Her username here had no connections at all to her Instagram account which is why it was even more upsetting that she had somehow been ' tracked' down! The messages she received from Emily were directly connected to her username here and there was no doubt about that. Just to be clear again, apart from commenting here, she at no point had commented on any of Emily's posts or sent her a dm via Instagram so the fact that Emily thought it was ok to attack her via her private dms was not acceptable, and tbh the distress the messages that followed caused because they were scary and absolutely disgusting was really upsetting to see.tbh I doubt it even went that deep. I’m guessing her tattle username had similarities to her social media username, as it’s been mentioned here that Em has contacted people who have never commented on her. My guess is that em and her ma put 2 and 2 together and get 5.
GDPR legislation came into effect from 2018 and it protects people from having their IP address (this lie that influencers spread explained here) basically handed out. It would take a law enforcement professional to submit a production order before personal info of that kind would be shared - and they’d have to obtain it from tattle AND Instagram for them to be able to accurately target people. That’s why it’s so suspect they were able to hunt down that poor Uni student. How exactly where they able to legally obtain her personal information…? An IP address isn’t that incriminating, it’s just a series of numbers and can be changed by restarting your router, after which the number is reassigned to another user. Em herself doesn’t seem to understand exactly how they hunted down the catfish.
indeed, it sounds as if potentially Em and her mother are behaving unlawfully. Targeting and messaging someone online “for the purpose of causing distress” is against the law under the Malicious Comms act.
Not sure if anyone else remembers but Emily mentioned on her Instagram and via the podcast that she had found and read this site and she also alluded to feeling better once she had seen the faces of the people who post here. It was around that time she went after my friend.