Consider the 25-year-old Southern California woman sentenced to a year in jail Friday after being convicted of sending hundreds of threatening text messages to herself — in a bid to get her former boyfriend and his sister-in-law arrested by blaming them as the authors.

Jeanne Manunga had reported the texts she was sending to herself to three different police departments following her 2008 breakup. Orange County prosecutors told the Orange County Register that the defendant used a pre-paid cell phone she purchased in her former boyfriend’s sister-in-law’s name to send herself the texts.