Wrongfully Accused

Learned something of value just recently.  I remember a friendster bulletin (or was it from my email?) warning us to be careful on what we post in our profiles.  It told us not to post pictures or blogs revealing our whereabouts - work, residences, etc.  There could be people out there who could take advantage of that..blah..blah..blah - i didn’t pay much attention to the details.  What struck me is the message that some sick people could locate us and do harm upon us or the people we love.

Last week I got an invite.  Naturally, I checked out his page –great pictures — the name rang a bell (i thought he could be a high school classmate), and his friends looked decent.  Based on that I clicked ACCEPT.  I never thought that would be something I’d later regret!

As I have been really busy at work - what with the audit season in the works — i haven’t opened my page since then.  When I finally did, I got really excited seeing I have messages awaiting.  Much to my dismay, it was from that friend Michael A. (or Kael D?) accusing me of duping him.  He left rather unfriendly, or to be more accurate, threatening messages!  When I got to the part where he accused me of feeding my kids stolen money(?) I felt my blood rush to my head! I thought, “What is this guy’s deal?!!!”

Eventhough I had no idea what he was talking about - aside from the fact that he gave me a very bad headache with his badly constructed sentences and the grammar scattered all over  (urgh!)– he got to me!  For a moment I thought, could I have sold someone P990i subconsciously?  Was I schizophrenic and could have possibly been carrying a second personality that did all that he accused me of? After gaining 100% certainty that I wasn’t, I felt really enraged.

I know I shouldn’t have, but I sent him a reply.  As he said he wanted to iron out things with me, setting aside my better judgment, I gave him my office number.  Instead, he replied saying that he is coming over to my City!  For the past few days I’ve become paranoid, expecting him to jump me out of nowhere.  I was really rather scared of the prospect that I have dealt with a crazy person who could do me, or my family, or any of my friends serious harm.

My husband downplayed it as a prank.  Well, if it was, I’m not laughing!  I think it sick to randomly pick people on the net and send them messages like that!  He was barking at the wrong tree and caught me at a moment of weakness where I could not let anything pass.

Lesson..never accept invites of friendship from people I don’t know.  Never again!

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