A Typical Perverted-Justice "Bust" Scenario

PJ "busts" are generally carried out in the "regional" areas of the popular "Yahoo Chat". (Other chat rooms are also used, but Yahoo appears to be the most common)

In a typical scenario, a PJ baiter will create a Yahoo account using a "young-sounding" screen-name. They will complete a personal online profile with false information, indicating that they are a young girl. (Generally between 11 - 15 years of age)

Most PJ baiters are known to have upwards of 30 different Yahoo screen-names, with some boasting of hundreds. Any screen name can be used at any time.

The PJ baiter will enter a regional chat room and wait for an "IM" (instant message). As part of the chat room software, a list of all current room users is displayed.

Connected users may either chat publicly within the room, or choose one of the members in the user list to chat privately with.

When another chat room user sends an IM, a new window appears on the screen of the PJ baiter that can then be used to type and receive "private" messages between the two.

It should be noted that while PJ baiters are always clear in stating that they never initiate a chat (and the newer saved chat logs generally bear this out) there is no possible way to account for any conversation which may have occurred in the PUBLIC "room" prior to the initiation of the private chat. The chat recording software records only the private portion of the chat. It is quite possible (and in our opinion, likely) that in some cases, the "bust" was in fact "solicited" first in the public area of the room prior to engaging in a private chat with the PJ baiter) There is also considerable evidence that in a number of older cases, PJers did actually initiate the chat.

The PJ baiter will then begin to engage the other party in an online chat session. Generally, at first the conversation is innocuous, but becomes progressively more sexual in nature as the chat progresses, very often due to the prodding or "baiting" by the PJ baiter. (In a number of recent "busts", the other party actually made NO direct references to anything even remotely sexual. All sexual references were made by the PJ baiter throughout the entire course of the chat.) Regardless of the intent of the other party, the final result is always the same, a "bust" by PJ and the ensuing public humiliation and harassment.

Throughout the chat, the PJ baiter will attempt to gain various personal details about the other party.

In virtually all cases, the PJ baiter will offer to send digital photos of "themselves" to the other party. The actual photos are a very strongly guarded secret at PJ, and to date, none have been released publicly that we are aware of. There have been many statements from PJ Targets that the images in the photos very often appear to be far older than the age being presented by the PJ baiter. Most of the evidence we have gathered points to PJers "borrowing" random children's photos from various Internet sites to use in their faked profiles without the permission of the owner of the photograph.

Once the PJ baiter is convinced of having enough information, they will offer to telephone the other party, usually under the guise of "wanting to hear their voice" or "to see what they sound like". The other party's telephone number is given, and the baiter immediately contacts a Phone Verifier with general information about the PJ Target, the phone number, and any other details required.

The phone verifier calls the PJ Target, being careful to block their phone number or use a calling-card, assuming the online identity of the PJ baiter. The telephone conversations are generally very short, just long enough to confirm the phone number and to possibly try to get more information from the PJ Target.

In some cases, PJ Targets are invited to the "girl's home" by the PJ baiter with the understanding that they are being invited for sexual reasons. Usually, they are given a false address. In some cases, particularly for "Media Busts", a real address is used. When the PJ Target arrives at the address, they are greeted by a television camera crew from the local news station. In other cases, it is suggested to the PJ Targets that they initially meet at a public place such as a local mall or McDonalds restaurant.

It should be noted that in the many conversations which we have had with the PJ Targets after the "bust", the PJ Targets stated that they truly believed they were chatting with an adult who was simply role-playing.

Once the conversation is finished, the PJ baiter saves the chat log to their hard drive, then loads it into a text editor for the purpose of adding witty banter and explanations to various lines within the content of the chat log. (e.g. "What this perv said here was enough to make me puke!" and "This guy is a real baby-f***er, let's string him up!")

After comments have been added, the chat log is submitted to the PJ administrators for public posting on the main "busts" page.

Once posted, the members or PJ baiters immediately create a new forum topic in the Follow Up and Reactions forum using the "bust's" screen name as the topic subject.

The PJ members then begin to search the internet for any available personal information about the "bust" All information gathered, whether confirmed or not, is immediately acted upon by using it to find more information, and to begin the task of harassing the "bust" and everyone associated with him (family, employers, neighbors, children, etc.) in earnest.