A man hacked into a woman’s email account and sent explicit photos of her to a member of a “swingers” website, a court heard.
Gordon Sime included the woman’s mobile phone number in the message, telling the user “give me a text if you like these ones.”
Dundee Sheriff Court was told the woman was known to Sime but moved address without telling him where she was then staying.
Sime, a first-time offender, bombarded her with phone calls and text messages and was later spotted outside her home.
Depute fiscal Eilidh Robertson said: “At around 2.15pm on April 4, 2014 the woman received a text message from a mobile number she did not recognise. The message was confirming receipt of a photograph in an email.
“She initially thought there had been a mistake and enquired as to what the person was talking about.
“The person identified himself as the user of a “swingers” website and claimed that he had been sent an email containing sexual photographs of the woman.
“The man told her which email address had been used and she was alarmed as the email address was indeed one of her own.
“She attempted to log into this email address, however the password had been changed.
“She was able to answer the security questions and gained access.”
The court heard the woman found a message in the sent items folder containing private and explicit photographs.
Her face was not recognisable in the pictures but she recognised them as being of her.
Attached to the email was a message which read: “Hope you like these ones, give me a text if you like them,” followed by her mobile telephone number.
Police raided Sime’s home and analysts found that he had hacked into a number of the woman’s email addresses from his laptop.
Miss Robertson said: “The email containing the photograph of the woman had been sent from this laptop.
“Further evidence was found on the laptop of the accused accessing dating profiles held by the complainer and her Gumtree account.
“Again, this was done without her knowledge and consent.”
Sime, 63, High Street, Campbeltown, Argyll, admitted sending emails to another person via the woman’s email address containing explicit images of her along with her mobile phone number.
He also admitted engaging in conduct that caused the woman fear or alarm by repeatedly sending her text messages and making phone calls and accessing her email address without her authority in order to obtain current information about her between September 1 2013 and April 28 2014.
Sheriff Tom Hughes deferred sentence until February 10 for reports and a restriction of liberty order assessment and imposed an interim non-harassment order.