IM Creepies

About twice a week for the last month, I've been getting aimless "hello?"'s from an AOL IM user named daringandbold4u. Never heard of him, no idea who it is, so naturally, I presume it's an IM Worm that's pinging its hitlist before sending its payload. Turns out, it's just a creepy guy. Below is the log for the curious and or law-enforcement types Googling his name in the event that he really is a pedophile.

Session Start (todbxxxx:daringandbold4u): Mon Jan 30 14:43:04 2006
[14:43] daringandbold4u: hey there
[14:43] daringandbold4u: asl?
[14:43] todbxxxx: hi
[14:43] daringandbold4u: aha
[14:43] daringandbold4u: you are alive.....
[14:43] todbxxxx: yes
[14:43] daringandbold4u: last time i saw you were on you wouldnct respond
[14:43] daringandbold4u: *wouldnt
[14:43] daringandbold4u: asl?
[14:44] todbxxxx: i dunno what asl means
[14:44] daringandbold4u: age?
[14:44] daringandbold4u: sex?
[14:44] daringandbold4u: Location?
[14:44] todbxxxx: um, if you don't know that, why are you talking to me
[14:44] daringandbold4u: i dont know i like to make friends
[14:44] daringandbold4u: you wanna know my asl?
[14:45] todbxxxx: by randomly IMing people?
[14:45] daringandbold4u: yea
[14:45] daringandbold4u: you dont?
[14:45] todbxxxx: that's pretty weird
[14:45] daringandbold4u: im a weird person
[14:45] todbxxxx: obviously
[14:45] daringandbold4u: lol
[14:45] daringandbold4u: so you dont want to talk?
[14:45] todbxxxx: not really
[14:45] daringandbold4u: ill leave you alone now
[14:45] daringandbold4u: bye
[14:46] todbxxxx: i was kind of hoping you were a worm
[14:46] daringandbold4u: why?"
[14:46] todbxxxx: because i'm a security researcher.
[14:46] todbxxxx: and i thought it was weird a ame would pop up on my IM at strange times of day
[14:46] daringandbold4u: oh
[14:46] daringandbold4u: what do you research?
[14:46] daringandbold4u: the internet?
[14:46] daringandbold4u: im confused
[14:47] todbxxxx: internet crime and fraud, mainly
[14:47] daringandbold4u: thats cool
[14:47] todbxxxx: i don't cover pedophiles, so don't worry.
[14:47] daringandbold4u: i want to be a forensic pathologist
[14:47] todbxxxx: that's adorable.
[14:47] daringandbold4u: so i want to work in thce crime field
[14:47] daringandbold4u: cool?
[14:47] daringandbold4u: whats adorable?
[14:48] todbxxxx: that you want to be just like on CSI
[14:48] daringandbold4u: yea
[14:48] todbxxxx: it's darling
[14:48] daringandbold4u: my dream career
[14:48] daringandbold4u: so...asl?
[14:48] daringandbold4u: :-D
[14:48] todbxxxx: 12/m/chicago
[14:48] daringandbold4u: 12?
[14:48] todbxxxx: yep
[14:49] daringandbold4u: yer kidding
[14:49] todbxxxx: nope. i'm a prodigy.
[14:49] daringandbold4u: im 17
[14:49] todbxxxx: that's great
[14:49] daringandbold4u: you dont sound like a 12 ycear old
[14:49] daringandbold4u: at all....
[14:50] todbxxxx: yeah i get that alot
[14:50] daringandbold4u: thats weird
[14:50] daringandbold4u: your not bullshitting?
[14:50] todbxxxx: negative
[14:50] daringandbold4u: holy shit
[14:50] daringandbold4u: wow!
[14:50] daringandbold4u: ttyl
[14:50] daringandbold4u: i gucess
[14:50] daringandbold4u: *guess
[14:50] todbxxxx: fab
[14:50] daringandbold4u: i gotta go for now
[14:50] *** "daringandbold4u" signed off at Mon Jan 30 14:50:53 2006.
Session Close (daringandbold4u): Mon Jan 30 14:50:56 2006

So there's my Turing test. He passed. The conversation ends with him getting blocked.