Spamming, Bots and morever

Hello everyone. So I yesterday one user messaged me(She was not in my friend list) I replied hi. Today she started-lol, soo i have an idea if ure up for a lil fun ? I thought she meant LIL WAYNE, so I replied nope, adding - do you mean Lil wayne? But her reply was-
lol i thought she was out of her mind at first, but its pretty cool actually. we work online doing private webcam shows which sounded nuts at first trust me. but i freakin luv it!!! That was the WORST ANSWER SHE COULD HAVE EVER ANSWERED! I hesitated... Took some clues from her chat and I ended up with botting and spamming/scamming program. She replied messages like she had written this for ages and did not read my messages at all. Then she said that she will "ready" and she is waiting to me in her private room. But as far as I knew that SHE WAS BOT here is my reply- I am not sure if I am interested in keeping touch with computer programs(bots).... message me when you become an Ex machina and then we might have a chance talk.
If you guys don't know what Ex machina is watch the movie it is great. Shortly it is a documentary about self intelect of robots who have body, face and everything like human and can make conversations without hesitaion.
I was happy to be messaged by a girl but after I found out her true face I was bit dissapointed... I have only one female friend But she is the best

i have a problem with a bot that keeps spamming me named v(random numbers) this happens all the time i try blocking and reporting the person but the next day they have already made a new acount with a new name. this is so anoying i block them then they make a new account so they can keep spamming. this has to be a bot and each one says "[6/4/2015 12:34:15 PM] *** NEW VIDEO MESSAGE RECEIVED! VIEW AT [edited for security] ***" plz help the blocking didnt seem to work because they kept making new acounts.

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