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Hoping to reach other people who have been victims of stalking on Fiverr so that I can compile our stories. If you don't want to share publicly, please message me.
 
Around 2019-2020 I started receiving multiple messages from different accounts, but obviously from the same man. They would start off with just "hi" and then he would often pretend to be a client before switching to sexually explicit messages. He even sent me pornographic images once. I've attached a screenshots of one of the conversations with anything sensitive or explicit blurred out. You can see he also attempted to find out where I lived so that he could "visit" me:
 



 
This screenshot is from the height of the harassment, when he was creating multiple accounts per day to message me. This obviously really scared me as it had suddenly escalated so I contacted my local police, who were actually very sympathetic and did their best to help. I let this guy know that I'd been in touch with the police and he *flipped*. He sent me probably 150 messages in one hour. He was 

 messaging me when the police arrived at my home, which was actually helpful to show how insane and persistent he was as they could see his unhinged messages coming in in real time.
 
Apparently this scared him enough that he decided to lay off, but nearly 5 years later he's back. I've received 5 messages from 5 different accounts in the last week that I 

 are him. We are starting all over again. He starts with "hi" - nothing else. One time he's messaged "I love you" multiple times. I've been reporting them as spam immediately, but I hate being paranoid when I get a new message on Fiverr. This is my job, and every new client is now a potential threat. 

 I've reported this to Fiverr CS but weirdly, I haven't heard back. I'm not sure if this just coincides with the switch to the chat bot (

this feature sucks - please restore our ability to contact CS directly with an email/ticket

) but it's surprising because as a TRS I usually hear back in 6-12 hours. 

 If you have a similar story please comment or message me. I'd like to hear how you're managing it, because it has me really stressed.
 
Thanks
 
Gwyn 

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