Important: This resource provides general information, not personal advice. Every situation is different. The actions suggested here may not be safe in your specific circumstances — particularly if the person causing harm could notice changes to your devices or accounts. Always consider your physical safety first.
If you need personalised support, contact 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732) or your local specialist domestic violence service. If you are in immediate danger, call 000.
This framework is under active development. View full limitations & methodology.
| ID | Name | Description | |
| SAFE-T-0094 | Contact After Blocking | Creating new accounts, using alternative platforms, borrowing others' devices, or finding other channels to continue contacting victim after being blocked. Demonstrates persistent intent to circumvent victim's boundaries and platform safety features. | |
| SAFE-T-0102 | Contact Bombing | Signing victim up for large volumes of spam, unwanted subscriptions, mailing lists, or services to overwhelm their communications and cause distress. May also include signing victim up for politically sensitive, embarrassing, or compromising services. | |
| SAFE-T-0095 | Coordinated Harassment Campaign | Organizing or inciting multiple people to simultaneously harass victim through pile-ons, brigading, coordinated reporting, mass messaging, or targeted online mob behavior. Perpetrator may directly recruit participants or create conditions that provoke organic harassment from communities. | |
| SAFE-T-0092 | Direct Threat Messaging | Sending threatening messages to victim via any digital platform, including text messages, emails, direct messages, voice messages, or comments. Threats may be explicit (threatening violence, harm, or consequences) or implicit (veiled references to harm, ominous statements, or threatening imagery). | |
| SAFE-T-0096 | Doxxing | Publishing victim's private information (home address, phone number, workplace, family members, daily routines) publicly or to targeted audiences with intent to enable harassment, stalking, or physical harm. Doxxing weaponizes personal information by removing the victim's control over who has access to it, often resulting in coordinated harassment,... | |
| SAFE-T-0100 | Impersonation Harassment | Creating fake accounts impersonating victim to damage their reputation, relationships, or employment. Fake accounts may send messages to victim's contacts, post inappropriate content, engage in harmful activities, or create the appearance that victim is behaving erratically or antisocially. | |
| SAFE-T-0093 | Persistent Unwanted Contact | Repeatedly contacting victim despite clear requests to stop, across one or multiple communication platforms. Volume and persistence are used to exhaust, intimidate, and demonstrate that the victim cannot escape the perpetrator's reach. May include hundreds of messages, calls, or contact attempts per day. | |
| SAFE-T-0098 | Platform Abuse Reporting | Weaponizing platform content moderation and reporting systems to get victim's accounts banned, restricted, or content removed. Perpetrator files false or exaggerated reports about victim's content, coordinating multiple reports to trigger automated enforcement. Silences victim and removes their online presence. | |
| SAFE-T-0103 | Proxy Harassment via AI | Using AI tools including large language models, voice cloning, or text generation to create and distribute harassing content at scale. AI enables perpetrators to generate personalized, varied harassment content more quickly and in greater volume than manual methods, and may disguise the perpetrator's authorship. | |
| SAFE-T-0099 | Public Humiliation Posts | Posting embarrassing, mocking, degrading, or humiliating content about victim on public platforms. Content may include unflattering images, private information, personal struggles, or fabricated scenarios designed to damage victim's social standing and cause emotional harm. | |
| SAFE-T-0101 | Review/Rating Attacks | Posting false negative reviews of victim's business, professional profiles, or services across review platforms. Damages victim's professional reputation, income, and career prospects. May coordinate multiple fake reviews to appear credible. | |
| SAFE-T-0097 | Swatting | Making false emergency reports (bomb threats, hostage situations, active shooter calls) to provoke armed law enforcement response at victim's location. Swatting creates immediate physical danger to victim and household, causes severe psychological trauma, and may result in injury or death from police response. | |
| SAFE-T-0163 | Weaponised Welfare Checks | Repeatedly calling police or child protection services to conduct welfare checks on the victim, using state agencies as a harassment tool. Reports are technically 'concerned' but the pattern is punitive — using volume and frequency to exhaust, intimidate, and signal that the perpetrator can deploy the state against the victim at any time. Distinct ... | |