Scam or harassment?

I turn my phone off for a night now. Got notifications that she tried to call me at 1:20am last night.

As I said before, after surgery I struggled already with sleep, now this made it worse and it's 5th night I was awake at 3am.

At least I caught up with all the news in the morning with lovely coffee.

I went to the 1st Gardai. So he received the official complaint from 2nd Garda station and finally wanted to take my statement.

I have printed all call logs, text messages and sent him over the Whatsapp messages.

He took an official statement and lodged it into the system.

But I don't have a much hope. He told me it will take few weeks to contact the operator to get details, if any details are in their system.

I told him that you need a valid proof of ID and address to buy a sim card, and she has bought 4th sim card (I got another call yesterday feom 4th number). He was suprised and said good to know, so maybe he will be able to retrive some details 🙈

At the end he told me that he will ring those numbers tomorrow trying to get some details from her, like telling her she won the lotto. I was like wtf she will know it's scam, I said tell her maybe that you are calling from her broadband that there is a better speed, new offer or whatevee. No one would believe over the phone that won in lotto 🙈

But he told me one thing, if this person really wanted to hurt me, would have done it already.

And it looks like revenge. So changing number won't do anything.

3 numbers she called me from are Tesco mobile. I have asked their customer service, U need a proof of ID and address to buy sim cards.

I would guess they pay someone to go and buy sim card, that person registers his/hers details, gets money and later don't remember who paid him/her.

Yes it was true and he was serious.

Yes, my appointments are connected to this accident. It took time for everything, including cancelling my surgery 3 times in UHL due to problem with no beds.

Gardai asked me if I know anyone who could want to take a revenge on me as it looks like revenge. I told him about this accident and claim process. Few comments above I told about my suspicious that all calls started around the time when his insurer decided to settle the case so the defendant lost.

That's what I think. And that's also why I think changing number won't help as they might get my nee number or find a new way to harass me. But without proof I can't tell it for sure that's why I needed Guards to finally take care of this case.

Btw. I have read today an article of harassment in Ireland. According to the survey, less than 50% of people reported it. Most of those people had very negative experience with Gardai, were told same as I, that probably they can't do much, change the number etc.

Fear is very powerful tool. Some of those people said they had to take different ways to walk to work/school, change number, change house or even move out from the town.

Why victims of harassment should change numbers, live in fear because our system allows for this harassment.

So what if I change a number and they find a new way to harass me. What would be next ? Sell the house and move somewhere else?

I spent 3 weeks living in fear.

I have received the letter last week that my case was transferred to different Garda station. They have A Victim Crime Department there and are more experience in harassment cases, also got details of Gardai assigned to deal with my case. No update since then.

No more calls for the last few days. So Gardai maybe rang her and she got scared or maybe thinks that I have change a mobile number, as I finally blocked all calls from Unknown numbers (other numbers that are not saved on my phone too, and already received the letter from the bank, they tried to call me). Worked anyways.

I don't know if the claim case is related or not. All started in same time. When Gardai said it looks like revenge and asked me if I could think of anyone, I told him of this guy and insurance claim process. If is him or not, I don't know. Guards will try to find out who was harassing me for over a month.

I won't answer any more questions about the accident. I've read already that what happened to me is karma, and all I want is money etc. It wasn't karma. He was just stupid, driving well above speed limit, in really bad weather conditions and playing on the phone. And no money will bring me back my health and time I lost, things I missed on.

If I hear any update on my case from Gardai, I will update here.

I have rang the Gardai that is assigned to my case to see if there is any update. He hasn't even started any investigation on my case. So 2 weeks since he got the case and nothing done. While on the phone to me, he was going through all documents for the first time asking me all the questions again which I gave an answer to already.

Starting to understand why people don't report harassment, there is no real help from Guards.