I’ve seen it happen on Law and Order, after Hurricane Katrina struck, and to an American woman who tried to hire a contract killer through craigslist (thanks to Kathy for the heads-up): the people involved were all done in by their words. There really is nothing wrong with interacting through email, IM, or any other medium where you words are recorded. So long as you watch what you write:
“Marie informed (one of the people who responded) that she was looking for ’silent assassins’ and she asked him to eradicate a targeted victim,” offered 5,000 dollars for the job and provided the address, name, age and occupation of the man’s wife.
“Asked what she meant by ‘eradicate,’ Anne Marie said ‘Duh. Well to have her killed,” the court documents said.
People have a tendency to forget exactly what was said in spoken conversations, but it’s a different story when your words are part of a permanent record. If you can’t handle whatever comes back to haunt you, then it’s a simple matter of not writing certain things down. And that’s where programs like Skype come in.
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