While funny, these are exceptionally bad suggestions for dealing with real stalkers.
Stalkers feed off of any interaction with the victim. Negative interaction works to fuel the situation just as much as positive interaction. The only good way of that I know to deal with it is to resort to a third-party authority. It is best if that is the police because then there is an official legal record. Calling domain owners and such may be small steps, but they lack in significant capabilities. -Kevin > -----Original Message----- > From: Haggerty, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 10:49 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Yahoo Groups > > > The other option, besides reporting this person and hoping someone else > takes action, it to engage in some social engineering. The goal > is to make > the victim seem as undesireable as possible. > > 1) Send the stalker a picture of an extremely obese person as if it were > your own. (Go to alt.binaries.pictures on usenet and pick something > horrible.) Express romantic interest in the person and tell him or her you > want to meet at a local lover's spot. The idea is to make the > stalker think > you are radically different from his or her image of you and > hopefully make > him or her go away. > > 2) Claim to belong to a special interest group, something real whacked-out > like 'Americans for Militia Culture' and thank the person for > their interest > in your special club. Send them the dues form and a daily reminder that > their $1200 semi-annual activities and ammo fees are 60 days past due. > Repeatedly threaten to forward the bill to collections if you do > not receive > a money order or cash within the next week. (You should be sure > to write the > dues form in Word and include an official looking logo, don't send some > simple email text or the trick won't work.) After a few days, get someone > else you know to pose as the 'collections officer', someone who is good at > being intimidating and can easily pass themselves off as insanely > overzealous. Act bewildered at their lack of responsiveness, ignore any > pleas the stalker might make about never having joined the > organization, and > keep doing things to build the stalker's anxiety. Refuse to accept any > excuses from the stalker, he or she became a brother for life after taking > the oath. Remind him how dangerous it is to speak with the Feds > and that the > group's activities must be protected at all costs. Threaten 'corrective > action'. Tell the stalker his or her presence is required at the > 'compound'. > > > Done right, this can really mess with people's heads. Consider getting a > P.O. Box for correspondence and include it in all your letters. > Try sending > the stalker paper copies of all correspondence at their home address > (maybe he or she has a wife or family who will want in on the > fun). Finally, > you can always set up an official looking Web site and populate it with > pictures off usenet - model the site to look like that of some other > extremist organization and claim a blood partnership. > > 3) Act as if everything the stalker says is funny. REALLY funny. > Forward it > to everyone you know. Send funny stuff back to the stalker, such as spam, > administrative announcements, ads for the X10 cam, anything no one would > want. Sign up for several high volume mailing lists and forward all mail > from them directly to the stalker. Send the junk in bulk and do not stop. > Have your friends participate by sending the stalker their own > crap as well. > Ask them to comment on the stalker's letters as if they were > hilarious. The > key is to overwhelm them in unflattering chatter to the point where they > have no clue whether or not they are getting through to you based on your > inappropriate responses. > > These techniques should confuse the stalker, if nothing else, and may be > more effective at discouraging their activities than having them > banned from > a service. > > M > > -----Original Message----- > From: Candace Cottrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 10:39 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Yahoo Groups > > > Guys and gals... any of you know how to track these types of things?? > This is a friend of mine who is apprently being harrassed. Thanks y'all > > > > Candace K. Cottrell, Web Developer > The Children's Medical Center > One Children's Plaza > Dayton, OH 45404 > 937-641-4293 > http://www.childrensdayton.org > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
