As if that was not enough, on 19.09.2024, I was also registered without my consent to a newsletter, as can be seen in figure. When I asked back where they found my Email, I got no response. Since those kinds of identity thefts do not have some direct damage – as money loss – they can continue to occur. Filtering them out as spam means that real newsletter subscriptions and real registrations (ones performed really by me) can be lost. After taking advice from a professional in psychology, it was also confirmed to me that this is a way of an individual who has lost the control to regain back the power by inflicting fear in me that he/she is obsessed with me. According to this professional, a person taking my identity has “gone beyond the rails/limits of his/her personality, taking the identity of the victim and doing what he/she wanted the victim to do”. This person cannot come to terms with the fact that I left academia, I work in the private sector and don’t want to do reviews/publications, unless I have a good offer or as a hobby and he/she has gone that far to create artificial data that I do want to do that to feel validated.
