...Because it's easier to make this mistake than 
you think.

Believe it or not, alot of people, even web-
savvy people, have made foolish errors in 
dealing with the web.  I've been the victim of 
this kind of thing once before...and never 
again, but at the same at which it happened, I'd 
considered myself a reasonably well-versed 
internet surfer.

In my case, the form I was sent was supposed 
through yahoo.  Hell, the URL was even yahoo.com 
sponsored, yet it still turned out to be a 
hoax.  Now, I got off lucky in that I hadn't 
really revealed anything particularly personal, 
but it still happens.

People make mistakes.  It happens.  Sometimes 
we're more trusting than we're supposed to be, 
sometimes it we just do it without even 
thinking.  It doesn't mean we're "stupid."  We 
may have made a "stupid" mistake, but that 
doesn't it's our general state.

Yes, to a degree, I was to blame for what 
happened back then, and to a degree, this 
individual is to blame as well.  However, we 
were both deceived by another person as well, so 
the blame falls to them a bit of the way as 
well.  They took advantage of us - however 
foolhardy we were to let them - and so they are 
not innocent either.

Thus I say making a claim that fancels.org 
deserves this is absolutely ridiculous...and its 
cruel and rather nasty.  She didn't HAVE to warn 
us.  She could have just done this through email 
or not even told us at all.  She put her 
reputation on the line just to make sure a 
person wasn't cheated.  I think that's 
commendable, and I don't find her at too much of 
a fault for being upset and passionate in her 
responses.  She's been hurt, deceived, and 
instead of lending even a few words of 
consolation alongside the rationale of your 
explanations, some of you threw in some rather 
unkind comments.

I'm not trying to say anyone here is wrong in 
the sense that your arguments are incorrect.  
You've all made valid points in your statements, 
but from the perspective who only visits this 
forum occasionally and has no personal 
connections to anyone here, seeing this from an 
objective perspective is rather discouraging.  
Yes, we all have opinions on this matter, and 
you may not sympathize entirely with 
fancels.org; however, disagreement and personal 
opinion does not give anyone the right to insult 
another person.

-Chaotic Serenity