Hacker ~ Blackmailer

Blackmail is menacing, silent, insidious.

Its powerhouse is human nature that, regardless of evidence to the contrary,

always prefers two adages

The Smoking Gun


There is no smoke without fire

I

An insidious individual
Vulgar
Evil and scheming
as that wicked Haman. [i]

A spiteful, vengeful man
envy, greed
his motivation
spite,
his fuel.

Activities always cloaked
in ‘righteousness’. 

II

Seeking to destroy,
he ‘befriends’. 
Seeking to hate,
he ‘loves’.

Seeking to encourage,
gossip, malicious rumour
he spreads.

III

Blackmailers seek intelligence
Intel is hard currency

Intellect, too, their ace of spades
By stealth they trace,
Kingship is in their gift
Theft with Joker four-sided

IV

Multi-faceted, their cunning
Several steps ahead
from up behind they creep,
and pounce.

Innocent to them means quarry.

Their activities concealed
they bestow glowing eulogies;
to place off guard
they shower gifts.

All the while
they sit ensconced their plot,
fingers deftly over the keyboard
fixed stare,
glazed look,
demeanour penetrating,
unnerving,
inwardly salivating.

V

At first sight the victim
denies his observation.
He stands : self-rebuked
and seeks to reassure 
his troubled mind
by cementing the friendship
still more!

VI

Now the blackmailer
moves in for the kill,
for his victim is, he preens,
at his most vulnerable.
 

‘Let’s play with him a while!’
‘Let’s make this successful,
righteous man suffer more.’ 
‘Let’s encourage him to believe
I am with him all the way!’ 
‘Let’s spin my yarn still more
and draw my victim in!’ 

VII

His tool is his benighted, twisted intellect;
his dependence on drugs
his diet of anti-depressants.
His props are website chat rooms,
profiles and images. 

How he adores the screen grab key,
the filter settings. 
How he gloats into the night hours
on all his ‘evidence’
that persuades his twisted mind
that he is right, the victim wrong.

How he despises the victim’s success. 
How he guzzles the drug of voyeurism.

VIII

To the victim's puzzled questions, 
the blackmailer is bemused;
bemusement just one short step
to indignant outrage 
culminating in charge of paranoia!

IX

How dare the victim ask
for proof of his working activities! 
How dare the victim ask
for his updated residence details
for the file!
How dare the victim
request the codes and passwords
to the victim’s own property! 

The blackmailer is
sick in mind,
sick in heart;
a split,
dual
or treble
personality, 
maybe even more;
at war with himself!
... his sickly diet
venom and deception.

X

The blackmailer’s tool?
The hijacked computer.
His delight?
To send emails
purporting to be his victim’s 
authorship.

Ever vigilant to stay ahead
he operates the rules of double agent.
The blackmailer heaps praise on his victim
until the moment of the strike
not yet the kill.

XI

He strikes.
Anger satanic.
Eyes turn grey then black and 
penetrate deep within his soul
sink further into his head 
and revert again to grey.

His sense of injustice
totally perverted, 
he seeks to justify his activities.
When challenged he is enraged.
He threatens again.

The master of subterfuge, 
he has a weakness
- his downfall!

His imprisonment
unseen, 
unimagined, 
for he cannot cast aside his belief
ironically genuine,
his own lie,
that he’ll never be caught!

[i] Esther 7 : 6 Queen Esther replied to the King, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked man - Haman!” And Haman stood in terror before the king and queen. [Berean translation]

April 28, 2009
Albert Dock, Liverpool

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© 2023 Kenneth Thomas Webb

First Published in Idle Thoughts by Spiderwize Publishers in September 2009

Queen Esther replied to the King, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked man - Haman!” And Haman stood in terror before the king and queen.