by Red Aces » Sun Jun 02, 2013 8:21 pm
Day 3/4:
Weekend came yesterday and I was at work all day, interacting with others and enjoying the beautiful weather outside. I rarely thought about the scam and the video. I did have a few moments of relapse where I was thinking that people had seen the video and they could see a hole right through me to what had happened. I felt like I had the plague or something. But then I would snap out of it and realize that nothing has happened and that no one has seen this video. I tried to tell myself that my mind is going to be my own worst enemy for a while.
It has been helping more and more to read posts and see that more and more scams are taking place. Not that it is a good thing that others are having this same thing done to them, but that these scams are so common that my scammer has probably already forgotten about me and that I even existed online. I have not been online nearly as much other than to browse the forum via my phone. I am still in the process of deleting out my email addresses and replacing them with a single solid email address different from the one I have used for all accounts online. I think that it will put my mind at ease that I have protected myself further by distancing myself from this scammer. It is very true that the scammer has control of your mind by making you your own worst enemy. If you can figure out a way to overcome your "fear" of this scam then you will be fine. I have just come to grips with the fact that even if something bad happens and the video gets out, that I just have to live with the consequences and life can and will go on.
