Identity thieft online. Are you a victim? Are you at risk? Do you just need to know the basics of online identity thieft so that you can avoid it and prevent it? Then you've come to the right site! This happened to me as early as a month ago, when a reader of one of the stalkers/identity thieves' readers emailed me and came clean who was to blame, that they had claimed, and so fourth. What these people did, and the detail and huge ammounts of time and effort that they made, was amazing. They imitated people whom I know in real life, and made online journals, usually linking back to my journal, and then emailed me, or chatted with me on Aol Instant Messenger. With the info that I told these people, they eventually managed to steal my identity online, and with that, they have impersonated me to people who really know me, such as my uncle, who believed that he was really talking to me online, when in fact, he was talking to one of the guilty parties.
Who were these people? Why did they target me? And better yet.... How did I find out? I'll start from the beginning. I stood up for a woman who was flammed on another woman's site. The one that I defended was the one who asked me to mind my own business. I quickly found out that she was both people on the two separate sites. When I told her off because of this, she soon hacked my internet account, and found all the places that I went online, as well as my AOL password, and harassed people on my buddylist. She found my weblog through my internet travels, and read through the entries there. Suddenly, free Blog*Spot sites popped up in the names of my family members, friends, and loved ones. All of them linked back to me, saying what a great friend and girl I was. Then emails came from these people. There were major holes in serveral of them. For example, I mentioned Adam Conover in my journal, without linking to his domain, and wondered if he was the older brother of "Andie" Conover. In the freeserver journal of "Andie" Conover, Andie was a boy. In real life, "Andi" is a girl. Her name is Andrea. Also, why would Adam need a Blog*Spot account when he had a domain that Blogger seemed to be working perfectly on? It made no sense. I truly believed these were the real people that I knew in real life. And why wouldn't they be? I'd heard Cedric talk about having an online journal, and Dave having an online journal. The only thing was, I didn't know they were that brash. Looking back through the bogus entries, I see now how there's no way those entries could have been written by the people they claimed to be written by.
What has this done to me? Well, there are people online whom I trust, and I know what to tell these people. I never used my real name online, yet these people figured it out. Though they were kind of suspicious anyway, they called me by my online pen name, Kathy, I never really let it bother me. But they found out, eventually through multiple hacks on my computer account, and such. They needed that info to make their final showdown: A weblog written on diaryland, confessing to writing the weblogs. However, they wrote the journal in my real name, and it's a total fraud. I am currently pressing charges on the ring leaders of this charade. What they did was illegal, whether they want to admit it or not.
So, what do I recommend doing about avoiding these things? Well, there's absolutely no way that I can tell you of any sure-fire way of not getting emails, IMs or other online claims that "JoeJack" is really your uncle Jack from Europe or anything. This is the internet. People will try and dupe you on here, especially if you have a popular website as I do. If you want to communicated with relatives online, have them write or give you thier email address face-to-face. Chances are, they aren't out to steal your identity, and you'll always know who is who online. First things first: Do you own a domain? If you do, to avoid people looking you up through a WhoIs system, I recommend having everything transferred to GoDaddy or registering your domain there to begin with. This way, you can be anonymous to the causual freak and pervert online. The police and FBI will still be able to find out who you are, but unless if you're writing a bomb-making or terrorist site online, you don't have anything to worry about. If you're using a free server, don't worry, this doesn't apply to you.
Now that you've registered your domain with godaddy.com, you need to have at least $80 (US dollars) on you, and check your domain name availablity. For example, if you register the domain, www.justjessica.com, you need to check the other versions of that domain and register them too. Usually: .net, .org, .ws, .us, .info, and .biz. This will cost nearly $80, or a little more, but for your identity online, isn't it worth it? If you don't do this, you risk someone purchasing one of those subnames and setting up a site pretending to be you. Also, register your name .com too. For example, if your full name is Jessica Sanches, you need to register www.jessicasanches.com too. Just to discourage people from stealing your identity. You don't have to host all of these sites. Godaddy.com offers free parking until you're ready to put in a host.
Okay, now that we've gotten the expensive stuff out of the way, you need to set up freeserver accounts until things blow over (and believe me, eventually, they will blow over). Start going to the following sites and register your online identity and name (just like with the domain). All it will cost you is your time:
Yahoo!/GeoCities
Excite
Hotmail
New York.com
Canada.com
CollegeClub
HighSchoolClub
Pitas
Diaryland
SignMyGuestBook
LiveJournal*
DeadJournal
Diary X
AIM
Blogger/Blog*Spot
FreeOpenDiary
With the free-server email accounts, you'll have to log into them at least once per month, but it's worth it not to let these people steal who you are.
Last, you'll need to know who's who. Whether you suspect you're being stalked online, or just suspicious of someone who you think's been doing searches on you or has hacked your computer account. First get a free tracker from ExtremeTracking, and look at your stats often. Then set some sort of an off site boobie trap. For example, if you have a spare LiveJournal code, make a new non-friends LiveJournal, and allow comments, as long as IPs are recorded. Then, sit back and wait for the people to go there. When they start posting threats, check the IPs, and report them to their ISPs, with links to the comments. Chances are, you'll be surprised how dumb stalkers and online thieves are. They just *can't* help themselves when it comes to attempting to run someone offline.
There you have it. These steps have worked for me. If you wish, you may email me with suggestions, comments, or ask for help. I promise to try and help people who are afraid of what happened to me happening to them.
*Sorry. No more LiveJournal codes are currently being distributed.
The Characters:
NOTE:I will remove this site when all the sites made in MY NAME by these MPD people are taken down. Thank you.
Ever wonder what the web would be like if and when children with Multiple Personality Disorders grew up and were able to have a hay-day with their disorders? What if they never got help at all? Well, that's what's happened on the web, and I'm here to expose those people.
Katy McGreevey (Katy Action) The main "body" that hosts all the other people. She has many, many domains that she has allowed her personalities to register. They all use the same server (CyberPixles) and they use the same type of journaling software, MovableType, which states in it's own features page that "Support for multiple weblogs/journals -- one Movable Type installation can support as many blogs as you wish." Movable Type seems to be supporting the MPD wave. Sad. This woman claims to be 30, yet she has a Harry Potter-oriented site (for her main personality). Yes, women can be pedophiles too (I have nothing against Peds, just people who think it's OK to steal other's personalities online). Admitted domains run by Katy: six. IP: nr13-66-161-191-167.fuse.net; 66.161.191.167
Chen Ya-Wen (Yaya) A "timid" asian girl around 16. However, when ever Katy McGreevey gets mad at someone, and wants them dead, Chen here wants them dead too. The only slight difference in Chen is she uses Blogger to publish her site. Admitted domains run by Chen: two. IP: 64.170.116.32
Tawnya Mendonsa (Tawnya) This has to be the stupidest of the personalities. She'll post a threat on your comments/guest book (usually mirroring Katy's current mood) and then post her real name, and domain. Very, very stupid. Admitted domains run by Tawnya: two. IP: 131.191.40.49
Kristy Hendrickson(eris) The Texan. Ever watch King of the Hill? That show constantly makes fun of Texans. I never believed it until this persona popped up. Is there such a thing as a person who has MPD with a personality that also has MPD?????? I think so. Let's see, according to my history with this persona, she has been Kristy, Eris, Tracy Graham, and the President/CEO of Successful Hosting.com, and LogJamming.com. And that's just with me! There's no telling who else she has pretended to be online! Just because she is a nobody (like most Texans), doesn't mean that she has to steal the identites of people online. Speaking of stealing, she admits, in her own words, that she's stolen pictures and graphics that belonged to other people for her fraud of a site. Admitted domains run by Kristy: Two. IP: 12.237.199.211 and 65.161.113.5
There are many, many, many more characters that live in the mind of Katy McGreevey, but most of them have "died" or I can't remember them, or their go-by names on the web, and believe me, she has over 5,000 email accounts. If you need more information on this person/these characters, click here.
Who were these people? Why did they target me? And better yet.... How did I find out? I'll start from the beginning. I stood up for a woman who was flammed on another woman's site. The one that I defended was the one who asked me to mind my own business. I quickly found out that she was both people on the two separate sites. When I told her off because of this, she soon hacked my internet account, and found all the places that I went online, as well as my AOL password, and harassed people on my buddylist. She found my weblog through my internet travels, and read through the entries there. Suddenly, free Blog*Spot sites popped up in the names of my family members, friends, and loved ones. All of them linked back to me, saying what a great friend and girl I was. Then emails came from these people. There were major holes in serveral of them. For example, I mentioned Adam Conover in my journal, without linking to his domain, and wondered if he was the older brother of "Andie" Conover. In the freeserver journal of "Andie" Conover, Andie was a boy. In real life, "Andi" is a girl. Her name is Andrea. Also, why would Adam need a Blog*Spot account when he had a domain that Blogger seemed to be working perfectly on? It made no sense. I truly believed these were the real people that I knew in real life. And why wouldn't they be? I'd heard Cedric talk about having an online journal, and Dave having an online journal. The only thing was, I didn't know they were that brash. Looking back through the bogus entries, I see now how there's no way those entries could have been written by the people they claimed to be written by.
What has this done to me? Well, there are people online whom I trust, and I know what to tell these people. I never used my real name online, yet these people figured it out. Though they were kind of suspicious anyway, they called me by my online pen name, Kathy, I never really let it bother me. But they found out, eventually through multiple hacks on my computer account, and such. They needed that info to make their final showdown: A weblog written on diaryland, confessing to writing the weblogs. However, they wrote the journal in my real name, and it's a total fraud. I am currently pressing charges on the ring leaders of this charade. What they did was illegal, whether they want to admit it or not.
So, what do I recommend doing about avoiding these things? Well, there's absolutely no way that I can tell you of any sure-fire way of not getting emails, IMs or other online claims that "JoeJack" is really your uncle Jack from Europe or anything. This is the internet. People will try and dupe you on here, especially if you have a popular website as I do. If you want to communicated with relatives online, have them write or give you thier email address face-to-face. Chances are, they aren't out to steal your identity, and you'll always know who is who online. First things first: Do you own a domain? If you do, to avoid people looking you up through a WhoIs system, I recommend having everything transferred to GoDaddy or registering your domain there to begin with. This way, you can be anonymous to the causual freak and pervert online. The police and FBI will still be able to find out who you are, but unless if you're writing a bomb-making or terrorist site online, you don't have anything to worry about. If you're using a free server, don't worry, this doesn't apply to you.
Now that you've registered your domain with godaddy.com, you need to have at least $80 (US dollars) on you, and check your domain name availablity. For example, if you register the domain, www.justjessica.com, you need to check the other versions of that domain and register them too. Usually: .net, .org, .ws, .us, .info, and .biz. This will cost nearly $80, or a little more, but for your identity online, isn't it worth it? If you don't do this, you risk someone purchasing one of those subnames and setting up a site pretending to be you. Also, register your name .com too. For example, if your full name is Jessica Sanches, you need to register www.jessicasanches.com too. Just to discourage people from stealing your identity. You don't have to host all of these sites. Godaddy.com offers free parking until you're ready to put in a host.
Okay, now that we've gotten the expensive stuff out of the way, you need to set up freeserver accounts until things blow over (and believe me, eventually, they will blow over). Start going to the following sites and register your online identity and name (just like with the domain). All it will cost you is your time:
Yahoo!/GeoCities
Excite
Hotmail
New York.com
Canada.com
CollegeClub
HighSchoolClub
Pitas
Diaryland
SignMyGuestBook
LiveJournal*
DeadJournal
Diary X
AIM
Blogger/Blog*Spot
FreeOpenDiary
With the free-server email accounts, you'll have to log into them at least once per month, but it's worth it not to let these people steal who you are.
Last, you'll need to know who's who. Whether you suspect you're being stalked online, or just suspicious of someone who you think's been doing searches on you or has hacked your computer account. First get a free tracker from ExtremeTracking, and look at your stats often. Then set some sort of an off site boobie trap. For example, if you have a spare LiveJournal code, make a new non-friends LiveJournal, and allow comments, as long as IPs are recorded. Then, sit back and wait for the people to go there. When they start posting threats, check the IPs, and report them to their ISPs, with links to the comments. Chances are, you'll be surprised how dumb stalkers and online thieves are. They just *can't* help themselves when it comes to attempting to run someone offline.
There you have it. These steps have worked for me. If you wish, you may email me with suggestions, comments, or ask for help. I promise to try and help people who are afraid of what happened to me happening to them.
*Sorry. No more LiveJournal codes are currently being distributed.
The Characters:
NOTE:I will remove this site when all the sites made in MY NAME by these MPD people are taken down. Thank you.
Ever wonder what the web would be like if and when children with Multiple Personality Disorders grew up and were able to have a hay-day with their disorders? What if they never got help at all? Well, that's what's happened on the web, and I'm here to expose those people.
Katy McGreevey (Katy Action) The main "body" that hosts all the other people. She has many, many domains that she has allowed her personalities to register. They all use the same server (CyberPixles) and they use the same type of journaling software, MovableType, which states in it's own features page that "Support for multiple weblogs/journals -- one Movable Type installation can support as many blogs as you wish." Movable Type seems to be supporting the MPD wave. Sad. This woman claims to be 30, yet she has a Harry Potter-oriented site (for her main personality). Yes, women can be pedophiles too (I have nothing against Peds, just people who think it's OK to steal other's personalities online). Admitted domains run by Katy: six. IP: nr13-66-161-191-167.fuse.net; 66.161.191.167
Chen Ya-Wen (Yaya) A "timid" asian girl around 16. However, when ever Katy McGreevey gets mad at someone, and wants them dead, Chen here wants them dead too. The only slight difference in Chen is she uses Blogger to publish her site. Admitted domains run by Chen: two. IP: 64.170.116.32
Tawnya Mendonsa (Tawnya) This has to be the stupidest of the personalities. She'll post a threat on your comments/guest book (usually mirroring Katy's current mood) and then post her real name, and domain. Very, very stupid. Admitted domains run by Tawnya: two. IP: 131.191.40.49
Kristy Hendrickson(eris) The Texan. Ever watch King of the Hill? That show constantly makes fun of Texans. I never believed it until this persona popped up. Is there such a thing as a person who has MPD with a personality that also has MPD?????? I think so. Let's see, according to my history with this persona, she has been Kristy, Eris, Tracy Graham, and the President/CEO of Successful Hosting.com, and LogJamming.com. And that's just with me! There's no telling who else she has pretended to be online! Just because she is a nobody (like most Texans), doesn't mean that she has to steal the identites of people online. Speaking of stealing, she admits, in her own words, that she's stolen pictures and graphics that belonged to other people for her fraud of a site. Admitted domains run by Kristy: Two. IP: 12.237.199.211 and 65.161.113.5
There are many, many, many more characters that live in the mind of Katy McGreevey, but most of them have "died" or I can't remember them, or their go-by names on the web, and believe me, she has over 5,000 email accounts. If you need more information on this person/these characters, click here.
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