sintralgasub
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Joined: 8/24/2006 Status: offline
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LA - unfortunately, there are abusers out there. Several years ago, I was part of a small chat room, went there for months, and became friendly with many of the regulars. We became aware of a man who had become very abusive toward any female who was initially kind enough to respond with a hello when he first pm'd them. He created so many screen names, it became difficult to identify him, but we all learned his methods, and his manner of speaking and were quickly able to weed him out and identify the new screen name to the others. He did tend to use the same phrases, twists on names, etc. His profiles ranged from one end of the spectrum to the other. I was lucky, he only tried to access my computer files about 5 times. (Yahoo messenger notified me that he was attempting to access my files - click ok to allow...) He would lock up my messenger by sending so many pm's - you could never close them out, and when you logged back in they were there. There would be numerous requests to add him as a friend under so many different names. It caused me many anxious moments. He knew who we were, we couldn't keep up with who he was. We would be on invisible, but when you would deny one of his requests so you could move onto something else, he knew you were online and it was all he needed to start his abuse. The unlucky one was a young college aged lady who happened to use her screen name for vanilla and kink activities. She also happened to cam for him, and happened to show her face. He followed her into a vanilla family oriented room, and located her father - and showed him the stills he took of the cam session. You can imagine the fall out. It took several tech savvy men who tracked him down by IP addresses and such, found out he was a college student in North Carolina, long story short, they got his parents involved, his internet provider involved and threatened legal action. The tormnet stopped. Yes, most things are not serious and can be laughed off, but I know from this experience that scary things can happen. I know I have learned which things to be on the alert for and I feel perfectly competent to roam around in chat rooms or on message boards. I would not hesitate to ask my Dom to intervene should I feel like I got caught in another situation as mentioned above. sgs
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