That time I was hacked: A warning
A couple days ago I received frantic text messages, emails, and private messages to all my social media accounts. My heart started racing so fast as I read them:
“Hi, I know you don’t know me, but my name is Jaime Hunt and your husband has been having an affair with me. Please call me back. If you don’t believe me, check your phone records. I’m so sorry, I didn’t know he was married. He has been going under the alias Jeremy Moeller. I’m so heartbroken. I have two kids with severe autism myself.”
You know, call me naive, but I never expected to be a target for a scam, and really didn’t think my blog would be hacked. I mean, afterall, it’s not like you’re going to get money out of me. I don’t even have ads on my blog because my blog is not and never has been about profits.
So…with that in mind, I decided to call her. Not because I thought my husband was cheating, but more to see what she had to say. Okay and maybe a part of me thought “oh my God, could he be cheating?”
It was clear to me from the beginning she never met my husband. Her dates didn’t add up, she didn’t describe my husband, and I knew that part wasn’t true. My blog was hacked though and so it had me thinking, who was Jeremy Moeller?
She sent me his twitter page and my family picture was his profile picture. Um…creepy!! WTF?? I report
ed him to Twitter.
I told Cody about all this when he got home. He called her, she answered, and gave him her sob story too about how she had been conned by Jeremy.
She texted me later that night crying that Jeremy keeps threatening her. She talked about being a single mom again with her two kids with autism and I started to get suspicious. I read autism blogs. I know autism blogs read me. I know what moms who have kids with special needs say, and she wasn’t saying it. She was saying what she thought I wanted to hear……but it wasn’t true. I knew it. She sent me pictures of two boys. PICTURES. I debated whether or not to post them here because I have a sick feeling she probably stole them from someone trying to do good by spreading autism awareness. I’ve decided not to further her sick perpetration. I found out later this person has many online aliases that she uses to attach herself to popular news stories, gain trust, and then hack the person’s personal accounts to commit whatever fraud she possibly can.
Isn’t it amazing what people can put their energy into? While all my energy goes into apraxia, some people put all that energy into conning other people. It makes me shake my head and kind of laugh. What a sad, sad woman she was must be.
Lucky for me, my husband is a software developer and manages my blog. Though my blog was initially wiped out, he had a backup through August 16th. Now that this happened, he has added a lot more security measures. Seriously though can you believe he even has to do that? It’s a freaking blog intended to spread awareness for a cause. Some people are so sick and pathetic. At first I was mad, but then honestly I just felt pity. I personally find it worse to be pitied and that is exactly what I have for this person.
Pity.
For all the challenges in my life, I have found blessings and light. Unfortunately for this person, she only lives in darkness and tries to feel better by attempting to pull others down into it.
In a last ditch effort she PM’d me under Kelly Hgege warning about Jaime Hunt..you know…herself. Seriously, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. After I blocked this name, that profile too “mysteriously disappeared.” I’ll keep adding names the more I get if she’s not given up yet. That way I can warn other people. Keep a running list for when shit like this becomes illegal and they can find her and nail her.
How truly sad though. How truly sad to masquerade as an autism mom. Maybe she too finds strength in these women as I do, so much so she has to pretend (badly) that she is one of them. She will never be though.
I assume she will continue her sad existence attempting to prey off of other people. I write this blog as a warning. As much good floods my newsfeeds each day, there is someone so desperately trying to find the hope we all have found in the midst of our own darkness, that they can think of nothing else but try to pull us all down.
My dad used to say, “When someone tries to pull you down, it’s to make themselves feel higher.”
Unfortunately for her she doesn’t know me. People like her only strengthen my resolve. People like her only make me fight that much harder. People like her don’t understand I’ve already been knocked down and the wind blown out of me. Apraxia…autism….or any dx given to your child will do that to a person. So yes, we’ve been knocked down but we’re all still standing.
