> In the last few hours I have received three emails from a QQ address.

> QQ is an Internet instant messaging group based in China which is
> similar to AOL's AIM, the AOL Instant messenger.

> Because of a mistake in the third message I received, I became
> suspicious. I was able to trace down the source of the emails and I
> found out that the emails actually came from an undercover police
> officer in Los Angeles.

> I was suspicious from the beginning because the emails claimed to be
> from a poorly educated 16 year old girl in a rural area near Guangzhou
> China who has a bad family life and wants to come to America.

> Actually, it was not that obvious but this was where the conversation
> was heading.

> I doubt that I would have fallen into the trap, but I am sure that
> many men will fall for lines like this one. Even a chess grandmaster
> who should have known better fell into an Internet sting like this one
> and faced life imprisonment a few years ago, but fortunately was found
> not guilty by the jury.

> (I will not repeat the name of that person but everybody knows it.)

> What makes my case different is that they were using a server based in
> Mainland China. I think that the Chinese authorities should officially
> object and protest to the Los Angeles police using their servers in
> this way.

> Sam Sloan