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Unburrowing Myself after being Scared
 

I would like to apologise to Eternal ESports, Elusory and those in my group for the GPDL. I have been away for some time... mainly because I was scared for my safety.

inb4 "well that escalated quickly."



So why exactly was I scared? Keep on reading.

I was on ladder when I came across a brand new account. No levels, default avatar and so on. You get the idea.

This match turned out to be one of my easiest games ever and I roflstomped the guy. After the game I offer to help him to get better at the game with a few pointers. At which point the guy says "#@!$ off nerd. I'm going to dox you!"

I laughed to myself. After all for a start I was on my alternate Zerg account with a common enough generic SC2 name and my 'real name' is listed there as Klaus Bergoshima. A character from the James Bond movie Diamonds are Forever iirc. And more importantly, this account has no links to any outside site. its all within sc2.

So I didn't see any way that this guy could gain any information.

A couple days later I'm back on my account and he pops up a few minutes later with an in game message "I've found some things. Wanna hear?"

I chuckled. What on earth could this guy have dug up?

He then proceeds to give my actual REAL name. The town I was born in and the town I live in.

Which made me manure myself a little bit but then I thought, "It's probably just one of my mates trolling me."

So I start calling up my buddies and they all claim innocence.

Which started the nerves up again. Ok lets be honest here. I was starting to be extremely afraid of my safety.

So what do I do?

This invasion of my RL, the mask stripping of my online persona and the threat of being doxed and having my personal info splashed on some site somewhere scared the manure out of me.

So all that made my mind somehow to come to the conclusion to just cut myself off from StarCraft entirely for a time, hoping that my doxer would lose interest.

A fortnight passes and I go back on StarCraft, my doxer doesn't make an appearance. I was still nervous but I was starting to relax now.

Then that night I get an email from a strange account with "Hi! Michael! It's me from hots!" as the subject line.

Open the email up and inside is just a few words. What were those words? My actual RL address.

So now I am realllllllllly panicking. This guy knows where I live? How did he find it? What's going to happen?

This was a real mindfuck (sorry mods I just dont have better words to describe how I felt at that point). I was losing it.

Once again, with my fingers crossed I called up my mates again "Come on guys. I'm serious. If any of you are doing this you need to tell me now."

Once again they claim innocence.

I was so sure it was one of my friends. But surely they wouldnt lie to me?

So I went to the police. Enough was enough.

About a week later I receive a phone call from a (now former) friend who was in Aus at the time of initial contact with my doxer but flew to UK for a holiday a few days before the email.

THE ASSHOLE ADMITTED EVERYTHING! He told me it was him and that he did everything.

I flew into an absolute rage. It was fortunate I was sitting down at the time. If I was standing I would have thumped the asshole.

This guy fucked with mind, fucked with my life and fucked with what I felt to be one of the most important periods of my SC2 'career'.

Long and short of it is. He is now no longer my friend.

For the sake of the friendship I bore him, I decided not to press any sort of charges.

So again, I'm sorry to everyone I have let down because of this saga. I hope you understand why I've been dark for some time.

Re: Unburrowing Myself after being Scared
 

That was scary but yeah your friend shouldnt played such a prank on you... it was going too far with the email as well etc... Hope you are feeling better now

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That shit is screwed up, I can understand the mental trauma you were going through. Welcome home friend, you were missed

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Take this from the perspective that we're two different people with different friends/values/decisions to make -

If this happened, I would've known instantly that it was a mate of mine. The sense of humor is sick, true, but honestly, this is the sort of shit that builds my friendships. -.-

Don't know if this is normal or anything haha, but without pranks as large as this going on, friendships grow stale.

I'm happy you sorted out who it was, but next time something like this happens, don't ever believe your friends when they claim innocence haha.


Welcome back btw!

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I think Bali was right to be paranoid though. On the side of caution, one need only remember he-who-must-not-be-named and other incidents of hackers etc who are psychos etc. I dont think real friends will prank you and not tell you for such a long time even though Bali had several instances tried to find out who did it etc and everyone around him probably knows that he is really upset. (He did think it might be one of his friends etc for quite a while)

But glad it is all cleared up by now. That's the most important part

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Oh I agree, we prank each other all the time bro. i was fairly certain it was one of them.

but this scenario? even after my second call? it went far too far. I was clearly upset and it took nearly 2 months for this friend to let the steam off?

he didnt just cross the line. he blasted over it at Mach 5.

Thing is I probably would have laughed and said 'well played' if he admitted to it even when I called the 2nd time around.

I am feeling angry at the moment. About 45% of that anger is annoyance at the fact that this saga caused me to miss 2 of the most important events I've ever signed up for in StarCraft. They were really going to help develop me as a player.

I'm back in touch with JaKaTaK and getting things back on the road again.

I was missed? By who? I'm not a big fish in this scene just yet.

-My GF reads over my shoulder as I'm typing this and says, "But you're the Bass Fish! Those things are huge!"-

Shut up Meg.

Yeah my mind was majorly fucked during this nonsense. The remaining 55% of my anger now is being pissed at the fact that all this mental anguish was for nothing...

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I do agree this scenario may have been over the top, if it's just in game then it would've been a good laugh after, but taking to emails is a bit.. far.. emails should be a special place for work information and spam from porn sites your friends have signed you up to

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This is a prank gone really too far. At least he didnt spend even more time drawing it out before confessing to it. He seems like an asshole to do that to you.

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I would have pressed charges, that's an asshole thing to do man.

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Shitty thing to do. Real shitty. Glad to see you back in the community

lol lets not get ahead of ourselves Jessie.

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Now go have sex with his mother and never call her back. It's only fair.

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thats how I ended up with him!

jk ofc :P

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I will get hated for this but you over reacted hard but at least you learned an important lesson - 2 even
First think things through rationally and even then don't over react
Second don't be so naive - having a mate that turns out to be a dick has and will continue to happen to everyone forever unless you chose to have no friends. Nobody is psychic and thus you can't tell what a person is truly like or maybe they were 100% cool but then changed. It happens and be thankful you just got scared a little and didn't find out by having him rape your wife

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Ff someone ever did this to me i would simply trace their IP and go ddos the ******(s) ;D

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the only over-reaction I see is the one where I cut myself off of starcraft entirely. its just that... I cant describe it well. Especially after the 2nd call to my friends I couldn't even bare thinking about StarCraft. I was feeling so very vulnerable. I didn't know who was digging through my details. I chose to believe my friends (after the 2nd time, the 1st time I was still suspicious) that they werent doing it. Which left me with the idea that some random out there was digging thru and finding my own details. That address email was the end of it.

I did think it was one of my buddies to start off with and if he had admitted it then and there I would have laughed, he would have laughed, I would have slapped him on the back, called him a **** and we'd have carried on.

But he strung me along for what 2 months before finally coming clean.

There's a difference between being a dick and just being a mental terrorist.

Annnnd get myself arrested. What good would that do?