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Scammer. KarlOwnThomas7809.

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TheWeirdoAgain60 Mon 13-Jul-26 12:10:39

I'm not sure if this is the right section to post this in. Please feel free to move it to the right position or delete.

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This is Karl Owen Thomas. All females on here who are on Instagram, be warned, for several months, he's pestered me each and every day, day after day, week after week, month after month, with never-ending follow requests. Often multiple times a day.

Always with the same photos but different ways of spelling his name, and with numbers in various combinations.

I've taken photos of his latest accounts and posted them on Facebook and Twitter.

He seems to have some type of twisted obsession with me, and I don't know if he's doing it to other females or not. I also don't know if he's pestering women on other social sites.

I've blocked and reported for bullying and harassment each and every time he sends me follow requests; nothing is ever done, and he never stops. He just keeps changing his name spellings and numbers to send me follows. I've tried contacting Instagram, but they never reply and never do anything to stop him.

Please be careful, ladies!

BlueBelle Mon 13-Jul-26 12:30:42

Can’t you shut down your account and start a new one with a different name spelling or something you can tell friends what and why you’re doing it because that sounds very very annoying

Sago Mon 13-Jul-26 12:44:03

You need to remove this post immediately and change your insta.
You have given far too much away.
Your insta shows a photo of yourself, the name and the name of your husband.

Cossy Mon 13-Jul-26 12:46:35

Thanks for the warning but please heed Sago’s good advice

Sago Mon 13-Jul-26 12:49:38

I now know where you live.
I have learnt about your business hobbies etc.
You must turn all your and your husbands accounts to private.

Sago Mon 13-Jul-26 12:58:13

Also remove what you have put on X and FB.

All I had to do was click the link then put his name in Insta, it immediately came up with your account naming you husband etc.
Your accounts give birthdays, anniversaries and infringe you business.
You are leaving yourselves wide open to fraud.

Sago Mon 13-Jul-26 12:58:59

Information not infringe

Sago Mon 13-Jul-26 18:18:21

I am bumping this in the hope the OP sees it as she does not accept private messages.

Please take action immediately to secure your accounts.

I got all your info, home address, business address etc.

It took 5 minutes.

Beechnut Mon 13-Jul-26 18:24:35

By what TheWeirdoAgain60 posts on the GM thread I don’t think she has a husband or business of her own Sago

Beechnut Mon 13-Jul-26 18:34:15

I have not clicked on the link.

BlueBelle Mon 13-Jul-26 18:39:17

The plot thickens 🤔

Sago Mon 13-Jul-26 19:05:46

Beechnut

By what TheWeirdoAgain60 posts on the GM thread I don’t think she has a husband or business of her own Sago

I have PM’d you.

MT62 Mon 13-Jul-26 19:48:20

Ha sago you should have been a detective 🤣

Sago Mon 13-Jul-26 19:56:12

MT62

Ha sago you should have been a detective 🤣

IKWYM but seriously it’s so easy.

One link gave me access to all that information.

LucyAnna5 Mon 13-Jul-26 19:59:39

MT62

Ha sago you should have been a detective 🤣

I’m not that tech savvy, but Sago’s right - lots of personal info easily available there.

MT62 Mon 13-Jul-26 20:17:28

Do you find all that info out by checking someone’s FB account.
I’ve never had a FB account so I don’t know how it works.

Sago Mon 13-Jul-26 20:24:56

If you put the scammers name into insta it flags up the Weirdos post about him on her instagram account.

This account gives her name, husband’s name details of their business, birthdays etc.

If you then google their names and their home town, the addresses come up via newspaper articles, planning applications etc.

It doesn’t take 5 minutes.

I didn’t look on FB, I’m not a fan!

The OP does not accept private messages so I can not do much else.

TillyTrotter Mon 13-Jul-26 20:30:25

Please all, protect yourselves from this exposure on social media platforms.
Lock your security down!

eddiecat78 Mon 13-Jul-26 20:32:56

Unless the OP constantly lies on the Good Morning thread she doesn't have a husband or a business

Sago Mon 13-Jul-26 20:48:11

eddiecat78

Unless the OP constantly lies on the Good Morning thread she doesn't have a husband or a business

Well I’m not the one telling lies, its all there for the world to see.

Sago Mon 13-Jul-26 20:52:03

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Sago Mon 13-Jul-26 20:53:27

I’ve just reported the above I thought it was a PM.
Hopefully it will get the whole thread removed b

Jaxjacky Mon 13-Jul-26 21:20:15

Very bizarre Sago agree about GM.

MT62 Mon 13-Jul-26 22:35:29

Sago

If you put the scammers name into insta it flags up the Weirdos post about him on her instagram account.

This account gives her name, husband’s name details of their business, birthdays etc.

If you then google their names and their home town, the addresses come up via newspaper articles, planning applications etc.

It doesn’t take 5 minutes.

I didn’t look on FB, I’m not a fan!

The OP does not accept private messages so I can not do much else.

Blinking heck 😳that really is a lot of information.
You have done the right thing in warning her.
Some folk are really that daft!
I have warned friends about putting correspondence in the bin with personal information on the letters, prescriptions, etc, still they do it.
Really can’t do any more than to warn them, then leave them to it I guess.

MT62 Mon 13-Jul-26 22:45:32

Whilst on holiday this week, this guy was trying to get people to sign up to funding the disabled.
(I have seen this scam on YouTube).
They want cash, or credit card details & the number off the back of the card. So I was frantically flapping my hands to warn this young couple (as she was giving all her details) that it was a scam.
Next thing he had me pinned up against the wall, whilst jabbing his pen into my stomach.
My 80 year old mum told him where to get off 😳
Bit daft of me really to get involved but I hate these scammers so much.