How to protect yourself from being stalked

There are many things that you can do to protect yourself from being stalked while you out of you house or out of work. You need to be sure your safe when you at your care walking around in the street, mall, or where ever you may be.

  • keep you car locked, including trunk, hood and gas cap
  • when you park you car make sure you park in well let open areas in plain view of everyone else
  • before you approach or enter your car check around and inside your car. if possible have someone walk with you to your car.
  • if at all possible don't travel alone

How to prevent cyber stalking

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You always need to be aware of what you post on the internet.  You really want to be careful about the information you post and if you would want everyone in the world to see it.  Social networking web sites are making it easier to protect yourself from online predators.  There are several things you can do to protect yourself. some these things are:






  • making your online profile private so only the people you know can see it. Also you need to be cautious when adding new friends to your profile. If you do not know them or not have mutual friends that you know don't add them
  • along with making your profile private you also need to limit the amount of personal information you share. Things like the city your live, the place you work, or anything else that could tell complete strangers where you are should be left off your profile.
  • when posting pictures to your profile you want to avoid putting up pictures that allow people to know where you work or where you live.


How to protect your home

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A person home is where he or she is supposed to feel the safest.  There are many things you can do to ensure that your house is the safest it can possibly be. There are many basic things you can do that a lot of people often neglect to do as well as some extra things you can you to make your home even safer. there are also some precautions you can take to further protect your self if you have a stalker or suspect you have a stalker.











  • Always make sure your house is locked and avoid leaving spare keys outside the house.  Before leaving a key outside was smart but now it could the first thing a stalker looks for is your spare key. It would be better to leave a spare key of your home with a trusted neighbor.
  • install an alarm
  • make sure the outside of your home is well lit and especially around doors and windows that are visible from other people
  • have your roommate answer the phone and doors to find out who the person is and make sure it is not the offender.
  • make your telephone number unlisted if you have a land line telephone.
  • have your phone company block your number so it will not show up on caller ID so your number does not show up on other people phones so that you can keep your phone number private.
  • change your mailing address or get a post office box. If you leave town for an extended period of time have your mail stopped or forwarded to someone else so that no one cannot get you mail. If you are home and you get any unusual mail don't open it and call the police and have them investigate it.

ways to protect yourself at work

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Being personal problems to work could be a problem to your employer.  If you work in a bigger, less personal organization they might not care that you are being stalked and may tell you that you need to take care of you legal problems and not being them to work. Other places might be more concerned and do things to help you protect yourself while your at work. Regardless you need to take steps to ensure that you are safe while you're at work.




  • if your building has security let him not the situation and leave a description or picture with security so that if they see the offender they can keep him from entering the building and detain him so that you can alert the authorities.
  • don't park in a place with your name, park you care somewhere else in a well lit area.
  • if you can let your coworkers or answer machine screen your personal calls.