Over the years various individuals have falsely maintained to be related to me.
One of them claims to be a nephew – a son of my sister. And the reason for all this weirdness – he said he wanted to know more about his ‘lost uncle’.
This guy originally made contact with me on 10th February 2007. Over a series of a great many emails he insisted he knew of me, he pestered to know about my private life etcetera. He claimed he worked for a government agency akin to GCHQ or the former Bletchley Park. But why someone working in intelligence feels he should reveal his employer is quite bizarre and I would have thought to be professionally stupid. Anyway, he also told me he was gay which meant absolutely nothing. For a while I played along with his messages. Eventually he started to insist he should meet me face to face (something I would never do of course). In fact these pleadings to meet up started to freak me out to the point I thought the best thing was to pass all this on. In the back of my mind I began to wonder if he actually did the job he claimed then of course he knew where I lived. Perhaps that was part of his trick – to psychologically undermine me – who knows.
In 2007 I wanted to send my father an 80th birthday greeting and present. My parents and I are not close. I needed to check their address information I had was correct. So when I requested an update of my parents address from this ‘nephew’ he suddenly became vague with the facts. It was at this point alarm bells rang. The email exchanges became stranger until I eventually blocked him as best I could.
I began bouncing his email approaches when he wrote “very funny”. On the 19th April 2012 he again added me to his Facebook, started sending ‘Likes’ on my account and tried to add me to Twitter. I have tried to ignore this persistent guy and thankfully he deleted me from his Facebook seven days later after a visit to this page on the 26 Apr 2012 at 19:40.
I have now written to his alleged mother, my sister and another family member to express my serious concern surrounding this disturbing matter. Previously he tried to persuade me not to ‘mention to the family’ his approach which immediately sent more alarm bells ringing. I also took certain other measures in case this matter escalated to serious.
Apart from a few genuine relatives whom I know to be who they are and its always a pleasure to hear from, I am very wary of who I link to – especially over the internet.
I am not sure what these shadowy creepy people hope to gain. I have nothing to offer them whatsoever. Despite their use of add-ons and technologies in a vain attempt to be clever, they really are barking up a tree going nowhere. They might get a weird thrill – for me its a stupid, rather creepy distraction.
I genuinely believe that real GCHQ employees should do more to keep an eye on us and protect the vulnerable and public generally from the shadowy creeps that lurk the internet.
