I wrote here about a “prank” (read: litigation waiting to happen, if it hasn’t already been started) in which someone posted a bogus sex ad on Craigslist and then posted private information about respondents.

A Daily Dose of Queer reader (thanks, reader!) wrote to us that another person pulled such a stunt; he directed us to this article. Michael Crook picked up where Fortuny left off.

[Crook] also made the additional effort of replying to his respondents to extract even more-embarrassing emails, and sometimes even instant messaging them. He also did online research, looking up their phone numbers and often claiming to have deduced the identities of his victims. “Check out this magazine article from a couple years ago, where he is in a picture with his wife and the guy whose name he used…” He apparently conned the (possibly married) man into sending a photo of his erection — then sent him one last email asking why he was trolling for girls on the internet and cheating on his wife. “What do you think your wife and co-workers’ reaction will be when they find out?” he asks. (Adding that their answers, “along with your pics, will be posted for all to see on craigslist-perverts.org.”)

Crook also added some homophobia to the mix.

He claims he’s enjoying “exposing the perverts” and “pathetic men” responding to the ads. “I just wanted to see what kind of people would respond on a site like Craigslist, which is known for carrying ads from prostitutes,” he writes. But he’s also published the names of their wives, and in one case Googled the name of a respondent, then claimed it [he?] appeared on other dating sites “including fag sites.”