This is really going to freak everyone out! I have not one, but multiple stalkers… And I am not just talking “cyber” I mean show up at my door and build a shrine kind of stalker(s). I am not sure exactly how many there are, but I do know that one-by-one they are being tracked down and will be met with a restraining order and anything else I can do to prevent this from continuing for another year.

**UPDATE:  As of today 01/27/2010 T-Mobile and SPRINT have agreed to go back into their systems to track the individual(s) who had been calling with “Number Restricted” and “Blocked Number” to my mobile number over the last year in order to comply with a Court Order.  The information will be released and I will publish the identity of the individual(s) as the information is made available.  Thanks to all for your support and understanding in the matter and a big “Thank you” to both mobile carrier companies for pursuing this matter and assisting in the end of my torment for the last year.

It all started about a year ago, in December of 2008 to be precise. It began with anonymous flowers sent to my home on my Birthday. Around the same time I started getting strange calls from restricted numbers and lots and lots of calls from a “fax” number. I am so naive sometimes, I didn’t realize that some cell phones can make fax calls. I also started getting these “spoofed” calls – where on my caller id someone’s number I know shows up but it’s not that person actually calling me… or… I would get connected to another call and hear the phone ringing on the other end and someone picks up whom I did not call.

Anyway, the calls were intermittent over the last year, but when they would come in there would be tens of them, one after the other… and this drives me nuts, I am already a bit paranoid about telemarketers and scams that use cell phones and VoIP to terrorize and steal from people at random.

Anyway, the year goes by and I find out that there are 3+ possible suspects some of who are not total strangers:

A. Is a girl I have not seen in 12 years who had the delusion we were in a relationship of some kind in a past life – oh, boy!! – and
B. The other possible stalker turned out to be some psycho girl who thought she was in a relationship with my boy friend at the time, just a crazy girl who eventually called me but was totally delusional and made up a whole bunch of crazy stories that were totally ridiculous and unsubstantiated, that was scary !

Yes, I know!  I am the quintessential freak magnet

C. Third suspect, another dangerously delusional creature who also was operating with a lose screw.

D. Someone I went to high school with who I had recently run into at a mutual friend’s house who I always thought was kind of a freak.

Anyhow, lots of suspects… that is not the key point to my story, the key is that I was going crazy getting all these calls to my cell phone and according to T-Mobile (and then SPRINT), none of these calls could be traced because they either had their phones set to “blocked” (please don’t have your phone set to blocked, it is so annoying!), or they were using *67 and/or some VoIP dialer that couldn’t be traced “that easily”. You really have to become a detective to hunt down various methods for snaring these stalkers and scammers.

I also got strange text messages and a lot of people calling from the wrong number who were speaking in foreign languages.

However, the lines were crossed when my mother’s home phone started getting random calls from private, restricted and blocked numbers BUT this phone that belongs to my mother is actually a land line which offers the option of dialing *57 after a call from a restricted number is received – this will trace the call and can actually be prosecuted as a Federal Crime.

I have several calls that I was able to trace from this landline and that, along with a restraining order, will get me my stalker(s)!

Now, here is something that will freak you all out even more! One of these stalkers actually showed up at my house and built me a little shrine, so here today for your viewing pleasure is a “shrine” of flowers and wax that totally freaked me out!!

Today I got another call from a private number on my home phone line and I am relieved to say it was the last call received and therefor, after dialing *57  was successfully traced. *sigh*

And along with all the woes in Haiti someone(s) out there has nothing better to do then slam my phone and torture me for no good reason.   On a bright note, they all will be stopped… on a somber note… It is so random and bizarre and scary that there are people out there who will go to such lengths to torment people.  It’s very O.C.D. and there are a lot of people out there who need some therapy and possibly an intervention!!

Share your thoughts and experiences with cyber stalking and more!  I am very interested to hear from anyone who was able to find an APP that could “un-Block” a restricted number!!

***UPDATE:  PLEASE EXCUSE MY COMMENTS BELOW, OBVIOUSLY I RECEIVED SOME UNSAVORY FEEDBACK WHICH I FELT WAS NOT APPROPRIATE TO “APPROVE” YET HAD TO RESPOND TO REGARDLESS OF THE DESPICABLE NATURE OF THE COMMENTS MADE **