by ir » Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:11 am
A bit of real life story, connected to current events. <br> <br>--<br>A year ago, I started my blog. A few months after that, a lady wrote to me, with interest in one of my posts (analysing the resurrection of Hebrew and the "Hebrew Only" policy of ZIonist Israel, as contributing to militarism) and general issues. She presented herself as an ISraeli art student (don't laugh please) staying in Milan. I cannot explain the interaction but she more or less bewitched me, via internet, telephone calls and something. SHe took hold of my schedule and life. Manipulative, smart and persistant. She officially said that a certain journal would be inetersted in publishing some of my stuff (that she will translate) and we also started doing a visual/text project. everything was fishy, but for some reason I couldn't stop her. I suppose she knew how to play on my ego, my "dreams", it was a combination of luring and second guessing my thoughts. <br><br>It grew more intense, and then she said she is coming to ISrael for a visit for a week. We were supposed to meet, but then she cmae up with many excuses and we didn't meet and she flew back. But were still chatting a lot and going on with the "project". When I suspected her once she made a real scene and gave me the email of the editor. I emailed him (a general polite inquiry) and he never wrote back. This was a red flag but she said he is bad in emails, and I took it, for some reason. <br><br>Then one morning i get up with a pain in the back of my neck. I felt a wound like a shot, like someone injected me with something. i was sick, and could hardly stand up. this happened again after two weeks, and for the whole month I was incapacitaed and had menstrual bleeding all the time. I had the suspicion that I was drugged with a hormone that made me blabber a lot and lose control. She became more controling, called every day., became familiar with everything I do through the day, some of her speech was double tongued. It was a night mare. THen one day, it was the end of May last year, i had to go to the bank to deposit a check. The manager rushed to me and said hi, I hear you are flying to Italy in the end of the week. My heart pounded, and I asked him to explain. He checked his PC and said that actually there is somehting strange, that another woman came, with my name precisely (both last names, quite rare here), and said she was an american citizen (and Israeli too) and going to Italy, and he was confused and thought it was me. Then he said, "well, you look much prettier than her". <br><br>I then knew that someone was using my identity, and it is connected to this art student. I emailed her angrily and she didn't deny. It was as if she is brazen enough, and admits she was doing all this to use my identity. I wasn't sure how it was connected. I was very sick, and then she wrote she is flying to Warsaw for a month, nad never wrote or called again. -SHe also said she was holding a US citizenship together with the ISraeli. Then I realized that for some reason I didn't take the minimal precautions when meeting a new person, I didn't ask her who she was, her family in ISrael etc, which was actually quite available. Only later I found out that her father is a lawyer who is actually doing business with that bank and is involved in LIkkud politics and what not. A very rich and powerful family, involved in right wing politics. Also I did remember that at some point when I became suspicious, she gave me the email of the alleged editor of the journal (a real person), and I emailed a laconic inquiry/hi email and never received response. She said that he never bothered with emails, this happened twice, with another email person she gave me. <br><br>A week later, the newspapers here had a small add that Israel is running a little war with the Italian government over a greek man who is suspected of spying for ISrael, which was requested by Greece to be extradited, and ISrael objected strongly ! and then later about the arrest warrants against the CIA agenst in connection to the "rendition" kidnaps. I had a sense that there was an interest to use my identity. I wasn't sure what's going on, but in the past, some 20 years ago, i went to Italy with my then boyfriend, and had the strong impression later that he had used me as cover for something fishy, government work of dubious and dark connection. I stopped seeing him after this trip, without actually pinpointing the cause, i never trusted him again. The trip was weird, he kept having weird disappearances with excuses, whenever we had to cross a border or board a flight he said he had hemmorhoids and that I should do all of it, check in etc, and he was not talking and just following me; he met with dubious people and changed itineraries, but since he spoke Italian and French fluently and I DON'T I was never able to know what is going on and he gave weird excuses. <br><br>I felt that again, like in 1986, my identity was stolen. I was very scared and angry, and the only thing I did in connection to this matter was - 1/ emailed this lady that I will inform her to Italian police and so they can deport her. 2/ I did notify my suspicions to Italian lawyer in Milan who communicated further and was willing to take on more of the case, but I didn't want to pursue it.<br><br> ====<br><br>I know it sounds crazy, but it happened this way. I wonder if anyone ever experience this kind of identity theft. I felt as if that twenty years old betrayal (by boyfriend) came back to haunt me, and someone needed to pick up that old stolen identity for some reason. But since I was no longer available as a trusted dupe this time, someone just "stole" my identity via internet/bank forgery and some tricky email work (like getting me to email someone, so it appears on internet check that the cover of the other person is true). <br><br> <p></p><i></i>
