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Originally Posted by Verticon::
I have a situation where someone I know is mailing my family members and random friends information about my personal life that is not accurate. What can I do to stop them? This is causing some instability in my life having to explain what is really happening and family members are annoyed. Even friends say information is not true in these emails.
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I can understand that legal remedies could help but it is my experience they seldom do as it can become very difficult to define or prove what was meant or what the 'truth' really is.
You can threaten the person with legal action if they persist and tell them what your case is. If it is strong you may scare them off. If it is really strong you should be able to force them to write a retraction. That may be more effective than actually carrying through with legal action.
You can threaten to return the favour with an even bigger lie about them. Do not do this in writing - no witnesses!! Most of these types cannot take their own medicine, and live in fear others with do to them what they do. Again it is the threat that is intended to get results, not the action of actually doing it.
You can get the people who received the letters to write back and tell her they do not want to hear from her again. This will show they didn't buy it and it has in fact made them choose sides and you are it!
Or you can just pretent it isn't happening. Don't let her see any reaction. This is what I did and it worked great. Drove her nuts so she upped the anty which made it even more obvious she was the problem - not me.
I did nothing -she spend a lot of energy and time destroying her relationships and strengthening mine.
In the end, she did me a great favour by trying to destroy me!