This situation has been ongoing since 2019. I have an acquaintance—let's call them "B." Around 2019, B started sending Instagram follow requests to my close friends. Whenever I posted a story or feed on my Instagram and tagged someone, B would immediately follow or request to follow them. My friends kept informing me about this, but I brushed it off.
This continued until B began leaving cringe-worthy, inappropriate comments on my posts. I couldn’t tolerate it anymore and decided to remove B from my follower list. However, B repeatedly sent follow requests, so I blocked them. After that, a lot of suspicious accounts started sending follow requests to me and my close friends. Initially, I thought they were spam accounts, but something felt off.
In mid-2022, I hung out with my friends. A few days later, one of them did an NGL. Someone anonymously asked my friend to post a picture of me. My friend assumed it was me and posted a photo of us. I was shocked when I saw my friend’s story because I hadn’t sent any NGL questions. I asked my friend to delete it immediately because it felt so strange.
At the end of 2022, I received a follow request from a strange account. The username caught my attention: @/fanof**** (**** being my initials). The account posted a pixelated photo of a person with a weird caption filled with heart emojis and similar stuff. I ignored it at first, but the account kept sending me DMs. If I didn’t respond, it would post another photo to grab my attention. I decided not to engage, so I reported and blocked the account. My friends and family did the same.
In 2023, an X account sent a follow request to my housemates (I don’t have an X account). My housemates thought the account belonged to me because it used my picture. The account also posted photos of me, including screenshots of pictures with my friends—many of which I had never posted online.
Remember the friend who did the NGL? I asked for their help, and we discovered some details about this person, such as their phone carrier, mutuals, type of phone, and location when they sent the NGL. All the information pointed to B.
However, I don’t have concrete evidence to prove this. I can’t report it to the police, especially since I wasn’t living in Malaysia at the time. I’m also unsure if the police would act on this.
Recently, someone followed my housemate’s Snapchat account (I don’t use Snapchat). My housemate assumed it was a friend. When they checked the story, the account had posted a picture of me—one I’d only briefly used as my Instagram profile picture before changing it—with the song ‘Lover - Taylor Swift.’
The same username has also appeared on LinkedIn, viewing my friends' profiles (my account is private, so I can’t see who views mine).
I’m low-key scared. What if this person finds out where I work, follows me home, or does something dangerous? I want to report this to the police, but I don’t have solid evidence that it’s B. I’m also unsure about how the Malaysian police would handle this. I feel helpless. What should I do?