tricked by an online predator. how safe am i?
2 nights ago this guy from tiktok/whatsapp got me on facetime under a fake job offer paying $50 a day. while we were on the call he had me cut holes in a shirt and put it on, and he kept making me make the holes bigger for 'energy' and stuff, while asking me if i felt “hotter” or “colder” after each movement. the holes started small and i purposefully didn't cut holes over where my boobs would be, but it still made me super uncomfortable.
i honestly thought it was a legit paranormal thing at first (cut me some slack once a guy on tiktok sent me $350 to stand outside in the mud barefoot) because i really needed the money, and i actually had to ask chatgbt (pathetic i kno) about what he was making me do to fully realize it was an online predator. yesterday he kept texting me being all casual talking about publix and local horror legends like the devils tree (BTW NOT A LEGEND. AN ACTUAL PLACE A SERIAL KILLER USED TO TAKE GIRLS TO MURDER THEM). it takes place super close to where i live. stupidly i told him the city of where i lived.
he kept aggressively asking like 4 times if i was still on the phone with my friend throughout our convo. then he asked what my 'fit' was yesterday and that was it for me. i'm not terrified of a recording, i'm just terrified of what his intentions actually were with all of this.
he knows the city my apartment is in along with the city my grandma lives in (where im staying now bc im genuinely afraid to be alone). the closest thing to an exact location he has on me is that my parents live in the townhouses behind a specific restaurant, and he knows that neighborhood but they have a ring camera and left yesterday for 6 months.
also im 90 percent sure he was in his car during the call, i think i got a glimpse of his dashboard.
at one long point his audio got really really warped. during the call it was definitely odd but i honestly thought he was gay and he wasn’t asking anything too crazy. toward the end i got more and more uncomfortable, bc of what he was having me do. at worst he got a recording of a snippet of my boob out of a hole or something but i don’t even care about like that going around or anything.
another thing is that he hung up the call super abruptly and told me to go to bed the second i wasn’t doing what he wanted quickly or correctly enough because i had taken my ativan and became notably more delayed.
i’m just really creeped out. sorry if this sounds like a huge run on sentence, im just trying to give as much information as possible that i think could be relevant. i do not want to go to the authorities bc i told him a lot of stuff over text that was personal about my own struggles in the past with certain substances.
im just not comfortable with that. i guess i wanted a bigger pool of ppls takes on this since i cant sleep for the life of me and i want to know how “safe” i really am right now, and what you think i should do. he also was really trying to get me to meet him in person in isolated areas like the woods or my apartment, claiming he lived in the same area as me.
EDIT: i’m literally not a minor. a predator is someone who uses manipulation tactics to get what they want—it is not exclusive to minors.
im disgusted with how mean some of these comments are. i came for help not to be pummeled. i have been having trouble filling my bipolar meds and have been doing all sorts of crazy shit lately i normally wouldn’t. think before you comment because you don’t know what’s going on in somebody’s life. i come here looking for help/advice and i get slandered being called “too dumb” to use the internet. nothing like this has ever happened to me before. i’m genuinely disgusted.
for the record, obviously i already blocked him on everything.