Stalkers

Canada
May 4, 2007 11:34am CST
Has anyone had a stalker? Real life or on the Net? What have you done about it? I ask because right now I have a minor issue with a stalker on the Net. I don't know what i can do from a legal standpoint because he hasn't threatened me or anything, he is just harrassing me. I change my email address etc... but he continues to find me and bother me. I ahve blocked him on my msn but he somehow finds a way to unblock himself. He is a techie nerdy guy and he somehow keeps getting access to my computer as well. Anyone have an issue like this?
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12 responses
@prestocaro (1251)
• United States
4 May 07
I had a net stalker that turned into a real life stalker. This was about 8 years ago and my family had just gotten the unlimited AOL package. I used to love chat rooms about music and there was a really creepy guy that would, I swear, follow me from chat to chat. He IMed me a few times and I didn't like him so I wouldn't respond. He studied my profile and figured out where I worked from it and showed up one day. I was really shaken and told him to leave. He did leave but came back when I wasn't there. Some IDIOT coworker of mine gave him my HOME PHONE NUMBER and he called me. Luckily, my dad was home and completely grilled him. That was enough to scare him away. The only advice I can give you is to keep track of everything he does to you. Buy a notebook and list the date and time along with a description. Your response to him should always be "Leave me alone. I want no contact with you" or something along those lines -- short, curt, not engaging him in any way. This way if you need to seek outside help from the police or a lawyer you have evidence. You may want to print his messages to you as well. Good luck! STay SaNE!
• United States
7 May 07
Most companies have a policy forbidding giving out employees' names & addresses & home phone numbers of co-workers. I'm thinking get that employee fired. Furthermore, it might even be a breach of privacy that can be pursued. Try consulting a lawyer.
• Canada
4 May 07
I Like the advice of stay sane. sigh. This guy will pop around bother me and then disappear for months then he comes back with a vengence and terrorises me and then disappears....I am sorry for you having to go through what you did but at least your dad stopped it.
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@xfahctor (14113)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
4 May 07
BABY?!!!!!! Why didnt you tell me about this? I just wrote you and am waiting to hear back. Please fill me in on the rest of the story and tell me who he is and I'll take care of it.
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• Canada
4 May 07
I think he hacked your stuff too now hunnie. I am so sorry to bring you into this.
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@Marie2473 (8512)
• Sweden
5 May 07
I have been stalked by my ex, luckily it has stopped coz he was really starting to scare me. If he is breaking into your computer he is commiting a crime and for this u can report him to the police and they will track him down for you. Stalkers are nasty and they need to be dealt with
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@Darkwing (21583)
5 May 07
You can report him to MSN for abuse. I think this means abuse of priveledge rather than anything, and it may get him banned from MSN, but for your peace of mind, that is what I'd do. You could have blocked him on your e-mail too, or did you try that? There's no reason why you should have to put up with somebody stalking you online. I have had the problem in real life. That was bad enough, but I would think it's even worse on the net, especially if you don't really know who they are and if you don't do something fairly soon, then he'll just carry on. Good luck with this, my friend. Brightest Blessings.
@Darkwing (21583)
5 May 07
In the light of him being so adept on the computer, I would think reporting him to MSN, Yahoo and other messenger sites he might find you on, is your best bet. I really don't like MSN's messenger security. Somebody hacked into a male friend of mine's a year or so back and cleared his whole MSN Space, which had quite a lot in it. How did they do that, and how did they get into his messenger? I saw his name physically change in front of my very eyes, on my buddy list. So, I would question MSN's security. I hope you can get this sorted out because it's not fun fearing the computer and what might happen every time you switch it on. Take care, sweetie and Brightest Blessings to you.
• Canada
5 May 07
Thank you for your advice. I have blocked him on my msn and deleted him and I have blocked him from my email but he keeps unblocking himself sometimes. I dno't know how. He is smart with computers. But I will get into connection with MSN like you have suggested and see what I can do about this. I hadn't thought about that.
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@Whisp1976 (488)
• United States
4 May 07
I once went out on a few dates with this man before deciding I didn't like him because I thought there was something creepy. Unfortunately, he had my cell phone mumber. He didn't handle rejection very well and began to plague me with text messages and phone calls. He actually called me ninety times in the space of two hours one night, despite the fact that I wasn't answering his calls. After a while this man's behaviour really began to stress me out, and so I changed my cell phone number. However, the man in question knew my regular huants and would find me there and make harrassing comments. This went on well into the time after I had met my now-husband. It did not stop until my husband had serious words with him.
@kameking (78)
• Indonesia
5 May 07
maybe the stalker was someone who realy know you in real life, maybe it was your friend or someone from your school/college/work who realy shy even to talk to you when meet with you If you say he was can find a way to always contact you event if you blocked him and change your email address than it maybe he already send to you keylogger software or spyware, look like he was know you ip address so he can track of your history. I also have a stalker about 4-5 year ago from the net into real life , she was realy bothering me, she call me a day around 20 to 30 time everyday. she also know my email adress and my messenger id, when i asked her where did she know my email and messenger id, she hacked my internet line cause i have static ip address, after i move to another city and change my email and cellphone she not bothering me again. if you have a static ip adresst from your isp, try to contact them and change the ip or intalled a firewall software
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• Canada
5 May 07
yes in one of his messages he did say oh so this is your IP address and this is the company that you are using... I didn't know what he meant and didn't think that it was anything to be afriad of. Is this something I should be concerned about?
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@Thoroughrob (11742)
• United States
7 May 07
No, I have never had that happen. That is very scary. I would contact the police and ask them what you should do. They should be able to give you some idea.
@emeraldisle (13138)
• United States
5 May 07
I've had stalkers on both. Luckily they weren't that adept and I was able to stop them easily enough. Nothing like your situation. Here is what I'd suggest since you already changed things and he's continued to hound you. Contact that police. They should be able to find him and stop him. If for some reason they won't then contact your Internet Service Provider and see what they recommend. They should know who you should report it to and be able to help in tracing him.
@AnnaB87 (761)
• United States
4 May 07
He may be someone who knows you in real life and be pretending to be someone online. I think you should notify the police and see what they say, and contact the FBI if the police won't do anything, Make sure you have documented that you have a stalker so that if he ever shows up they know where to start looking for someone. Also don't open anything from him or from anyone you do not know. HTHS
@kgwat70 (13387)
• United States
5 May 07
I agree that you should let the police know about this person who is stalking you as they can have this person investigated at least. They may not be able to arrest him right away as they would probably have to catch him in the act but at least they could send out a private investigator. You definitely should not keep this quiet. Documenting everything he says and does is very important like the member stated so that you have something to give to the police. Take every precaution available.
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• Canada
4 May 07
Is there any law about this if it is online? He hasn't bothered me in real life so I don't know if it would be something I could go to the police with....
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• Finland
4 May 07
Is there any viruses or any other suspious programs running on your computer? I just thought that it would be easiest way to find you again and again. I have thought that peoples should do antistalker pages. People are usually lazy and if they find something on their own, they think that information is true. Example I have homepage where I tell about myself. Homepage is quite easy to find, but it still takes some time. So I am quite sure that if anyone visit that site, he/she would think that everything is true on that site and it is not there just because of him/her. I like a little about one girl and I think she like me. So I designed my site knowing that if she like me she would visit my site. There was lot of mostly good information from me, not any lies, but information which is true and information which you just can't say to someone who you don't know so well. It would be stupid if you just say Hi and then tell half of your life, but reading it from net is different story. I log my sites visitors and I am quite sure that girl visited it and I am also quite sure that she would like me now. Well my situation has changed from that time and I am going out with another girl, luckily I am not so shy anymore. Well I asked first girl to go out with me couple of times, but my timing was bad. Point of this story was that I kind of had stalker, but with my antistalkersite everything went right. It is different for boys anyway. I think that boys can't even have real stalker. In your case you want something different. You just want that stalker leaves you alone. Maybe you could make website where you tell how handsome and nice your boyfriend is or you tell about bad habits you have. You don't need to have them, but if stalker reads something that makes he thing you are not for him, because you have something not nice, he might leave you alone and stalk someone else. If you make antistalkersite remember that there must be something true about yourself and mostly remember that your friends can find your site too!
• Canada
4 May 07
I appreciate the ideas and thought but I am an honest person and could never lie even to get a stalker to leave me alone. I would be too worried that someone important to me would find this site and believe the things I had put up there for the stalker. As for the viruses on my computer I know taht I have some. I keep cleaning it out and even going so far as to format it almost monthly but things just keep happeneing.
@Darkwing (21583)
5 May 07
I agree with Punky here. Dishonesty only gets you into more problems and besides, you were doing your tracking to check whether you had attracted a girl. That's a different thing altogether... you WANTED her to stalk you. I don't think any sort of "game" with sites will get rid of somebody who is besotted. Punky needs to take more positive, effective steps. You still don't know to this day whether the girl visited you anyway. Brightest Blessings.
@glamgrl (384)
• Ireland
9 May 07
my god punky(hi!)i am sorry for your trouble as we would say here feckin'b*st*rd to do that to you sorry no advice here i dont know anything about same just a note to offer some support
@misstree (241)
• United States
4 May 07
I had a stalker when I was around 16/17. It was the neighbor. My bedroom faced my back yard, and there was a house to my right. Well, I never knew this guy was looking into my bedroom with binoculars until one night me and my friend went over there to join a party. I happened to notice the binoculars near their back door that faced the back of my house. I looked at him, and he said to me, "All I can see is your Ozzy poster." I nearly freaked. I didn't do anything about it. I told my parents, but they didn't do anything either. So I just kept my shades, and curtains closed all the time pretty much after that. To this day, I am paraniod. I should have called the cops. But back then, I didn't think it was enough to get them involved. I mean, what would they have done really? I think it would of just aggrivated the guy more to keep doing it. Greets!