{"id":12319,"date":"2026-05-16T03:41:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/12319\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T03:41:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:41:16","slug":"melbourne-womans-chilling-encounter-with-serial-pest-salesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/12319\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne woman\u2019s chilling encounter with \u2018serial pest\u2019 salesman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Melbourne woman working alone on Monday afternoon was confronted by an \u201caggressive serial pest\u201d who was captured on doorbell camera footage telling her to \u201clock the door and jump in a lake\u201d after she refused a service.<\/p>\n<p>Mikaela Borg was at work at about 3.45pm when the man, dressed in yellow high-vis, approached her at her warehouse in Melbourne\u2019s west.<\/p>\n<p>She says he was trying to sell her an unsolicited service, but his approach left her in tears.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am terrified to be in my own workplace,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to news.com.au after a video documenting her experience went viral, the entrepreneur said she was shocked by how many others had identical stories about the same man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am absolutely overwhelmed by the amount of people who have experienced this exact same issue with this man spanning across many years. He must be stopped,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Have you encountered this man? <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/lifestyle\/real-life\/news-life\/melbourne-business-owner-among-dozens-reporting-vile-serial-pest-salesman\/news-story\/mailto:rohan.smith1@news.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Email rohan.smith1@news.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the video, Ms Borg says she was targeted by the \u201caggressive\u201d salesman who walked into her warehouse, tried to enter a private, upstairs area and would not leave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday an incident happened at my warehouse,\u201d she said through tears.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis man walked in while I was alone and refused to leave. He offered me a discounted &#8230; service and when I told him I was not interested and asked him to leave he became very aggressive and tried to go upstairs into my office area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe started verbally abusing me. Once I finally got him to leave, he sat out the front and was harassing me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason why I am making this video is because this man is a well-known serial pest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to news.com.au, Ms Borg said she was packing orders in the back of the warehouse alone \u201cwhen I heard someone walk through our door which I thought was my partner returning after leaving around an hour before\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The man, she says, \u201cwalked straight past our reception, through our curtains that lead to our warehouse and straight towards me\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe asked me if I wanted a car service and when I said \u2018no\u2019 and asked who he was he asked to go upstairs into my private office area,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told him there was nobody else here and that he needed to leave which is when he became aggressive, raising his voice and asking me why I\u2019m so rude. He said he wasn\u2019t leaving until he checked upstairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter repeated times of asking him to leave and finally getting him back to the front of the warehouse, he started going upstairs while yelling and swearing at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last thing I said to him was \u2018you can\u2019t walk into people\u2019s warehouses like this\u2019 and he told me to jump into a lake and repeatedly rang our bell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>News.com.au approached Victoria Police for comment. A police spokesperson said a 46-year-old man from Mernda was \u201cinterviewed and released pending summons\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice have interviewed a man following a report of trespass at a business on 11 May,\u201d the spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is alleged a man entered a warehouse and aggressively touted a business service about 3.40pm. When the offer was declined by the sole occupant of the premises, the man became aggressive and refused to leave after being told to. The man eventually left the premises.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>News.com.au has been sent vision of the interaction, as well as a second video \u2014 which you can watch above \u2014 showing him screaming and swearing at another group of people. <\/p>\n<p>On social media, Ms Borg shared screenshots of messages she had been sent by dozens of individuals.<\/p>\n<p>One of them read: \u201cHe barged into our office in the past and was extremely aggressive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another read: \u201cI\u2019m absolutely certain this is the same cretin that came into my office in Melbourne a few weeks ago, walking into offices and trying to intimidate people. He terrified a group of women he cornered in their office and I ended up dragging him out.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>A third message read: \u201cThis guy came into our office \u2026 was politely declined despite his aggressive attitude. Then he ignored all protocol and just walked through to our warehouse to harass our other employees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday he did this to multiple people in one area,\u201d Ms Borg said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter finding out his name, a quick Google search shows that this is a repetitive pattern that he has been doing for over 12 years and has put multiple people in fear of danger in their own workplace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is currently working for [businesses] around Melbourne. Despite these companies knowing exactly what he is like, he is still working for them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m hoping that by making this video people are aware of this man and if they are approached by him they do not engage or that they ring the police immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>News.com.au has tracked down a number of online threads accusing the same man of similar behaviour in Victoria and Western Australia. In total, the conversations \u2014 posted at different periods during the last 12 months \u2014 drew more than 1000 comments.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Borg\u2019s video was shared more than 5000 times and received more than 3000 comments. <\/p>\n<p>Former AFLW star-turned-commentator Abbey Holmes was among those to reach out to her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh god the fear in your voice is heartbreaking. I hope you\u2019re OK,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Another woman wrote that she had been confronted by the same person on the same night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOMG this happened to us last night,\u201d she wrote. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe walked straight in &#8230; Thank goodness we had men around, he walked back out fairly quick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In March this year, <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/lifestyle\/real-life\/dozens-of-women-and-schoolgirls-targeted-by-serial-creep-in-north-melbourne-as-posters-issue-warning\/news-story\/0cfab69fee47dbb3e30ac9774179f138\" title=\"www.news.com.au\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"0cfab69fee47dbb3e30ac9774179f138\" data-tgev-label=\"lifestyle\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a different Melbourne community bonded together to issue public warnings about a different man<\/a>, one they said was approaching women and girls in public and making disparaging remarks about their outfits.<\/p>\n<p>The man is accused of approaching females in cafes, on the street and on public transport around North Melbourne and telling them their \u201cpants are too tight\u201d and their \u201cskirt or shorts are too short\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Posters were erected around North Melbourne urging members of the public to stay vigilant.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"poster-img\" src=\"https:\/\/content.api.news\/v3\/images\/bin\/5e3d14d5f5cd289fe1f54909bccbf42e\" data-sctrack=\"op-poster-img\" alt=\"Tourist calls out 'serial creep' in Melbourne\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>News.com.au spoke to a handful of young women from the area who described the interactions as sexual harassment and who were genuinely worried the behaviour could escalate.<\/p>\n<p>The situation was so serious that a local primary school had reportedly warned parents about the man approaching children.<\/p>\n<p>In one particularly alarming incident, the man allegedly approached a father who was dropping his daughter off at a local kindergarten before telling him the child\u2019s shorts were too short.<\/p>\n<p>A Victoria Police spokesperson told news.com.au that police are \u201caware of reports of a male approaching people in the North Melbourne area making unsolicited comments\u201d, but said \u201cthe man has been spoken to by police and released pending further enquiries to determine if offences have occurred\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Read related topics:<a class=\"topic_tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/topics\/melbourne\" data-tgev-container=\"story-topic-links\" data-tgev-label=\"Melbourne\" data-tgev-order=\"1\" data-tgev-metric=\"npv\" data-tgev=\"event10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Melbourne woman working alone on Monday afternoon was confronted by an \u201caggressive serial pest\u201d who was 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