I had a different post prepared to share today, but I’m going to save that for another day because I don’t feel the timing is appropriate now. The article I wrote is about True Crime in my opinion, as well as a share about my own scary past.

So today’s post is just short with a question. I recently received a horrid and life-threatening comment on one of my recent posts, my writing tips post to be exact. I’m grateful that I don’t allow comments without my approval, and this one came direct to me in comments, not even spam. It was quite lengthy, threatening me, hopped over from LinkedIn, told me how he’s going to r@pe me and kill my family, he knows where I live, and if I promote anywhere, I’ll deal with his bosses. There were some choice words about what he’s going to do to me if I don’t promote with his bosses.

I was horrified at what I read. I checked in with a close friend (author) sharing what I read, and she told me she too had received the same! I’ve been mulling this over, and since there are so many cyber bullies and scammers, we never know how serious a threat can be, so I’ve decided rather than ‘just be cautious’, I would inform our Canadian RCMP cyber fraud department. And that I did to no avail after three hours on hold for the non emergency police. That was after wasting an hour online filling out my complaint on the RCMP fraud page. Except you waste your time filling out everything five times, only to find their website isn’t functioning so you can’t submit after filling out. It’s no surprise so many people die before they can get help. Yup, that’s about the speed of overwhelmed, under-funded Toronto with all of our social services and cuts – thanks to Doug Ford.

What my question is today for all of you bloggers and authors, have any of you received such a threat in your WordPress comments – or on social media, for that matter? I would like to know if this may be a group author target or if I have more to worry about.

Thank you.

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