Was this written by a 10 year old ?

[Guthix]

in your honest opionion do you think the following below was written by a 10 year old boy ?

hi ****, my name is dustin. i am friends with scooby and the cyber-kids bulletin boards belong to me. in fact, scooby is also my teacher here at the daily "computer daycamp" all summer.

as you can see, we are in the process of moving everyone over from the current board to the new location where you registered yourself the other day. i also know that you sent a message to scooby last month and he ignored it. that was cuz i asked him to. let me explain...

cybner-kids is about a dozen active guys between 10 and 14 at the moment. you can find more about it here from my website that i use when i make a new penpal. AAAkids.net/dustin/board.html

like all penpal matters, there have always been plenty of others who asked to be registered (i have never allowed self-registration like on most forums) but never understood forums (all the know is email) or found ous boring or something. not active users or members of what we call our "family". great guys, good friends.

in order to keep it "safe" for the little ones (i once thought that younger kids would want to participate also) i went to extremes to keep it secret and safe with no outsiders, no fakes, no mature discussions). now as we are all a year older, and the idea of little brothers and younger members didnt happen so much, we are probably going to open up a little.

we have two enemies however. one was a former member, the other his new best-friend who has been a victim of fraudlent penpels in the past, and is convinced that anyone that reads and writes well, is intelligent, must be a fake. well everyone has their own opinion, and thats ok. but when they start spreading their crap around and emailing my friends trying to cause me problems, i have to call them enemies, attackers, and look out for attempts to cause me more trouble.

our first cyber-kids board was at invisionfree, a free board service, and they complained about us to invisionfree that we were not following the invisionfree rules. kids under 13 are not allowed to own, run, or participate in invisionfree forums. we had to turn off posting and remove birthdays and email addresses so that they would leave it up. just for historical purposes.

so we had a crisis. we paid big money for a year of hosting where we talked to the host and they told us that they didnt care. it was my responsibility, and the new laws only applied to companies, not to individuals like me.

but we cant afford to continue that, so now we have a server and a board that is completely safe, hosted by our own paid servers and safe and permanent. all the members are worried about staying together in the years to come. thats just how they are.

our attackers have tried to attack us, sneak in, cause problems, and tell lies many times. they live in scotland and england. so when scooby got your first message, i told him to ignore it cuz i just dont understand where you came from. i was/am suspicious. not the first time they have tried to join cyber-kids.

how did you know about cyberkidshome.com??? how did you know that there were "boards" (plural) involved??? yes, suspicious. we like to think that all this is kinda secret and private. in the creation of the new board, i had not turned off the auto-registration yet. the fact that you started posting immediately shows that maybe you are not a trouble-maker :-)

for one thing, neither one of them use bethere.co.uk as their internet provider. that means a lot. the fact that we are constantly looking to find new guys that want friends as much as we do, thats also something we need to be aware of. we are becoming less careful, less picky, less secret as we get older and widen our services to our members.

if you are one of them, trying to sneak in, let me suggest that we talk openly about our differences and how we might change all that.

if you are not, and just somehow found out about us, please help me understand how that happened. i am sorry to treat anyone this way, but i am not going to let anyone or anything threaten my friends. cyber-kids is very important to us.

you are a member now of the new board, and i welcome you there. i will be moving old topics over to the new board in the remaining weeks of the summer. and then finally we will formerly move all the members over. the current board will disappear in december (when we no longer pay for it).

please write to me personally and lets get to know each other. please help me to understand, and please dont be scared off by all this "careful" attitude. i really try to take care of my e-friends.

thank you

dustin

*******************************************Website: AAAkids.net/dustin

the reason i ask is because there is a man called "scooby" who claims to be a computer camp teacher and hes very close to a boy called "dustin" who is 10 years old but the typing and grammer appear to match "scooby" but 2 boys who came to me are suspecting that this man is infact the child dustin he claims to work in little rock usa.

take a look at the so called pictures of the kid and the blog

here

www.cyberkidshome.com/dustin/blog.html i did ask meercat sometime ago to investigate this but hes gone off from the boards for a while, i'm asking someone who can investigate to help me find the truth of this man. I did tell dave a while back and he said its definetly an adult's writing and he would investigate further.

thank you, if you need more evidence i can provide it

[Mr. Jon Donnis]

If that is really a 10 year old kid, then his spelling and grammar are pretty decent.

[Guthix]

Jul 22, 2008 17:11:25 GMT Mr. Jon Donnis said:

If that is really a 10 year old kid, then his spelling and grammar are pretty decent.

Its exactly why i'm thinking it isnt, my nephew is 11 years old and his grammer is no where at the level this child is at.

[xavierp]

Reading it, it seems that he is either a very precocious 10 year old, a 10 year old who has someone else write for him or an adult. Which pretty much runs the range of it all and gets you nowhere! I ran a whois on cyberkidshome.com and on aakids.net but gained no useful info. Very odd site/person.

[BeamStalk]

Agreeing with the others. What info do you have him? I live sort of close to little rock and could probably find out more.

Edit: just pm if you don't feel comfortable posting it here.

[mookster]

Hmmm, i smell a rat

[Guthix]

Jul 22, 2008 18:54:51 GMT BeamStalk said:

Agreeing with the others. What info do you have him? I live sort of close to little rock and could probably find out more.

Edit: just pm if you don't feel comfortable posting it here.

from an ip address search it shows him living in little rock, now i found a website on the local school district which he claims he and this scooby guy teaches, what would be an idea if someone was to fax the pics of the kid to all the schools in that area to find out how long he was a student there or if he is currently.

www.lrsd.org/

At time of posting the link its down for maintainence, beamstalk i will pm you some ip address images of this guy as you might be able to confirm his location.

thanks

[exile]

Kids don't write such long sentences or use phrases and words like 'mature discussions' or 'participate'.

It could be that a parent or other has helped them write it, but it seems doubtful in the way it has been made to look like a kid has written it with the lack of Capitals, yet the 'kid' uses brackets and slashes better than many adult woo forum members!!

[fruitbat]

I would definitely go with that being written by an adult.

However my daughter's best friend is 9 next month and she talks like that. It is scary. She reads encylopedias as a hobby!!!

I hoping a little of the enthusiasm will rub off onto my daughter who is only interested in boys and clothes....oh and High School Musica ;D

[mistral]

I definitely think they are the same person. Why would someone do that though?

[Guthix]

Jul 23, 2008 8:23:29 GMT mistral said:

I definitely think they are the same person. Why would someone do that though?

Well meercat said it could be something to do with obtaining money from the kids that this man is talking too i did notice that he only talks to little boys between ages of 8 to 12, i guess the older ones are too smart for this pervert.

I just want to expose this man to the kids that hes a pervert and not the child he claims to be. there is too much against him to say he is an adult posing as a kid the grammer and spelling are a big give away.

please help me expose this man

[fluffet]

There is something very weird about all of this , ive read all the entries in "Dustins" blog and if that really is a ten year old kid writing then if i was his mother id be worried as it seems he really is obsessed with the internet, this scooby and the "attackers" as he calls them on the old site .
To me these "attackers" seem more like concerned people worried by the set up of this forum and the fact most of its members were under 13 and freely able to be influenced by this scooby character or is it wonderboy ?
Theres so much thats worrying here i dont know where to begin , when you read all the entries and whats gone on previously it smacks of grooming if this really is a kid writing and not scooby himself posing as a kid to get other kids to join .
The grammar and spelling is exceptional for a child of ten , but that aside its the words used , the phrasing and style that to me are the real give away that this isnt coming from the mind of an everyday 10 year old kid .
Why would an older man take such an interest in young boys secret online forum ?
Why would he gift a new forum to a ten year old kid when obviously the last one had serious problems with its members reporting it ?
An adult overseeing this would nip it in the bud and do everything they could to put any concerns or worrys parents had to rest , not wage a war of words , encourage the kid to treat them as "attackers" and post childish rants against them bragging about their new site ?
cyberkidshome.com/scoobytalk.html
I mean hes practically rubbing thier nose in it in the rant above that despite their efforts to shut them down they are still going on this new provider .
There is no mention of any girl members whatsover i noticed so its aimed soley at young boys from 7 up , the "computer day camp " the boy talks of seems to be more like a makeshift set up as he never mentions if its at a school or centre and he mentions that "scooby" is also thier babysitter of sorts three days a week in breaks presumably from college so the man has contact with these kids unsupervised .
I checked the little rock kids site www.littlerockfamily.com/guide_camp.asp that lists all official camps run for kids and there are a few computer based ones which this scooby may work at but i have a feeling its not an offical camp as such more a set up the kids home whilst he babysits them during the day .
I see he's got the kid to change his email address too to a provider thats private and pay only which is weird as why would a kid need an account like this , one that you cant search the users of unless you pay to join ? Why all the privacy and secrecy for a ten year old ?
Also i note the provider the kids now on for email is part of the one that this scooby is on and somewhere in his blog he mentions that scooby says he knows the owner ?
The isp is private register as well so and doesnt name the person who registered it only the company that holds it for them .
The weirdest thing of all is the fact that this scooby guy at no point identifies himself by his real name , his age , where he is at college or teaches or anything else .
Surely if he was a real teacher or college student tutor he would be very aware of how suspicious a older mans involvement with all these young boys in secret forums would be to anyone looking in and would if genuine be keen to make sure no one could take it the wrong way and so be very open and free with his involvment and identity ?
I really hope someone on here can check this out further ....my isp knowledge ends at whois unfortuntly but im sure theres plenty people here could dig a bit further .

[Guthix]

Thank you for your post fluffet i share the same concerns, i am not a parent (yet) but i do have a niece and a nephew and i would be very concerned if a man had a interest in him like this "scooby" does and encourage him to set up a secret board just for preteen boys, i too noticed there are no girls on this forum but only little boys....its very worrying indeed, what also gives me cause for concern is the grammer and typing of this "child" as it appears to be very advanced and some of the stuff he says is more of the thinking of an adult then of a child.


I would like to involve the police into this but at the moment we dont have enough evidence to show them that this guy is a great concern. there are so many questions that i would like to ask this man.

I hope we can find more about this man just like the guys who inveatigated craig shell for example because with the help of badpsychics that man served time in prison for his crimes.

[Dippy]

I wouldn't allow my children to use this site. There should be no need to ask for Name and age when asking a question.

www.cyberkidshome.com/welcome_to_our_site.html

[mookster]

WTF, Its a very big concern. I think there is something more sinister going on here.

[mue]

Very worrying.

[Kim]

This is clearly a pervert grooming young boys and needs to be stopped!

[julia]

It sounds fishy to me. I've sent the following e-mail to the Little Rock Police:

"Dear Sir/Madam,

I would like to draw your attention to the following website with a Little Rock connection:

AAAkids.net/dustin

I first heard about this very odd site via moh2005.proboards78.com/index.cgi?board=genot&action=display&thread=5186. In common with the other posters here I am disturbed by the unchildlike tone of "Dustin"'s blog, the mystery surrounding the idenity of "Scooby" and the existence of a secret forum for pre-teen boys - there seem to be no girls at Scooby's computer camp."

I'll keep you all informed if and when I get a reply.

[BeamStalk]

His IP doesn't trace to Little Rock though Julia. I am actually getting in contact with Perverted Justice as this more of something they can handle. I have taken it about as far as I can.

[Guthix]

Actually julia is correct as one of the ips does originate in little rock usa, so thank you julia for taking the time to do that, It might be worth somehow sending the images of the boy in the blog to local schools to see weather he is a current student there.

its a worth shot beamstalk as they do have experience in this kind of thing i use to be a forum member there a long time ago and i used to speak to frag on yahoo messenger a few times.

the ip address is 208.70.74.14 or try 71.143.168.123

the second ip address goes to little rock in the usa