Hello all,
I hope you are all staying safe in these Covid times. Apologies if this is in the wrong section but my first time posting on Mumsnet so not sure if I’m doing it right!
I can’t believe I’m posting about something as petty as social media but I’ve never been through this before so I was just looking for other people’s views etc.
So recently on Instagram I have been receiving these strange messages. They call me names and then tell me to stop having an affair with ‘their friends husband’ (I’m most definitely not I’m happily married) and these messages vary from just saying that to ‘if you don’t stop we will tell your boss’ now. At this point I hadn’t responded because I assumed it was mistaken identity so I said I didn’t know what they were on about and would happily give my bosses email because obviously I’ve done nothing wrong. At which point they blocked me. I thought it was odd but tried to forget about it, I got a couple of DM requests a few days later but when I went to look at them they had disappeared so I’m assuming I had been blocked. I blocked that account and tried to forget about it.
About a week or so later a new account pops up saying the same thing, nasty names and that I’m having some sort of an affair and again before I can say anything back, they block me. All in all about 4 accounts have been made.
I went on google to look up what this could be and apparently (and please correct me if I’m wrong) things more or less fall into three categories
Trolling
Cyber-Bullying
Online Harassment.
I looked at each of these things and apart from them call me names and saying I’m going to tell your boss, there are no threats and there is nothing violent. I don’t think it warrants going to the police and also all the accounts are fake wife zero followers/following. The only other thing I read was malicious communications but is that the same as what I’ve received?
Also really sorry for the formatting of this message, done on phone!
Interested in hearing your views!
P