If you feel fear any time you receive unwanted or unexpected contact, in any form, this is a sign that something is not normal.
Typical Stalking Behaviour includes:
- refusing to leave you alone after you repeatedly request they do so
- making continuous unwanted phone calls from withheld numbers
- sending constant unwanted texts, letters or e-mails, and the stalker re-creating email addresses to by-pass blocking
- constantly following or spying on an individual using the internet and/or in person
- asking questions about you from acquaintances that do not know you are being stalked, including taxi drivers, shop keepers, colleagues, locals in the community
- showing up at your places of work, without invitation or legitimate reason
- making many “drive-bys” or walking past your house when it is out of the way
- waiting for you in places they expect you to socialise in, or drive/walk past, including shops if they know your routine
- leaving you unwanted items, cards, presents, or flowers
- intimidates and follows friends, and family, including children
- defames or spreads rumours about your character, through social media, or gossip
- creates fictitious characters to cyber stalk or appear as a potential work client, or social media friend
- sends malicious emails/letters to anyone who will listen including employers
- is likely to have a previous criminal history and/or registered within the mental health system
- may have a drug or alcohol addiction
- can threaten suicide to manipulate a meeting
- can go as far as revenge porn using indecent images and / or photo-shop image
- is still talking about an ex lover or person more than a year following their split, or rift, in an unhealthy manner, being malicious and making it into something other than a broken relationship
- is making false, vexatious allegations to third parties, and can include the police, social services, or other agencies to cause further distress and deflect from their behaviour being exposed.