Recently had a very interesting run-in with a guy my lady dated for a time. It started when I noticed she has been popping up on a bunch of scam sites. The descriptive text is always the same, so I was pretty sure it was one person submitting her. Freaked me out anyway, I was starting to wonder if I had her figured all wrong. I started contacting the admins at these sites, wanting to try to find out who was doing this and why. One of them actually handed out the submitter's email address, so I contacted him.
I started chatting with the guy, and at first it's typical scammer stuff. Note that she's NEVER pulled any of that crap on me. But this guy is saying that she demands more and more money, etc. After chatting with him for awhile, it becomes apparant that he's basically been shovelling money and presents at her, and of course she isn't an idiot, she accepted them. At some point she told him that she didn't want to see him anymore. But he keeps showering her with gifts, thinking he can buy her back. Then she tells him to stop, that she's seeing someone else (me) and he goes into a jealous rage. That's when he started submitting her as a scammer. This is a *gross* simplification of this entire debacle, so don't focus too much on these details. The point is that he marked her as a scammer, when in fact he'd been pouring money into her willingly, and he even admitted it. He also admitted to putting her on scammer sites as revenge for her "cheating," even though she'd broken it off with him before writing to me.
So finally I tell the guy I've heard enough, and to please stop bugging her. He flies into this fit, and starts demanding all his gifts back. I of course LOL'd, and to make a long story less long basically told him to eff off. But I guess just me contacting him has driven him over the deep end, because now he's calling her house and her cell phone in the middle of the night, he's calling her work, he's bugging her friends, and basically making her life a living hell.
There's a lot of morals to this story, but the one I wanted to point out is this: it isn't always the girls who are out to get the guy. Guys can be just as big a douche bag. Bigger even, because there's no way the girl can stop the harassment. Changing your home phone number in Russia is expensive and takes a long time, changing your mobile is also a pain, and of course there's no changing your office number. (yeah, she was stupid to give anyone that number.) She's not technical at all, so even trying to get her setup with a new email account has proven difficult. I can't be there to walk her through it, and she doesn't know what she's doing.
If there are any kneecap breakers operating in Canada, and you work cheap, drop me a line. :)