via Digital Trust
Digital technology makes it easy to stalk and harass victims
Stalkers are obsessive people. They want to know what you are doing, where you going, who you are with, how you feel. Any information or tools they can use against their victims they will use. Digital stalking makes it easy to spy on their victim, get information from friends and family or even put spy software on your computer or mobile.
If you want reduce or stop harassment then you have to stop feeding the obsession. That is why you have to make changes, become more private and be extra careful so your information doesn’t get back to them.
The most common tactics for stalkers :
- Monitoring you and friends – looking at what you post, photos, where you go, who you go with etc.
- Spyware – putting spy software on your phone or computer
- Sending text, messages – sending hurtful or threatening messages to you over and over again
- Account takeovers/hacking – accessing your online accounts
- Denigration – sending, posting, or publishing cruel rumors and untrue statements to damage your reputation
- Distributing photos or videos to embarrass you
- Exclusion – contacting or inviting everyone but you
- Flaming – posting an abusive response so everyone can see it
- Outing – telling people something embarrassing about you
- Threats and Dissemination – they threaten you and then tell everyone
- Confidence tricks – getting you to reveal information about yourself and then using against you
- Impersonation – pretending to be you either online or via email etc.
- Spamming – signing you up for junk email
- Trolling – say something online to get you to provoke you into responding
- Bullying by proxy – getting others to join in