This one came to mind pretty quickly:

Back in the 2005/06 days of EoFF, MSN was still a pretty big thing. Aside from talking on the EoFF chat a lot of members would have your hotmail handle as well.

I tried to add Psychotic on MSN and he sent me on a wild goose chase! I would add an e-mail he responded to me with, I would talk to said person, then they would be like "Nah, this is Moon Zapdos" or whoever. I caught on pretty quick when I realized he tried to give me the e-mail of someone that I already had on my messenger

I probably made about 5 new EoFF friends during the search and you know what? I don't even remember if I ended up talking to Paul on there or not.