Stalker Craig

By Jameson Farn

Stalker Craig is a true account of a friendship that ended over a disagreement and how the former friend started an online campaign of harassment and death threats over the years.
 

The book narrates the levels taken by the stalker to break the victim down mentally to the point of depression and thoughts of suicide. When the perpetrator isn't getting the results he desires, he eagerly escalates his efforts of hate against you and also those you love.
 

The cyberstalker weaves the most unbelievable stories in an attempt to provoke and damage your life with statements of bizarre sexual acts, financial fraud, a myriad of diseases, and even murder for not only you and those closest to you to read but the general public through his community of fake social media profiles he has constructed.
 

Over time, a toll is taken.

When the threats get to a breaking point, to save oneself, and under the guidance of lawyers and police, a more drastic, strategic step is taken to regain control of his life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jameson Farn
• Release date: Dec 24, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201385620

Jameson Farn

Originally from Canada with a mutual love of France. Jameson has resided for many years in the Cote d’Azur region close to the Principality of Monaco. For over the past decade, Jameson has contributed articles for several European and North American online magazines and is the author of Bathhouse Babylon. Jameson also produces the Gay French Riviera blog, aimed at those in the LGBTQ community who live in or are seeking to travel to this beautiful part of France. Jameson also owns a luxury real estate and rental agency catering to France and the global market. Any media inquiries for this book should be directed to: [e-mail]

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Chapter 1

Imagine waking up every day, getting ready to go about your life, and part of your morning routine is to see how you are being harassed and threatened by someone online. This person also happens to be a former longtime friend who has since taken it upon himself to continually cyberstalk you for the past number of years.

You detest that this is part of your day and are even sad that you have to search for whatever hateful comments or posts have been produced about you or those closest to you if it hasn’t already been sent your way to make sure you see it. You do these daily checks simply to try and protect yourself from whatever he might have underway next and warn others close to you he has or might also be going after, while many times wondering - will this ever end?

Unfortunately, you become used to checking for any online activity and reading the worst made-up stories about yourself from someone you haven’t seen for almost a decade who is trying to get into your mind and heart. The cyberstalker frequently states his intention is to break you down or that he is checking in to see if you are still alive because if you are dead, then maybe he will finally stop while morbidly feeling like he has won some sort of prize.

Depending on what has been posted can determine how you feel the rest of your day. Besides your morning search routine, you have to continue to search online at other random times of the day and night. And even more so when you have been notified by a friend, family member, business partner, or even a stranger concerned for your well-being.

Your time and energy are spent taking screenshots, saving, and filing it all. Depending on how bad the posts are you might have to update the police and lawyers with all your accumulated evidence. He might have also pulled other unsuspecting people into his realm, so then you might have to try and explain to others what is going on and warn them for their safety.

He never has just one fake Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram profile going, so you try to get the powers that be to take down the defamatory and harmful content. If you are lucky, the social media platforms do remove the content, but typically they don’t, even if it is your images and information that have been used.

Then the fake profiles have to be mapped out as to where they are coming from and note for how long it has all been up for the world to see. Then depending on the posts and comments, you have to figure out what it can all lead to, as half the time, it can put you or someone close to you in a compromising position.

You are playing a one-sided game you never wanted to be involved with; you feel hurt with every move, and you have to continually build your self-esteem up, to try and stay strong. He will play his game with determination but not always with the smartest of moves; that is when the ball is in your court as his next actions become easily anticipated.

You are familiar with his history of internet attacks and others who know of him. To him, this is just joking around since he has never had to take any of it. Although he knows deep down, it isn’t a joke, and if something sets him off more, he then puts yourself and others in immediate danger.

He has been told many times in the past about his behaviors not only by other former friends, and by various authorities, strangely he states it’s his right to post what he wants, and if he wants to, he can abuse people in any manner he wishes.

You know what he is capable of, as no matter how old he gets, he never grows up. He thinks he is being clever, but his ongoing presence and signature style are always evident that he almost loves the notoriety. When he does get caught out, at first, there are plenty of denials; then, when he thinks the drama has calmed down, he goes even harder with his internal anger, and the threats come rushing in.

Before he started spewing abuse on the internet, you knew he was upset with you for catching him in a blatant public lie, and it was over what could be considered a minor disagreement between friends. You try to talk to him about it, clear the air, he quiets down, you think it’s over, but what you don’t realize is he has now decided to make you his new target.

You move forward and think he has too then he decides to go after you with a vengeance and in a way that is too overwhelming to ignore as he intends to ruin your life to the point of suicide or by letting you know how he plans for you to die.

You continue as best you can to brush it off and look ahead, while some who find out what he is doing, saying he’s just jealous of your ambitions. You know that isn’t it; as his unrelenting intent is far heavier than anything like that, he wants you destroyed.

In the usual conversations with the police and lawyers, as we tried to figure this out. It has even been remarked that possibly he was in love with me. This would make me laugh as I wiped away the tears of hurt and fear as there is no love there. We were just friends, and what happens when people discover who he is, they walk away from him, and it’s what I should have done early on in our friendship too.

His past behaviors indicate he will not only go after you but those he thinks you are associated with; when he runs out of stories of what he thinks he knows about you, he will then build new stories and rumors complete with the fake profile characters that he has developed mainly on Facebook and other platforms to continue his attacks.

No matter how hard you try and how many hours have been spent, 90% of the time, the social media platforms don’t remove the content, so to try and make yourself feel slightly better, you console yourself by saying, at least it’s more evidence available if required for the police and lawyers. And you also have all the demanding text messages and horrid emails sent your way to back everything up.

To protect yourself from the abuse, you search through the regular social media networks you may have been attached to no matter how high you have set the privacy settings removed yourself from, along with random Google searches, etc.

You never wanted to be but have become like a detective, to the extent, the private investigation firm you hired at one point (to help confirm the culprit) was impressed with your methods. All in

the hopes to try and stop this mess with every arrow continuing to point back to the primary source who somehow became known over time as Stalker Craig, referred to within my tight, trusted circle and others you come across, he has continued to go after others online regularly.

The consistent response you get from someone who knows of the stalker situation is, That Craig (if they know him) or Stalker Craig, is he still at it?! What a psycho! Why doesn’t he get a life?! Talk about crazy! Followed by concerned comments, Make sure to tell the police or your lawyers. Can’t they do something?!

Police in not only two major cities in Canada are involved but also in France, where I live, and lawyers are always on the case, and this is just one more step forward to try and get it all to stop.

My mistake has been keeping his harassment a secret, almost in a weird way to protect him since we were at one time good friends, but no more. I initially thought this would all blow over, but this is how he handles life, taking his anger out online; he’ll do his bit and be done. That hasn’t happened though, it’s been years of harassment, and not only towards me but others I love and whoever else he feels might be on my path.

Stalker Craig has done his part in excessively bringing a lot of hurt and pain. By protecting him, thinking there is something not right with him, hoping he gets help, he has been able to continue to hurl attacks at me and others. And no one has exposed him for fear of retaliation. He has gone after me in every way imaginable, my life, those I love, my businesses; what more can he do? So as part of a strategy, without even having to name him entirely, the hope is he will stop his intensely hateful habits towards myself and everyone else he simply doesn’t like. His ego will call him out.

He has often made me feel like I had to go into hiding (and have), especially the first couple of subsequent years, becoming completely private offline and in life. I’ve lost friends by stopping all communication with them out of fear of what he might do to them if he discovers other people I know while whittling down any element of a social life, again out of fear.

More times than I care to count, I have been afraid to share happy times or accomplishments with others, as when Stalker Craig finds out, he twists any goals I’ve met in life and trashes them, trying to break them down.

Sometimes, if I’m lucky, there will be a break from the harassment, it can be a week or a month, and you quietly hope it has ended, even though his marks are still left on every platform imaginable. What happens, though, just when you think the coast is clear, is when he strikes again in several ways and not just a one-time effort, and reams of atrocious content will be published everywhere.

Then the hurt and confusion come back, the depression I may have already been dealing with is fed on any part of it, my confidence level shatters depending on what is the latest to be posted, so then I have to quietly build myself back up, just to even go to a store or walk down the street.

My thinking may become clouded, I don’t know who to trust or reach out to or feel safe, so I think it’s best to just stay isolated at home. Again, missing out on life and perhaps even mad at myself

for it through no fault of my own.

Constant stalking and harassment can happen in any number of ways. Depending on the day, if I get a random message, find another fake profile he’s created, or read a slanderous comment to do with my life, after this length of time, you would think it would just slide off your back, and I can roll my eyes about it all, laugh it off and move on. If I feel particularly good about myself that day, that reaction will happen, so when I come across anything on the internet, I hope to be in that mood and feeling strong.

Through my business, I might receive an unusual email work request from an individual asking for or about something that just doesn’t sound right, leaving me to question