Xavier’s Nest

One of my friends on MySpace, just had a scary thing happen to him. I second his warning: BEWARE OF PEOPLE YOU MEET ONLINE, not everyone is a nice person.

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From: Rick R. Reed
Date: Nov 25, 2007 10:34 PM

Check out my new blog posting to read about a pretty scary experience I had this weekend because of a MySpace “friend.” You really do have to know better…and an author who writes a book about internet predator really should be more careful who he lets into his “space.” A true story.

OMG! what a creepy person! This hasn’t happened to me on MySpace, but it did happen to me on eBay. I used to take on eBay forums a lot, than a flamer started harassing a lot of folks. Sending really freaky messages to about 20 or so folks (I was one of them). At first they were just lame one sentance smart mouthing things, I didn’t respond to him, and figured if I ignored him, he’d go away, but after about a week, he took the messages off the public forum and onto the private email… that’s when things got really scary. The emails went on for page after page, 2,000 or more words per email, and they said stuff like “I have pictures of your family” and “I know where you live” and “I’m going to show up at your front door when you least expect it”. I reported him to eBay, as did the other folks he threatened. eBay banned him and we thought that was the end of it.

Than a few months later he was back on eBay forums, and sending the messages and emails once again.eBay banned him again, and this time banned his ISP. That’s when eBay announced that they did a check and found out that this guy was useing 7 differant computers to send these messages from. They banned all 7 ISP addresses.

But that was not the end. This guy made one last realy freaky attack, that shock us rught to the bone. His next move was to hack into our eBay accounts, and than set out to bidding bids of $5,000 -$7,000 or more for all sort of weird items. I found out about this when PayPal contacted me and told me that an ISP adress from Nigeria, Africa had tried to withdraw funds from my bank account via PayPal, to pay for more than 20 eBay auctions for items variying in price from $2,000 - $7,000 each!!!! OMG! eBay launched an investigation and it was determined that this was once again, the same guy that had been harassing us before and they found him living in Californian.

Why did he do all this? I have no idea. As far as any of us victims, or eBay, or PayPal could determin, he had just picked our eBay usernames at random. None of us had ever talked to the guy prior to this event and none of us knew who he was or why he had set his attack on us.

Sionce that happened, I now cruise the internet allways looking over my shoulder.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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