My toxic entitled friend starts spreading false rumors about me in a way that is seriously damaging to my reputation.

So I decided to get some revenge by quite literally ruining their lives in a way that they truly will never recover from.

Here's what happened.

So me and one of my best friends have been friends for nearly a decade.

For reference, I'm a 22-year-old male and he's a 21-year-old male.

We both share the same group of friends at a venue we both attended. But most of them were closer to him and had known him for longer than they had known me. We had, prior to this, revenge, had a disagreement with him claiming I had lied about something, which he wouldn't even tell me about, as well as me calling him out for being constantly hours late whenever I arranged to

spend time with him, and me finding out that he was leaving me out of group hangouts secretly.

Now, I found out that after our argument, he went around the venue spreading rumors, and

mind you, he could not find a scrap of evidence of anything.

So I asked the staff of the venue that we attended to ask him to stop.

But forgetting they were close

friends of his, they made up excuses which they refused to tell me and banned me from the venue.

And it was at this moment that my revenge began. First, I got in contact with a lawyer who drafted

and sent him a cease and desist notice. He initially responded to accuse me of faking the letter,

but was then sent a side email copy and asked by

the lawyer to advise to his position, at which point he left my lawyer unread. And it was on the next

day that I found out he was still spreading rumors. So, unknown to him at the time, I took screenshots

of years' worth of text messages and was given the phone number for the department of fraud.

As it turns out,

I had collected information about him taking study assistant payments for an entire year while

not attending class. This alone could mean that he has to pay back $10,000 plus dollars on top of

a substantial fine as well as possible prison time. Secondly, I had text messages from him using,

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