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ST20231012_202392713379 Kua Chee Siong/ ocharm21/ Profile of of Eve for a feature on online harms legislation and how the law can be improved to protect victims at the ST studio on Oct 12, 2023. Interview with Eve (not her real name), a victim of online harassment. She was cyber harassed by a woman who was jealous of a relationship she had with a mutual friend and received hundreds of threats over text and some public posts on Facebook and Linkedin defaming her.

Eve was cyber harassed by a woman who was jealous of a relationship she had with a mutual friend.

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SINGAPORE - Eve (not her real name) was relentlessly spammed on social media with profane messages from an unknown sender, as part of a vendetta against her by a woman jealous of her for seeing a man.

It started in April 2022 with a handful of private messages in Tellonym, a question-and-answer style social media app. Within days, it grew to dozens of messages a day, leading Eve to believe she was being personally targeted. 

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