Important Note

[Elle]

Alright. We were down for about an hour and I’m going to explain why.

 

As I was just beginning to fall asleep two hours ago at 2am, I received a phone call from an unknown number and groggily answered it. It was someone who identified themselves as Bridgette, asking for the owner of LanaBoards.

Confused and taken aback and also half asleep, I just nervously laugh and ask what this person needs. They hang up.

They then text me saying that they are a social media analyst for TAP Management, Lana’s management, essentially informing me that Ben was in talks of having the site shut down for recent leaks, discussion, etc. Saying that this was Lana’s personal request.

For over an hour and a half, this person proceeded to fill me with stress and anxiety through text message regarding this “issue” with the site and not answering my calls saying that Ben would be reaching out to me personally tomorrow to speak further.

Though I was initially skeptical that this was a prank after they called asking for the LanaBoards owner due to the suspicious number (I even texted my personal best friend who knows I run this site and is infamous for her prank calls that don’t typically target me who confirmed she wasn’t behind this), the gravity and severity of the situation that they informed me of once they texted me after they hung up lead me to treat this as a better safe than sorry situation. When I asked how they received my number as Lana’s management doesn’t have my current number as it’s changed since I last spoke with one of her managers years back, they said that Lana herself provided a list of fans they thought may have managed the site, and they listed my ex-girlfriend of 3 years ago who is a fellow prominent Lana fan in the community as someone they reached out to that eventually put them in contact with me. (Note, I have no idea if she’s actually involved with this and highly doubt that she is as it would be very out of character given how we left things at the end several years ago, but that only added to my concern as well as my suspicion.)

Everything that they asked of me I immediately cooperated with, including temporarily pulling the site.

Then, after an hour and a half of this anxiety inducing madness, they tell me this is a prank. They then identify as someone named Dez.

This was not funny.

It was very immature and inappropriate for someone to call me posing as a member of Lana’s management asking about LanaBoards at 2am on a Monday morning ahead of a very busy workweek for me as I’m spending the next 5 days working 14 hour days on set.

 

I am posting this here to just say, if this is someone from the site, do not ever do this again. I would also appreciate if you could please reveal yourself and how you got my number, as I’m really concerned about how LanaBoards members/Lana fans are receiving my personal cell phone number that they feel free to call to harass me for a prank at 2am.

If you are someone who has my phone number, which I know is a couple of you here, please do not give it out without my permission.
I keep a relatively small personal circle, and whoever is behind this has relative knowledge of my life regarding the fact I own this site and the name of my ex-girlfriend that I haven’t spoken to in years. This just grows my concern of my number and personal details being passed around.

 

If there ever is a serious issue regarding the site, LanaBoards has a contact email and social media pages that work just as well.

& if you’re going to prank me like this, choose a better time.

 

Thanks x

 

 

Spoiler

If you are or know the person who is behind these messages and the phone call, please let me know immediately.

 

[annedauphine]

I'm just happy you're safe rn Elle! Thank you so much for everything you do for this site. Where can we donate again?

[Jaeden xx]

The way I thought that the site was shutting down for a second  but anyways this isn't good just glad that you are good rn!! 

[BartenderDeco]

i hope you're feeling better now and i hope this never happens again

[Blue Ink]

And we all laughed until we couldn't breathe anymore... what a fun prank indeed.

 

I hope you'll be able to find out who's behind this, Elle.

 

 

[Crazy Husband Thief]

This is beyond scary and extremely alarming! @Elle have you considered changing your phone number, so that this won’t happen again?

Also, do you have your phone number listed on your social media somewhere? A while ago I found out that my phone number was linked with my Facebook account and that people managed to get my number because of that.

[sjatib]

This is absolutely disgusting. Hoping that whoever did this will get soon to grow up and learn some basic notions regarding respect, privacy and how not to incur in potential legal violations.

 

Hope that you won't have to deal with stuff like this again as well. Have a nice week, Elle.

[Deadly Nightshade]

Unacceptable behavior that crossed the line..

Hope you are feeling better now 

[That Venice Bitch]

Somebody here has to know a Dez in the community. Or if they gave a fake name, somebody knows something

[GeminiLanaFan]

What the actual fuck? I hate pranks but this is way worse! I can’t imagine living this situation.

i am so sorry for you, @Elle. You didn’t deserve that. I have nothing but respect for the work you do here. I can’t believe someone would do this to you. Sending you all my love and hope it never happens to you again. 
❤️❤️❤️

[rural legend]

That sounds awful! They have definitely crossed the line and I hope they realise that. 
 

[bluechemtrails]

@elle You still have the phone number of this person, so it must be possible to find out who it is. Or did this "Bridgette" had some accent? Perhaps the origin of this person could be narrowed down. The time of the call is also very strange.

We have to strike back, no one robs the sleep of our Elle or scares her in that way!

 

[Alison by Slowdive]

what the fuck! hope ur okay and managed to get a bit more sleep <3 

[Actor]

People r sick. 

[The Siren]

I hope you changed your number
I fear for your safety luv

[details]

lanaboards and phone numbers haven't been a good match lately... hope ur ok elle! and please consider changing your number again 

[SalvaWHORE]

i am so glad that this was just a prank & our family isn't going to be removed.

Take care @Elle change your number sis, this is not even funny. This is invasively disgusting.

[Beautiful Loser]

What the f, do people really have nothing better to do than disturb people's lives and sleep at 2 AM??? This is unacceptable, I'm so sorry, Elle. You really have to deal with way to many shitty things for this community, I would've quit being an admin after an hour.

[Dominikx4]

you should hand these texts over to the police. Impersonation is a crime, at least where I live.

[boom like that]

This actually scared me for a second.. what the fuck  This is awful, I'm sorry you had to deal with that shit. If this were real this would've been such a nightmare come to life..

 

I hope you find whos behind this cause going as far as getting your personal number, if it were me I would be really upset and anxious on how they obtained it