Following The Path Of Least Persistence


How To Get Revenge Online
by John threat

Ever had someone just piss you off and you had to get back at them? Turning the other cheek wasn't going to be enough. Or at least that isn't the other cheek you wanted to give them. But how do you get back at someone without them finding out? Thanks to the Internet there are several ways to give someone their just desserts without ever having to leave your home. You just need a credit card and a healthy dose of loathing. Retribution shouldn't cost more than $19.95.

An Eye For an E-mail

People are becoming increasingly dependent on e-mail as a common way to communicate. As a result one of the easiest ways of getting revenge is to flood their e-mail accounts. A week or more of productivity can be destroyed by signing up someone's e-mail address to high volume mailing lists which can send hundreds of messages a day. A lot of mailing lists don't ask for verification before they start spamming an address. If you sign someone's e-mail address to a cellular phone or a two-way pager where they actually pay per message you could really cause some trouble. Imagine their shock when they are in a meeting receiving messages from "Bisexual Mothers On Crack Support Group" e-mail list.

You could also use online sites that allow you to call people anonymously. Long Distance sites like DialPad (www.dialpad.com) allow you to make calls for free over your computer, effectively allowing you to prank your target endlessly with very little hope of find out who it is. If you have a few dollars and you don't want your voice to be recognized you can use IMbot (www.imbot.com), which will call your enemies with a computerized voice that will say any message you want. It's guaranteed to scare almost anyone. You could also set these services up to ring someone's phone repeatedly. There is nothing like a person's phone ringing twenty-four hours a day continuously to fry their nerves.

There are some less disruptive but equally disturbing ways to pay someone back. Companies like DogDoo.com (www.dogdoo.com), allow you to anonymously send a harmless looking package containing a hermetically sealed plastic bag of steaming hot dog shit. They don't keep any records and you can personalize you contempt with cute note. You can even squeeze this out on a modest budget too. Start with just a small piece of shit if you are not sure.

Do onto others?

In an extreme example of online vengeance, an e-mail was forwarded around that tells the story of a guy at a college that found out that his girlfriend was cheating on him with various people on campus, including one of his frat brothers. He asked his frat brother if he could hide in the closet so he could videotape him having sex with his soon to be ex. He caught them red-handed on his camera engaged in furious session of coitus! He took photo stills of the videotape and labeled it with her personal information and circulated it around Internet.

People used naked photographs as blackmail for years, but with the advent of the Internet the dirty laundry can be disseminated faster and among a wider group of people than just showing some Polaroids on the corner. The e-mail has become something of an urban legend. The scenario certainly is plausible and it could happen to you. The moral of this story of course is to only cheat on people who don't have Internet access.

Copyright © 2010 John threat