Email stalker

Have any of you ever had one? How do you get rid of them?

Most of the times I just ignore the messages, but there is always one that get's to me just a little bit.

Do you think having an email stalker means it's possible that someone IS out there, lurking in the shadows?

/sigh

For a few months it goes quiet, then I will get an email nearly every day. This has been going on for close to 4 years now. Since my "Merry Christmas" message last year they are nearly daily again.

Any advice is greatly welcomed.

Get a new email addy.

Posted by Queenofthepheasantfairies
Have any of you ever had one? How do you get rid of them?

Most of the times I just ignore the messages, but there is always one that get's to me just a little bit.

Do you think having an email stalker means it's possible that someone IS out there, lurking in the shadows?

/sigh

For a few months it goes quiet, then I will get an email nearly every day. This has been going on for close to 4 years now. Since my "Merry Christmas" message last year they are nearly daily again.

Any advice is greatly welcomed.

not sure - if you can't block somehow then ? ... do you think it might be a co-worker or what do you think ? file a police report ?

At first I thought it could be someone i know. But I'm not sure. I normally as I say just ignore them. But there are a couple that do get under my skin a little. They always sexual but today it read " you make me so.... God damn angry"

Sigh. I'll block it if I can and if that fails will have to get a whole new address

Thank you

Posted by Dreamyboy
Blocking is pointless, it has your email so contacting you via email will always be easy unless you yourself make a new one. If you keep your current, you can expect it to email you through a brand new email, only to be back to square one before you blocked said person. Also, you can do a bunch of Internet surveys and sweepstakes with that person's email so it could get flooded with spam lol. I suggest if you do make a new email address, slowly reintroduce that email to your friends two or three weeks apart. It might help you catch the culprit. Lastly, if you delete your troubled email address, transfer all important data i.e. billing logins, personal account data, and social media accounts that have that email registered to your new email. Reason because if you were to log in your Facebook, etc, but forgot your password, it will use your registered email to recover your account, but if the registered email is the deleted one, well goodluck!

Yeah this is the shenanigans I was trying to avoid deleting my current one. Thank you for your advice

That is strange...and you have no idea who could it be?

When I was in my early twenties (before the email era, hehe) I had a telephone stalker for about 4 years! He would call, ask for my name and then proceed to tell me (or whoever was on the phone) that I was a slag!

I never found out who he was! I firstly suspected a guy I had a holiday fling with and cut contact afterwards...but why would he do such a thing, for a period 20x longer than our RL encounter? I did report him, but nothing came out of it!

I was also dating another guy on and off and knew that he had another woman who was keen to marry him! I suspected that she had a brother and asked him to phone me. Consistent with this idea, phone stalking stopped after she got married...to someone else, lol. But why would a brother do something like that, to a stranger he didn't know?

It's not clear what he was trying to achieve. After the initial shock period, I found his persistency quite amusing and mischief or ego stimulating and sometimes I took the piss out of him, like that time when I got a metal thing that made loud, shotgun noises into the phone speaker...😈