As we have said in About Online Dating, web dating can be, and probably 99% of the time is, a lot of fun. This section is not designed to scare you away from web dating or any other use of the internet. Rather it is intended to help you ensure that you never have to fall into that 1% of people who do not end up having a good experience dating on the internet. There are three general categories of individuals you can encounter on the web who represent decreasing degrees of danger or threat to your web safety, and to some extent to your psychological and even physical well being. These people are the basic scum of the earth and require your ongoing vigilance. We have divided them into three categories based not on the type of activity they engage in, which is similarly fraudulent activity based upon lies and deceit, but is rather divided according to the degree of harm they are prepared to or intending to inflict upon you. They are, from the most harmful to least harmful, the following: