I have a stalker

Hello TheseOceanSkys;

So you have a stalker, but you have never met him? Could it be that it is just one of your friends? AOL support for AIM is pretty bad, I doubt they would do anything, and even if they did, it’d just be a screen name suspension (In that case the ‘stalker’ would simply make a new screen name).

I’d suggest that you select ‘Allow only people on my list to contact me’ in your AIM Preferences.

If it gets any worse, you would want to contact the local authorities.

Good luck. =)

Have you given out any personal information? If so, that might be a problem. But if you haven’t and he (the stalker) knows you, then you probably don’t have much to worry about. I would also think about reporting him though

AIM is a free service and they probably make little profit off of it. It’s more of a promotional tool for AOL, so they really don’t give a damn. :-/

…Then tell him to do as you have done?

Here is something I did to catch someone in my college that was harassing my friend. I tracked him down the the dorm and room actually and he nearly crapped his pants when my friend was banging on his door. He wants pics, well tell him you agree and will send some. Open up a com’and prompt, ex start/run/cmd or command in 98/me. In the command prompt type ‘netstat -n’ that will show all your active network connections. Connect to send picture and type that again, but there will be one more connection listed. It should be under port 4443 if I remember. Now take that IP. Hopefully he has a static ip, which with broadband popular, he probally does. Now type ‘nslookup’ followed by a space and the ip. You will get the dns info on his ip and most likely his isp. Now you can call his isp, tell them about the abuse, and call your local police with printouts of all your logs. Dont be afraid not to, YOU can get his isp to terminate his service in threat of a lawsuit.

or he’ll call your bluff… in which case you might make it worse

No this actually makes sense! Copy and print out the logs of him stalking then unplug the modem so that he really cannot do anything to her computer. If this is all a hoax then so be it… the information was useless and she is getting a good laugh. If this is for real then then there is a good chance this stalker is doing it to other people and it definently needs to stop. I did what I did because it was the right thing to do. She can reply to it when the police/FBI have taken care of it and its over with. So what!

shifter
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I stronly disagree with you here shifter… Give the girl some breathing room for today – If this were all true and she does really have a stalker who is threatening her then retaining to the same post is the last thing on her mind. In fact it was nessecary to create a NEW posting so that she could get immidiate help for when she posted it was 11 PM and the time of the threat to take place was 3 PM. Some females in that position would truely panic and I took that into consideration. This is the very thing we as netizens might be called upon to do again someday so please be aware of it. It won’t be the last time some a$$ threatens a young lady online with this form of mental abuse.