Anyone Could Be a Cyber-Stalker
It's disheartening to hear, but a Long Island police officer was recently arrested for cyber-stalking an ex-girlfriend.
In the midst of the crackdown on internet predators, we hear less and less about cyber-stalkers -- and part of it may be that it's hard to define what a cyber-stalker is.
Basically, this is a person who uses the internet to harrass another individual.
In some cases, it can include mass emails, identity theft, or constant threats.
In this case, the offender signed his ex-girlfriend up to a dating site, and then sent strange men to her home. Fortunately, the woman in question figured it out and had her stalker arrested before anything could happen.
Individuals who feel that they are the victims of a cyber-stalker may very well want to purchase internet monitoring software -- it records every chat and email, so when the time comes to arrest your stalker you have concrete proof of their actions.
Awareness Tech's WebWatcher is a perfect example; it's completely invisible as it runs, so the stalker would never know that they were being recorded...
until they got busted, of course.
In the midst of the crackdown on internet predators, we hear less and less about cyber-stalkers -- and part of it may be that it's hard to define what a cyber-stalker is.
Basically, this is a person who uses the internet to harrass another individual.
In some cases, it can include mass emails, identity theft, or constant threats.
In this case, the offender signed his ex-girlfriend up to a dating site, and then sent strange men to her home. Fortunately, the woman in question figured it out and had her stalker arrested before anything could happen.
Individuals who feel that they are the victims of a cyber-stalker may very well want to purchase internet monitoring software -- it records every chat and email, so when the time comes to arrest your stalker you have concrete proof of their actions.
Awareness Tech's WebWatcher is a perfect example; it's completely invisible as it runs, so the stalker would never know that they were being recorded...
until they got busted, of course.
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