimate or loving actions from you, like kisses, belly rubs, princess carries.. this is despite you wanting to keep things non-romantic or serious.

-They openly share pictures of themselves without even asking, or they request for you to give your skype, discord, kik, or some other medium for Cam sessions of phone calls.

-They mention you by name in their account information and do so in a positive manner.

If you see any of these from the person you have just met, you have yourself an E-Yandere. Do NOT be afraid to put your foot down and stand your ground. Do NOT be afraid to block and flag them, EVEN without offering an explanation. Trust me, things will NOT work out between you and them unless you have absolutely NO ONE else in your life that means a damn to you; even then, they can be too much to handle.

When you see the warning signs, drop the "good guy" act and speak to them in Bold, red text.

"I am NOT looking for a relationship outside of Chatango. What happens in RP, STAYS in RP. I do not welcome ANY RL attachments or discussions. I am only here to RP and shoot the shit; I am not here to E-Date someone. If that was the case, I would be in e-harmony, match.com, or even fucking Craigslist."

If they pretend like they understand (but deep down, they will still try to wring their arm around your neck and drag you into their personal life/shit,) or is they start to argue and dispute your claims.

BLOCK AND FLAG THEM.

Trust me; you will be saving yourself (AND the unthinking oaf,) a lot of heartaches. Do not underestimate the EXTREME amount of damage they can cause to you mentally, emotionally, and even physically.

Do not make the same mistake as me. These emotionally unstable creeps need to know that this ISN'T the site for them, and they should stick to Real life or Dating sites to find true love...