Melanee
United States of America#2REBUTTAL Individual responds
Thu, August 30, 2012
My name is Melanee Dark and am aware of who posted this ripoff report. An awareness that comes from being harassed by this person on and off for years. Unbeknownst to me she was a former client of my friend Don Boland, a licensed hypnotherapist. Apparently he released her from his care with a recommendation that she instead seek psychiatric support and this created a reaction in her that was, for lack of a better word: imbalanced.
Seeing my profile as one of his few online friends and seeing pictures of the two of us she assumed we were involved romantically (which we never have been we are just dear friends) and began to fixate on me. She formed false online personas and began sending me emails as these fake people. Though I had no idea that this person was connected to Mr. Boland in anyway I was wise to the fact that I was clearly being contacted by someone with fake pictures pretending to be someone they weren't and responded in kind. This infuriated this woman and the harassment escalated. Through some of her communications (which were directly threatening to do me harm at times) I gleaned the connection to Mr. Boland and called him. He wouldn't divulge her name as a matter of privacy but acknowledged that he believed I was being harassed by this former client whom he had found to have some mental issues that were outside the scope of his treatment capabilities.
Being a particularly savvy internet person and having a team of friends who are even more so we went to work to determine who she was by tracking IP addresses etc. When we determined who she was I simply posted her name and address on my Facebook page as a passive way of letting her know that her harassment was no longer anonymous.
Within a day I received confirmation that we were correct in our assumption of who was behind the harassment when the woman's son called pleading that I remove her name and address from my page. Mystery solved.
Sadly this woman has a fixation and continues to post randomly and continues to create fake accounts on various social sites. I am a social media manager for a Facebook game company and just today I noticed another fake account which she used to interact with my company's website. It's frustrating beyond belief as well as sad on account of her mental state.
Her mental issues notwithstanding, I don't appreciate my name appearing in this distorted lie she's presenting here on your website. It's false on every level including the nature of my relationship to Mr. Boland and I would appreciate its removal.
Thanks in advance.